The research community at London College of Communication is made up of world-renowned practitioners and theorists specialising in film, current practices and histories of photography, communication studies, sound arts, graphic and information design, and spatial design.
Our research is supported by collaborations with industry, commerce and the cultural sector, funding from UK research councils, and through international partnerships.
LCC offers a supportive and exciting research environment for graduate researchers with seminars, lectures and events.
In recent years, graduate researchers have curated exhibitions, hosted conferences and produced publications of their work.
Find out about the benefits of studying a research degree at London College of Communication.
Unfolding Narratives is the Postgraduate Research work-in-progress exhibition at London College of Communication.
Unfolding Narratives | Postgraduate Research Work-In-Progress Show 2024
The Branded Content Research Hub (BCRH) explores content that is funded or produced by marketers.
The Comics Research Hub (CoRH) brings together world-leading academics from across UAL, highlighting the resources the university holds in its archives and providing a context for the wealth of ongoing comics research.
Conscientious Communicators is a cross-disciplinary community established to develop practice-based research around environmental and social creativity.
Design Activism Research Hub is concerned with the visual and material culture practices and artefacts of social movements and other formations of resistance and agitation.
The Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub explores digital media and communications in contemporary cultures and economies.
The Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG) was set up on the 14th July 2020 in response to a growing demand from various staff and doctoral students at UAL for a place where theoretical and practical ideas of experimentation in creative educational contexts could be explored.
The group aims to investigate graphic communication strategies used by self-identifying subcultural groups, often centred around music, fashion and lifestyle interests, to promote their stylistic, philosophical and ideological positions.
The Innovations in Publishing Research Hub (IPRH) develops knowledge and new understanding of current developments and opportunities for change specifically applied to activities of the publishing industry.
View the research outputs produced by PARC, the former Photography and the Archive Research Centre.
The research hub at LCC brings together practitioners and theorists to explore and promote photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary.
The Sonic Screen Lab (SSL) is an interdisciplinary research hub and creative playground that interrogates and innovates with audio-visual storytelling and the links between culture and social change.
This group explores the experience of urban environments, namely London and Elephant and Castle, to explore place-making processes and interrogate spatial discourse.
Supra Systems Studio is a research machine from the Design School at LCC, interrogating and materialising the politics of network technology through design practice.
Visible Justice is a transdisciplinary research collective based at University of the Arts London.
Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) aims to develop the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts.
Professor of Service Design
Reader in Service Design and Collaborative Futures
Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
Reader, London College of Communication
Professor of Communications and Media
Professor of Sound
Professor of Film and Screen
Lecturer, BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies
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Post-Grad Community
Post-Grad Community is an environment which provides access to cross-college and cross-disciplinary opportunities, events and networking for postgraduate taught and research students at UAL.