CHEAD provides a voice for and on behalf of higher education art and design in the UK four nations advancing knowledge and understanding in the sector and promoting the sector’s interests to others. We carry out research, scan the policy horizon, brief our members, facilitate networking opportunities for senior staff from within and outside HE as well as helping to shape higher education art and design policy on our members’ behalf. We facilitate specialist internal networks supporting art and design research leaders, Subject Associations, and HE gallery leaders.

We are delighted to welcome four newly Trustees to our Board of Trustees: Dr Rod Adams, Northumbria University, Roger Bateman, Sheffield Hallam University, Professor Alistair Payne, Kingston University and Professor Richard Sawdon Smith, Norwich University of the Arts. Further information and profiles on each can be found on our goverance page.