 He was head of the Department and School of Psychology from 1993 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2006 he was one of the university's deputy vice-chancellors (Senior Deputy VC, 2005-6).His major research interests were economic socialization, the psychology of money, and the psychology of taxation, though he also worked on environmental psychology and the general issue of the social psychology underlying rule compliance.Webley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to higher education.