Mind the Gap, an 80-minute feature film by award winning film maker Ricardo Barker, is aimed at white educators. Let’s discuss our Awarding Gap bias when you join our FACE screening at London Metropolitan University on 30th October. Free Sign Up via Eventbrite link:...
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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...
Call for abstracts for Zeitgeist ADA 2026 Conference in New Delhi, India
Please find below details of a forthcoming conference in New Delhi, India (February 2026): ZEITGEIST ADA 2026 : An International Conference on Cultural, Spatial & Sensory Futures of Art, Design and Architecture. Abstracts are invited from academics, practitioners,...
From The Foundations: forthcoming retrospective celebrating the life’s work of Joe Woodhouse
8 October - 31 October 2025Wed - Sat, 12:00pm - 4:00pmPreview: 3 October 6:00pm - 8:00 pm Abject Gallery in Sunderland From the Foundations, is a planned series of events taking place from 2025 to 2027 in recognition of artist and educator Joe Woodhouse (1971–2022)...
ELEANOR WORTHINGTON AWARD 2025 – Twelfth Edition: International competition on Art and Disability for tertiary level Art students
The Italian non-profit “Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington ODV” is launching the twelfth round of its international competition on Art and Disability for tertiary level Art students. The Prize is free to enter, no personal connection to Disability is required,...
Creative Design Challenge: Critically Yours
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...
GLAD 2025: Art School Leads
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,...
Westminster-led collaborative project receives funding to build data service for practice research
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...
It’s Time to Lay the Foundations for Freelance Support in HE
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...
Call for Presentations: Skills for Planet
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...