CHEAD is the association of educational institutions with degree or postgraduate provision in art, design, creative media and related disciplines.
CHEAD 2026 Annual Conference
Navigating Change: A Creative Leader's Role
Teesside University
Creative Education Manifesto
The manifesto outlines eight key asks which, if actioned, the coalition argues will help protect the critical talent pipeline that feeds the UK’s successful creative economy.
Resources for Embedding Skills for Planet
A space for practical resources to help designers, design educators and organisations that employ designers to embed the green design skills listed within the Skills for Planet Blueprint
CHEAD and ANdEA Study Programme 2025
CHEAD were delighted to win mobility funding from the British Council GREAT! Campaign enabling us to take twelve CHEAD Members to France for four days to meet with French schools of art and cultural organisations.
Hear what delegates had to say about their experience, and their plans for future collaborations and joint projects.
Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper
We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025.
Free online RCA IN SESSION Talk: Futures Through Design
What does the cross over between design and foresight tell us about the world we live in today, and how we might want (or urgently need) to change it?
CHEAD Sustainability Think Tank
Join us for our annual update on sustainability activities across the CHEAD network.
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.
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