Professor Elaine Thomas is Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts.  She is currently a Board member of the Quality Assurance Agency, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Higher Education South East.  She is a member of HEFCE’s Research & Innovation Strategic Advisory Committee, Sustainable Development in Higher Education Strategic Review Steering Group and Burgess Implementation Steering Group.

Elaine is also a member of GuildHE and the United Kingdom Arts and Design Institutions Association, the Council for Industry and Higher Education’s Creative & Digital Task Force and Universities UK’s Creative Industries Steering Group.  A practising fine artist, Elaine also has experience in arts and museum policy, having been Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ulster Museum and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.