This spring Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) have teamed up with Kingston School of Art to gather lived experience from educators up and down the country. As all conscious leaders are aware, Black academics make up just 2% of the academic population...
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Policy updates from CHEAD AGM
Here is a short summary from Sandra Booth , Director of Policy and External Relations, CHEAD. Reporting on 2023 as presented at the AGM, and planning for the remainder of 2024 with a general election looming. This past year, and the current, has been one of turbulence...
Introducing Arts Thread – CHEAD Conference 2024 Sponsors
Arts Thread Portfolio Plug-in These are the key reasons why we feel the universities/colleges should adopt the Arts Thread Portfolio Plug-in; Institutions use Arts Thread technology to power student portfolio display Clean and searchable layout with filters Infinite...
Love-bombing Higher Education and beyond
This blog has kindly been provided by by Kai Syng Tan Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Portrait of author being interviewed by Japan Broadcasting Corporation as juror of Yamagata International...
Women in Leadership working paper
Read the working paper published after the 2023 Women in Leadership event, bringing together the outcomes from the break out sessions and conclusions, institutional policy ‘asks’ and provocations. Bailey, R, Booth, S, Dormor, C., Jones, R. (2024). Women in...
House of Lords Debate
The contribution of the arts to the economy and society Headline Summary · Lord Bragg introduced the debate demonstrating the important contribution of the arts to the economy and society alongside the challenges facing the creative arts sector. · Shadow Culture,...
New funded PhD opportunity: call for artists, curators and cultural practitioners
This funded PhD opportunity aims to critically examine the intersections between colonialism, climate crisis and mass human migration. D6: Culture in Transit is looking for an applicant with a passion to build on their decolonial approaches to curatorial practice and...
A state of the art creative education? Place-based learning and making, inclusivity and innovation
This blog series and has kindly been provided by Vanessa Corby Professor Theory, History and Practice of ArtYork St John University This is the concluding piece of the series In 2018 Oli Mould prefaced Against Creativity by arguing that ‘creativity can be used to...
The State and art & design education in England: Part Three, exclusion past, present and future
This blog series has kindly been provided by Vanessa Corby Professor Theory, History and Practice of ArtYork St John University While scratching my head about how to bring these blog posts to a close I kept coming back to an important exchange with a new student last...
CHEAD 2024 AGM Notice & call for Trustee nominations for the 2024-27 term
The CHEAD Annual General Meeting will be held during the Annual CHEAD Conference 2024 taking place on Tuesday 19th March 2024, at Juniper Auditorium, V&A Dundee, 1 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ. Elections for CHEAD Trustees will be held at the forthcoming...