Paul Haywood

Summary

Paul Haywood is Dean of Academic Programmes at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where he leads a diverse and dynamic portfolio of Performance, Art, Product, Ceramics and Industrial Design, and Jewellery and Textiles.

Biography

Paul Haywood is Dean of Academic Programmes at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where he leads a diverse and dynamic portfolio of Performance, Art, Product, Ceramics and Industrial Design, and Jewellery and Textiles.

Paul joined UAL in 2016 as Associate Dean for Academic Development and was appointed Dean the following year. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Dean of the School of Art and Design at Middlesex University, where he also held the title of Professor of Socially Engaged Practice.

Alongside his leadership at Central Saint Martins, Paul holds a university-wide remit as UAL’s academic lead on the Management Team of Shared Campus – an international cooperation platform uniting 13 leading arts institutions worldwide. Shared Campus facilitates cross-disciplinary collaboration and transcultural learning through research and education formats that respond to both global and local issues. Under his guidance, programmes such as MA Intercultural Practice and MA Performance: Society have successfully integrated Shared Campus collaborations into their core curriculum, expanding opportunities for international co-created learning.

Paul Haywood maintains a long-standing affiliation with the University of Salford, where he has served as Professor and Visiting Professor of Creative Community Engagement. This partnership has enabled him to co-develop REBEL (Recognition of Experience Based Education and Learning), a toolkit created in collaboration with a wide network of academics, NGOs, and policy organisations. Ten years in the making, REBEL supports the recognition of informal and community-based learning and is currently being deployed with local authorities, including Camden Council, to evidence the competencies and contributions of citizen volunteers.

A passionate advocate for experience-based learning and community-led self-organisation, Paul’s practice extends beyond academia. He is a member of Ebor Studios, an artist-led collective in Rochdale, and a Director of Guns to Goods CIC – a social enterprise that transforms weapons recovered from the criminal justice system into public artworks. His early research, notably as Principal Investigator for an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship focused on community engagement and place-based arts enterprise, laid the groundwork for many of his ongoing interests in urban regeneration, cultural intermediation, and creative placemaking.

Most recently, Paul served as Co-Investigator on the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance programme, “Open Design and Manufacturing in Europe”, furthering the development and application of the REBEL framework to support local innovation networks. A firm believer in the transformative potential of education, Paul remains energised by the unpredictable, generative nature of creativity. Outside of his professional commitments, he paints during weekends and continues to support the sector through his role as Chair of the National Association of Fine Art Educators.

Per his LinkedIn: “I am an educationalist concerned with fair and equal rights of access to learning that can effectively promote independent creative enquiry and routes to enhanced and relevant personal development. I have observed that such practices afford opportunities for social contribution that enable the individual to find their place in society and best secure self-respect and self-belief. Therefore, I commit my time within education and within the contemporary visual arts with the intention of supporting broad educational engagement and social activism… Beside my professional life, I continue to experiment with processes of painting in the studio and with photography.”

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