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?

Towns across the country can now apply to become the first UK Town of Culture. Every town in the UK has an opportunity to bid for a £3m investment to tell its local story at a national level. Two runners-up will receive £250,000 to deliver elements of their bid.

CHEAD is delighted to announce we have formalised our partnership with ACID, strengthening our commitment to championing and protecting creative innovation.

Call for contributions. NAFAE Conference - It Takes a Village to Raise An Artist: Local, Trans-Local, Global. Taking place in Rochdale, 24 April 2026.

Ve Dewey talks to Catherine Glover, keynote speaker on the Programme and Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, about vision, collaborative shaping, and, in her view, what Higher Education needs now.

We’ve just taken a major step toward reshaping how UK universities prepare students for the future of work.

Sandra Booth, Director of Policy and External Relations at CHEAD discusses the Creative Leadership Programme with Dr Catherine (Cat) Glover, Assistant Professor and Northumbria University Distinguished Teaching Fellow.

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