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Ve Dewey on CHEAD's New Creative Leadership Programme

Ve Dewey talks to Catherine Glover, keynote speaker on the Programme and Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, about vision, collaborative shaping, and, in her view, what Higher Education needs now.

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03.12.25

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03.12.25

Ve Dewey on CHEAD's New Creative Leadership Programme

Ve Dewey talks to Catherine Glover, keynote speaker on the Programme and Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, about vision, collaborative shaping, and, in her view, what Higher Education needs now.

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02.12.25

"To put care at the centre of HE is as fundamental, I believe, as profit."

Sandra Booth, Director of Policy and External Relations at CHEAD discusses the Creative Leadership Programme with Dr Catherine (Cat) Glover.

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02.12.25

CHEAD supports the UK's first Freelancer Think Tank

We’ve just taken a major step toward reshaping how UK universities prepare students for the future of work.

25.11.25

"The coaching skill base is so expansive and transformative": Introducing Coaching Tools to Technical Leaders

Ashleigh Pearson is a qualified ILM coach and a member of UAL’s coaching network. Her current research interests include critical thinking through making and facilitating interdisciplinary, embodied and dialogic thinking spaces in art and design HE. In 2024-25, Ashleigh was a participant in the CHEAD Technical Leadership programme. We invited her back to introduce coaching to this year’s cohort and offer them some tools.

Director of Membership and Operations, Joanie Magill interviewed Ashleigh to discuss coaching and the tools she introduced to the cohort and why they matter.

24.11.25

"Carry On Carrying-On"

Written by Sian Vaughan, CHEAD Co-opted Trustee (RIKE Alliance) and Director of Research for Art, Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University

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12.11.25

The Creative Education Coalition responds to the Curriculum and Assessment review final report

"Creative Education fuels the economy - and the nation's cultural life."

12.11.25

Lecturer Vacancies at the University of Gloucestershire

The University of Gloucestershire currently has three Lecturer Vacancies.

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28.10.25

CHEAD ANdAE Study Programme 2025

We are excited to share a few highlights from our recent study trip to Paris.

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21.10.25

UAL Report: Who Gets To Be An Artist?

The UAL Report 'Who Gets To Be An Artist?' was produced with Artquest and looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, using survey data from their ongoing Applied data partnership to consider whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible.