We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025.

We hope you can use the REF Advocacy piece internally as a prompt to your colleagues to continue to support Art and Design, and practice-based research, more strategically.

Our response to the DfE’s Curriculum and Assessment Review is informed by our experience supporting art, craft, media and design in the creative sector and the wider creative economy, and our track record of working with creative educators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers and students to deliver creativity in the curriculum.

The Journal of Visual Art Practice marked its 20th anniversary in 2021, and its current issue (Vol. 20, Issue 4) offers both reflection on the journal’s rich history, but also its forward going vision and commitment to an international and diverse approach.

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.

This post was written by Luigi Galimberti | Project Manager, Business of Fashion, Textiles & Technology Partnership, University of the Arts London

Britain’s creative industries are worth £92 billion, employ 2 million people and are growing twice as fast as the rest of the economy. Strong leadership, collaborative action and recognition of recommendations in the Bazalgette Review for creative industries to underpin future prosperity has resulted in the sector being recognised for a sector deal.

This response was a collaborative effort with particular thanks to Prof Jim Roddis (Emeritus SHU), Prof Oriana Baddeley (UAL), Prof Vicky Gunn (GSA), Prof Bill Gaver (Goldsmiths), Prof Kerstin Mey (Westminster School of Media Arts and Design), and Prof Anita Taylor (Bath Spa) for extensive help with the draft and to everyone who participated in our three regional consultation roundtables.

CHEAD’s response to a call for evidence for a review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to ensure that future university research funding is allocated more efficiently, offers greater rewards for excellent research and reduces the administrative burden on institutions.