Across higher and further education, the role of the course leader has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. This evolution hasn’t been announced in headlines or policy briefings – rather, it has crept in incrementally, through shifting expectations, institutional restructuring, and the slow absorption of tasks once distributed more widely across academic departments. Today’s course…

The role of the photography course leader has always involved balancing theory and practice, aesthetics and ethics, technical skill and conceptual thought. But in recent years, that balancing act has become more demanding – and more invisible. Much of what defines the role today is not written into job descriptions or workload models. It is…