Advising as an equity practice

This paper draws on the experience of academics and students from Central Saint Martins of conducting and attending applicant advisories. It attempts to draw out the key features of the best advisories - when the transformational creative energy of relationship, openness and excellent teaching come together to generate tangible benefits, and how these features align with wider research around access and equity. Finally, the paper offers a provocation in the form of a dream – a vision for the ways in which creative educators and our institutions might embed a culture of ‘advising for equity’ into our student recruitment and admissions processes.