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CHEAD and Design Business Association White Paper 2026

CHEAD and DBA have produced a joint report on our shared vision for HE and Industry Collaboration. This report is the result of six roundtables between design leaders and creative educators. Over 30 CHEAD members were engaged in this piece of joint policy making resulting in a series of recommendations for Government,  Industry and the HE Sector.

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Published 29.06.26
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A Review of the CHEAD Creative Leadership Programme

What I valued most was the way the course framed leadership not as something external to creative practice, but as part of it. As an illustrator and designer, that reframing was invaluable.

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