Lockheart is a Professor, Head of Contextual Practices, and Director of the Metadesign Research Centre (MRC) at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David;[2][3][4][5][6] metadesign researcher and Associate Lecturer in Design Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London;[2][7] and also as a design and language consultant to several educational institutions internationally.

[7] She holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Teaching English as a second or foreign language (TESOL) from the Institute of Education, University of London.

[3][10] She currently works as a metadesign researcher and Associate Lecturer in Design Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London;[2][7] as a Professor, Head of Contextual Practices, and Director of the Metadesign Research Centre (MRC) at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David;[2][3][5][6] and also as a design and language consultant to several educational institutions internationally.

[11] Lockheart posits that "upholding these institutional assumptions may have an impact on how writing is used as a component of examination and therefore aligned with the need for academic parity across the HE sector, rather than as a tool for understanding and articulating practice.

[11] Lockheart is also director and co-ordinator of Writing-PAD – short for Writing Purposefully in Art and Design[13] – an online academic and research network connecting over 100 institutions.

[3] Writing-PAD grew out of Lockheart's interest in a correct interpretation and implementation of the Coldsteam Reports and in academic literacies, and was specifically set-up "to support and disseminate the range of genres associated with writing in art and design;"[13] and also "to promote discussion about the necessary balance of consensus and dissensus that art and design fields require to remain vibrant.

[7][5][8][10] The JWCP, too, grew out of the contentious re-reading of the Coldstream Reports, and also out of the Writing-PAD international network, and is its "published voice"[7][5][8][10] – as did the later project "DreamsID" (see below).

[14] Then, later in the session, the audience is invited to join in the discussion, referencing the dream to waking life, according to the method devised by psychiatrist Montague Ullman.

[2][9] In April 2019, the BBC World Service Television programme CrowdScience broadcast a segment in which Lockheart is shown painting as a candidate shares her dream.

[18] The aim of the events was to discuss with expert panel and worldwide audience how Dora’s two dreams could be related to her distressing family circumstances.

[22] In recognition of the Dadaist influence on the DreamsID collaboration, in July 2023 Blagrove and Lockheart held an event at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich.