Announcing The FACE Summit: Thursday 13th October 5-8pm (GMT) & Friday 14th October 11.30 am-7pm (GMT) a FREE event to platform research on identity, power, representation and belonging. This is an intersectional fashion platform led by Black and Brown Academics for all. Blog post kindly provided by Caryn Franklin, FACE.This event is for EVERYONE The FACE Summit offers inspiration and practical teaching aids for required culturally competent delivery of education. The FACE Summit is both a live and online event hosted from the heart of London at Central St Martins in Kings Cross. Students especially welcome. This Summit will...

Cultures of Place, a new festival programme from the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. Working in collaboration with Temporary Contemporary and Kirklees Council to deliver a range of events drawing on research from across the school including: art, architecture, creative writing, cultural studies, design, English literature, fashion, film, history, media, music, performance and textiles. This will run from 24 June – 4 July. Everything is free to attend, and projects range from music made with the light from stars and workshops showing you how to build an electrical circuit into fabric to exploring the canal...

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 underutilisation 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 post has kindly been provided by Luigi Galimberti | Project Manager Business of Fashion, Textiles & Technology Partnership, University of the Arts London www.bftt.org.uk Announcing the first report originating from the Business of Fashion, Textiles & Technology Creative R&D Partnership (BFTT, CRDP), led by University of the Arts London, as part of the Creative Industries Cluster Programme, delivered by the AHRC. This initial report, Mapping the UK Fashion, Textiles and Technology Ecosystem, aims to identify opportunities for investment, research and development, business growth, job creation and tackle skills gaps in the UK fashion, textiles and technology (FTT) ecosystem. Based...

Blog kindly provided by Sarah Waterman Project Manager, Design & Make Learning & Participation - ROH Bridge Programme Manager Essex Royal Opera House. In 2010 the Royal Opera House moved its set production facilities from east London to the new Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production workshop at High House in Purfleet, on the north side of the Thames Estuary. Every original set design for The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet is now built and painted in this workshop space by our expert team of craftspeople, before being transported to ROH HQ for construction on the huge stage. Once the...

CHEAD is delighted to announce a new partnership with Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) which will facilitate a two-way exchange of resources. Recently, FACE took part in a CHEAD members event Creative Resilience: Art Adapts and have posted a blog piece reflecting on the event and the aims and future plans of FACE which we have reproduced here: Power and Privilege 1st December 2020 One of the outstanding themes of 2020 has been the recognition that education has a responsibility to prioritise race equality and anti-racist action. Once we accept (and stop denying) that inherent in our socialisation around identity...

Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Policy. We would like to update members of the changes we have made to the Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Policy which is available here Equity_Diversity_Inclusivity_Policy_Slides_FINALand Inclusivity (EDI) policy resulting from the leadership actions of our EDI working group who have been advising our Board of Trustees on this critical issue. Over recent months the Board have committed to foreground Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity within our Values, Strategic Plan and Programme of Activities. Members can expect to see a step change in how we provide support to activate meaningful, structural and sustainable change. Throughout the 2020/21 Membership...

Art, Media and Design Higher Education leading the debate on the transposition to online. Up to 120 CHEAD Members and staff at UAL attended this #CHEADonline event introduced by Sir Nigel Carrington, Vice Chancellor, University of the Arts London. Attendees shared experiences, information, advice and supported each other through peer to peer exchange of their many challenges which led to creative solutions. The event was the first of its kind, co-designed with UAL, to recognise and enhance the remarkable adaptability and professionalism shown by our community of creative educators in designing and delivering for digital environments. The event explored how...

In May we issued the CHEAD & Crafts Council Members Covid-19 Survey, designed to understand how higher education is adapting and sustaining provision to support students and graduates at this time. The survey was open from 1st May to 15th May 2020 and was sent to 66 institutional members across the UK and publicised across social media. Firstly, thank you to everyone who completed the survey. We received a large number of responses, representing over two thirds of CHEAD’s membership. We have created this infographic in order that can see the key findings of the survey and share these with...