Patricia Ambrose

Patricia Ambrose is Director of the National Network for the Education of Care Leavers and Governance & Research Adviser at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, an independent research and membership organization.

She has spent most of her career in higher education policy development, including seven years as Chief Executive of GuildHE, the representative organization for specialist and smaller higher education institutions. From 2007-to 2011, Patricia was an Associate Director at SQW Consulting, leading much of their higher education research and evaluation work. In this role, she directed a diverse range of projects covering topics such as graduate employability, teaching, and learning enhancement, widening participation, language learning, internationalization, governance, and sustainable development.

Patricia is committed to the role of specialist arts universities within UK higher education. While at GuildHE, she helped to establish the UK Arts and Design Institutions Association (UKADIA), and more recently served as a governor at Norwich University of the Arts (2006-2015). She is currently chair of governors at two Islington primary schools and an Associate General Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.

Patricia holds degrees from the Universities of Reading, Manchester, and London and a PGCE from UEA. She is an alumna of the Top Management Programme for Higher Education and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.