Lisa Stansbie

Professor Lisa Stansbie is the Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, Culture and Society at The University of Worcester and a member of the University of Worcester Executive Board. She has academic oversight of the schools of Education, Business, Law, Humanities and Arts. Prior to joining the University of Worcester Lisa was Dean of The Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Lisa is passionate about the values of widening participation, diversity, equality, inclusion and academic freedom and as an individual who has taught at Secondary, Further and Higher Education levels, is an enthusiastic advocate about the opportunities that higher education can offer.

She has previously been involved in external work through trustee and (non-executive) Chair positions. In 2018, she was appointed as the Chair of The Board of Directors for Axisweb, a national independent arts charity. She is also the Co-Chair of The National Association of Fine Art Education and a fellow of The Royal Society for Arts. Lisa has been called upon to input into advocacy and policy work nationally for a range of organisations and institutions around the value of creative education and economic recovery for the creative sector post-pandemic.

She brings to the board a wide variety of experience of the higher education sector, via consultancy and external work with universities nationally and internationally, specifically around creative education, research and global engagement.