Research and projects
Our research enhances cultural life and a diverse range of communities.
Find out about current and completed research by UAL researchers and research students.
Featured projects
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Gabrielle Ngoo working on her laptop and phone, Alys Tomlinson
Branded Content Governance Project
International research project that examines the regulation, policies, practices and communications surrounding brand-funded content.
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Image courtesy of UAL
Subcultures: Then and Now
A groundbreaking research project exploring subcultural style and its impact on fashion, curation and culture.
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Mina Jahić from the Rescuers Project PCRC, Credit - Dr Paul Lowe
Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community
A collaborative project that aims to improve our understanding of a major global security challenge through various creative practices.
Find more UAL projects
Funded research projects by UAL staff researchers:
- Accelerate: Accessible Immersive Learning for Art and Design
- Archaeology of Fashion Film
- Architecture after Architecture
- ART-CHERIE
- Bio-Inspired Textiles
- Branded content governance project
- British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection
- Catalytic Clothing
- Classification of Conservation Web Content
- CRAFT: Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Future
- Co-design Your Place
- Concepts Have Teeth
- Creative Lenses
- Design and Policy Network
- Design Thinking for Prison Industries
- Drawing Out
- The Digital Documentation of Materiality in Painting: The Case of Contemporary Korean and British Abstract Art
- Digital Markers: Making contingent markers with localised networks
- Education4Fashion-Tech: Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Fashion in the Digital Era
- Exploding Fashion: Cutting, Constructing and Thinking Through Things
- Faith and Fashion
- Fashion in Film
- FashionSEEDS (Fashion Societal, Economic & Environmental Design-led Sustainability)
- FTalliance: Weaving Universities and Companies to Co-create Fashion-Tech Future Talents
- Fishskin
- FUEL4Design: Future Education and Literacy for Designers
- Indian Diaspora: Cultural Heritage and Representation
- Materializing Data, Embodying Climate Change
- Modest Fashion in UK Women's Working Life
- Open Design and Manufacturing
- ReDigIm: Redistributive Imaginaries: digitalization, culture and prosocial contribution
- The People's Personal and Protective Equipment
- Pharma-Factory
- Scoping Culture and Heritage Capital
- Subcultures: Then and Now
- T-Factor
- Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage
- Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation