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For its 6th Anniversary edition, Arts Thread is delighted that Monaco Foundry and Google Arts & Culture are collaborating on the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025. ✅ This proactive initiative has been created for all creative students graduating this year in...
Please find below a downloadable copy of CHEAD's REF Advocacy Briefing Document. We hope you can use the REF Advocacy piece internally as a prompt to your colleagues to continue to support Art and Design, and practice-based research, more strategically. The piece has...
A blog post from CHEAD REF Forum Co-Chairs Kamini Vellodi (RCA) and Damian Sutton (Coventry University) following the CHEAD REF Forum event, hosted by the University of Westminster (Feb 2025). The CHEAD REF Forum blew the dust off the “how to do REF” instruction...
This blog has kindly been provided by Matt Dowling CEO of the Freelancers Club. Matt recently spoke at our Creative Graduate Futures event. Let’s address the elephant in the lecture hall: Generative AI is no longer a futuristic concept - it’s here, reshaping the...
The German Association for Art History, together with the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), will organise and host the 38th German Congress for Art History. The congress will take place in Munich from...
CHEAD are a founding member of the Creative Education Coalition, a group of organisations from the higher education and creative sectors, who are deeply concerned about the future of the creative talent pipeline, and the lack of engagement in...
Blog by Matt Dowling, Founder of the Freelancer Club “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” Some sunny words from the Terminator there as spoken in T2: Judgment Day. Sticking with the doom and gloom, are you currently working for one of the many universities...
The DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) Conference is back for 2025 with some exciting developments. The DEL Conference has expanded to discuss a broader range of topical conversations in art, design and higher education. In addition, DEL is evolving the conference into...
A trip to Margate – CHEAD Subject Association Alliance at The Margate School (Part 2) A reflection by Dr Jacqueline Butler, CHEAD Trustee and Chair of CHEAD's Subject Association Alliance Photo credit: The Margate School On 19th February 2025 CHEAD held the first in...
CHEAD Subject Association Alliance at The Margate School (Part 1) A reflection by Uwe Derksen, Director, The Margate School Photo credit: The Margate School On 19 February, CHEAD’s Subject Association Alliance held it’s first in-person event in Margate, in...