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

Last year the Design Council launched its Skills for Planet Mission: to upskill 1 million designers with green design skills by 2030.

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 FACE Race Handbook is a vital resource delivering cultural competency for our allies, whilst confronting anti-Blackness in our art and design institutions. Acknowledging that white privilege and race are rarely spoken about in the workplace and beyond, FACE encourages its allies to interrogate privilege and racial bias through regular meetings with Black and racially minoritised FACE colleagues.

UAL are hosting a webinar specifically for Higher Education Institutions.

Read the working paper published after the 2023 Women in Leadership event, bringing together the outcomes from the break out sessions and conclusions, institutional policy ‘asks’ and provocations.

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.