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Dr Debbie Savage
Savage is an academic and researcher based in Cardiff, where she is the Associate Dean (Research) at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University. In this leadership role, she plays a central part in shaping research strategy and supporting excellence across the school’s art and design disciplines, helping to develop research environments that foster innovation, societal impact, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Savage built her experience in the arts sector through roles supporting exhibitions, cultural organisations, and arts programming in Wales. Beginning her career at Cultural Enterprise and Chapter Arts Centre, as well as taking on temporary and voluntary roles with Wales Arts International, g39, Cardiff Film Festival, and Ffotogallery’s Diffusion Festival, she has worked across many levels of the creative sector, from working with individual practitioners, small galleries and arts organisations, to collaborating with multiple partners and large, international organisations.
She is committed to articulating the ability of the creative sector to initiate transformative change and make valuable contributions to society and the economy. She has written for several arts publications, organised creative community events, supported substantial grant activity and led on projects with Cardiff Council, Cardiff and Vale Health Board, Hay Castle, and Kharkiv National Pedagogical University H.S. Skovoroda. Savage is also an active member of the Wales Arts and Humanities Alliance (WAHA), a pan-Wales initiative building deeper and stronger partnerships and knowledge exchange through the research and innovation excellence of higher education arts and humanities.
Biography
Savage is an academic and researcher based in Cardiff, where she is the Associate Dean (Research) at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University. In this leadership role, she plays a central part in shaping research strategy and supporting excellence across the school’s art and design disciplines, helping to develop research environments that foster innovation, societal impact, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Savage built her experience in the arts sector through roles supporting exhibitions, cultural organisations, and arts programming in Wales. Beginning her career at Cultural Enterprise and Chapter Arts Centre, as well as taking on temporary and voluntary roles with Wales Arts International, g39, Cardiff Film Festival, and Ffotogallery’s Diffusion Festival, she has worked across many levels of the creative sector, from working with individual practitioners, small galleries and arts organisations, to collaborating with multiple partners and large, international organisations.
She is committed to articulating the ability of the creative sector to initiate transformative change and make valuable contributions to society and the economy. She has written for several arts publications, organised creative community events, supported substantial grant activity and led on projects with Cardiff Council, Cardiff and Vale Health Board, Hay Castle, and Kharkiv National Pedagogical University H.S. Skovoroda. Savage is also an active member of the Wales Arts and Humanities Alliance (WAHA), a pan-Wales initiative building deeper and stronger partnerships and knowledge exchange through the research and innovation excellence of higher education arts and humanities.