Arts and Design Expertise and Evidence Base: how can we use it? CHEAD's policy roundtable series with the All Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, Realising Art and Design Research in Policy Making Decisions, has published the first in a series of reports summarising how we can use the art and design evidence base in policy making. The purpose of this session was to explore current issues contributing to the under utilisation of existing Art and Design Research and how we can develop existing case studies flexibly to ensure that wider application of these examples works efficiently and reaps the benefits. This session brought together expert academics and organisations to advise on how this evidence can be properly developed into policy making decisions.
Realising Art and Design Research in Policy Making Decisions
"The coaching skill base is so expansive and transformative": Introducing Coaching Tools to Technical Leaders
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.
CHEAD Sustainability Think Tank
Join us for our annual update on sustainability activities across the CHEAD network.
Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper
We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025: Civic and Place: Exploring the Role of the Civic in Art and Design which brought together researchers, educators, practitioners and community stakeholders to examine how art and design can shape, sustain, and animate civic life.The paper is co-authored by:Dr Rowan Bailey, Director of the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield.Evelyn Wilson, co-Director of National Centre for Academic and Cultural ExchangeDr Rhiannon Jones, Associate Professor (Civic Practice). Head of Civic and Communities, University of Derby.Professor...