Professor Helen Bailey is a senior academic with an over twenty-five year career in international higher education, research and academic leadership. She initially trained in contemporary dance and received a professorship in 2010 in recognition of her research in the area of performance, choreography and immersive technologies. She has worked at a number of UK universities and is experienced in executive leadership and management, international higher education, partnership development, research leadership and curriculum innovation.

Helen is Vice-Principal (International) and Professor of Interdisciplinary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London. In her previous role at King’s College London she was a member of the Principal’s Office with responsibility for the leadership of global business development and the establishment of multi-faculty strategic international partnerships.

Helen has a deep commitment to creative industries, digital humanities, integrating arts and innovative technologies and the role of the arts in place making. Her current research activity focuses on the development of models for preservation and widening access to practice-led research in the arts. She is passionate about dance education and participation from both a professional and personal perspective.

Helen holds a PhD in choreographic practice and immersive technologies and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate of King’s College London.