Elaine is a Senior Lecturer and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE). She has forty years of teaching experience, having spent 12 years teaching English in schools and 28 years teaching in Higher Education. She joined the University of Wolverhampton in 2001. Elaine leads (and has led) a number of Postgraduate courses in the Department of Management and Leadership in UWBS, located within the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences. Elaine also co-leads the IoD Mentoring scheme for level six Business School Students. She is also involved in Employee Engagement initiatives at the University.

Additionally, Elaine has extensive involvement outside the University in an advisory capacity: in policing, in health and in social care, as she is a member of a wide range of Boards, Committees and Advisory Panels, and a Town Councillor (in Staffordshire). Her hobbies include writing (short stories, poetry and blogs), reading, walking, theatre, and French culture.

Leadership and Management, Transformation and Change in Policing, Health Care Leadership and Medical Education. Learning and development. Dementia care, dementia-friendly communities, and carer support.

• CIPD
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Mensa

• Master of Arts: Manager Development & HRD, Birmingham City University 
• Associate Member CIPD
• Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies, Birmingham City University 
• TDLB Assessor Units D32/D33, Telford Area Training
• MICA, Institute of Consumer Advisors
• Postgraduate Diploma in Consumer Affairs, Halesowen College of Higher Education
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education, West Midlands College of Higher Education (University of Wolverhampton)
• B.A. (Hons) English, Birmingham University

SAGE Encyclopaedia of Global Business 2009 (contributor: Culture and Cultural Norms)

SAGE Encyclopaedia of Green Business 2010 (contributor: Gross National Happiness)

SAGE Encyclopaedia of Sports Management 2010 (contributor: Ethics and Ethical Conduct)

BLOG (monthly) on Staffordshire County Council website (Social Care and Health Directorate) –  ‘Kirkham-stances’ 2009 - 2015

“The Empire Strikes Back?” in NAPO Journal 1987

Various short stories, poetry & prose in Mensa “Folio” Writers’ Magazine, 1994-2011.

Teaching interests

• Leadership and Management
• Learning and Development/HRD
• Medical Education 
• Health Care Leadership
• Organisational Behaviour and Work Psychology
• Change Management

Corporate and community engagement

Chair of the Independant Advisory Group (Staffs Police), and Regional NAIAG Board Member (Since 2019)

Burntwood Town Councillor 2015 - current

Former PfCC Volunteer - Safer Neighbourhood Panel

Former Vice Chair of Staffordshire Adult Care Panel

Former Dignity in Care Board Member - Staffs County Council

Founder Member Royal British Legion – National Memorial Arboretum Branch

Former Member of Soroptimists - Lichfield

Former Writer of a monthly health and social care blog – Kirkham-stances – on Staffordshire County Council’s website

External academic roles

Member of Mensa since 1983 (Academic Sig, Writers’ Sig and Politics Sig)