Robin Banerjee is the University's inaugural Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global and Civic Engagement, and Professor of Developmental Psychology. Between 2019 and 2023 he was Head of the School of Psychology.

Robin first arrived at the University of Sussex as an undergraduate student, and stayed on at Sussex to complete his doctoral studies on the topic of social, cognitive, motivational, and emotional aspects of self-presentation in childhood. He went on to serve as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and took up a position as Lecturer in Psychology in 2002, progressing to his current position as Professor of Developmental Psychology. Robin took on his first university leadership role as Head of School in August 2019, in which capacity he represented the Sciences on the University executive team. In September 2023, he became the University's first PVC for Global and Civic Engagement.

His research focuses on the social and emotional development of young people, and he works closely with practitioners and policymakers in the areas of education and mental health. He founded the Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness, an interdisciplinary research centre focused on illuminating the nature of kindness and its impacts on people and communities. Professor Banerjee recently led the world’s largest ever public science project on kindness, The Kindness Test, in partnership with the BBC.