The Chancellor presides over meetings of the Court and confers degrees and other awards at graduation ceremonies and is appointed by the Council, the governing body of the University.
The current Chancellor is Professor Dame Jean Thomas FRS FMedSci FLSW, who was appointed by Council in January 2018 and reappointed in January 2022. She is is an alumna of Swansea University, Professor Emeritus of Macromolecular Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and immediate past Master of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
Dame Jean said: "I feel extremely honoured to have been reappointed as Chancellor from 1 January 2022. I value greatly my connection with the University and it was with considerable pride that I recently attended the Awards Ceremony for the Queen's Anniversary Prize awarded to the University for 'transformational work in finding new applications across the world for solar technology'. The good news of this award marked an excellent start to 2022, and I look forward to celebrating more successes across the breadth of the University's work in the future. It has great strengths in very many areas".
