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.
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Mind the Gap: Live Screening 30th October 2025
Mind the Gap, an 80-minute feature film by award winning film maker Ricardo Barker, is aimed at white educators.
Five years of the FACE Excellence Award: Last chance to enter
Five years of the FACE Excellence Prize at Graduate Fashion Week FACE (Fashion Academics Creating Equality) is proud to announce that applications are now open for the fifth year of FACE Excellence Prize 2025.
Creative UK presents Creative Diversity: A Hub of EDI Case Studies
Create Diversity launches with a year-long communications campaign that will amplify and celebrate stories of great EDI practice that have been shared from across the creative industries from companies
See My Academic FACE: Unveiling the Barriers to Equity in Creative Education
See My Academic FACE report: Unveiling the Barriers to Equity in Creative Education
How to curate a love-led symposium? Neurodivergent artist-academics show a way
Written by Kai Syng Tan. This is an abridged version of an article ‘What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?’ published on 29/11/2024 on the Society for Research into Higher Education blog.
Tentacles Making Fists: Re-Imagining and Neuro-Futurising Leadership, with Dr Kai Syng Tan
Kai Syng Tan is an antidote to the stale musty stink that is emitted from the corridors of Russel Group and Ivy League universities.
Curriculum Review Call for Evidence
Submission from the Creative Education Coalition
FACE X RCA Conversations: Thoughts, Souls and Spaces
Taking place on Thursday 7th November and Friday 8th November 2024 FACE (Fashion Academics Creating Equity) are thrilled to collaborate with Royal College of Art to present: Decentering Spaces, a live two-day event taking place at the RCA.
Creative Graduate Mentoring Space
Creative Graduate Mentoring Space recognises the leap from graduating university to working within the creative industries and aims to support recent graduates with sessions run in collaboration with West Yorkshire Print Workshop in Huddersfield.