Ashleigh Pearson is a qualified ILM coach and a member of UAL’s coaching network. Her current research interests include critical thinking through making and facilitating interdisciplinary, embodied and dialogic thinking spaces in art and design HE. In 2024-25, Ashleigh was a participant in the CHEAD Technical Leadership programme. We invited her back to introduce coaching to this year’s cohort and offer them some tools.

Director of Membership and Operations, Joanie Magill interviewed Ashleigh to discuss coaching and the tools she introduced to the cohort and why they matter.

Written by Sian Vaughan, CHEAD Co-opted Trustee (RIKE Alliance) and Director of Research for Art, Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University

"Creative Education fuels the economy - and the nation's cultural life."

The University of Gloucestershire currently has three Lecturer Vacancies.

The UAL Report 'Who Gets To Be An Artist?' was produced with Artquest and looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, using survey data from their ongoing Applied data partnership to consider whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible. 

Do you know someone doing outstanding work in visual arts engagement, participation, or learning? 

The Marsh Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement celebrate the hard work and dedication of colleagues working within visual arts participation and engagement.

Mind the Gap, an 80-minute feature film by award winning film maker Ricardo Barker, is aimed at white educators. 

Please find below details of a forthcoming conference in New Delhi, India (February 2026): ZEITGEIST ADA 2026 

From the Foundations, is a planned series of events taking place from 2025 to 2027 in recognition of artist and educator Joe Woodhouse (1971–2022)