Jul 7, 2025 | Advocacy, Art education
This blog has kindly been provided by Matt Dowling, CEO of the Freelancers Club. Something remarkable has happened. Shining bright in the latest government Creative Industries Sector Plan was a line so many of us have been waiting years to read: freelancers are the...
Jun 16, 2025 | Advocacy, Policy, Uncategorized
For the attention of Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Team – Intellectual Property Office CHEAD welcomes the opportunity to respond to the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) call for evidence on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. Executive...
May 7, 2025 | Advocacy, Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange
Please find below a downloadable copy of CHEAD’s REF Advocacy Briefing Document. 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. The...
Apr 3, 2025 | Advocacy, Art education
CHEAD are a founding member of the Creative Education Coalition, a group of organisations from the higher education and creative sectors, who are deeply concerned about the future of the creative talent pipeline, and the lack of engagement in...
Mar 25, 2025 | Advocacy, Art education
Blog by Matt Dowling, Founder of the Freelancer Club “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” Some sunny words from the Terminator there as spoken in T2: Judgment Day. Sticking with the doom and gloom, are you currently working for one of the many universities...
Mar 3, 2025 | Advocacy, Art education, Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity, Opportunity
The Inclusive Digital Economy Network+ is hosting a New Narratives workshop in Leeds (March 19-20 2025). This programme is for organisations who are working to enable refugee and asylum seekers to become part of civic life. We’re working hard to create a mix of...
