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This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline for the "CRITICALLY YOURS" design challenge is approaching on October 20th, 2025. This challenge offers your students a unique opportunity to apply their design skills to the critical issue of online...
Written by Louise O'Boyle, Associate Dean (Academic Quality & Student Experience) Ulster University and CHEAD Expert Trustee. This reflection argues that creative education is essential civic infrastructure. Drawing on sessions at GLAD 2025, it examines language,...
Funded through UKRI and in partnership with QMUL, University of Leeds and the British Library, the University of Westminster has received funding to build the ENACT Practice Research Data Service - an important sector-wide initiative to make practice research...
This blog has kindly been provided by Matt Dowling, CEO of the Freelancers Club. If 2024 was the year universities started to take freelancing seriously, then 2025 is the year to act on it. From curriculum reform and enterprise strategies to employability frameworks...
The Skills for Planet Map by the Design Council is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license We are looking for individuals and groups to present their work on Skills for Planet for our Innovations in Practice event on 22 October 2025. This could be how you are...
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025 is open to all undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2024 - August 2025. This international showcase is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to present...
https://www.chead.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Design-for-Planet.jpg Last year the Design Council launched its Skills for Planet Mission: to upskill 1 million designers with green design skills by 2030. Given that students are the designers of tomorrow, as HE...
Written by Victoria Barragán, Helen Darby & Paul Micklethwaite from Manchester Metropolitan University The Future of Practice Research Symposium took place at Manchester Metropolitan University on 9th June 2025. Welcoming around 70 delegates from across the UK,...
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...
This blog post has kindly been provided by co-authors Meera Darji (meera.darji@bcu.ac.uk) and Annette Naudin (annette.naudin@bcu.ac.uk), Birmingham City University. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has grown incredibly fast in the past year. It seems...