MA Documentary Film graduate gains prestigious awards for ‘A Thousand Girls Like Me’
2012 MA Documentary Film graduate Sahra Mani has won the One World Media Best Feature Documentary with her graduation film A Thousand Girls Like Me.
Research at London College of Communication
LCC research community
The research community at LCC is made up of world-reowned 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.
Research: Stories
London College of Communication screens film about India’s space programme by director Daniel Saul
London College of Communication screened a film, A Small Dream, that uses dance to explore parallels between space travel and the life of an Indian woman.
Professor of Photography Val Williams curates major new ‘Seaside’ show for Turner Contemporary
London College of Communication’s Professor of the History and Culture of Photography, Val Williams, has co-curated a major new exhibition for Turner Contemporary.
William Raban's work showcased by Anthology Film Archives in New York
LCC Film Professor William Raban’s comprehensive collection of films, which span over five decades, will be welcomed at the international centre for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video in New York.
Research Fortnight at LCC
Research Fortnight is our annual celebration of research across UAL. This year’s programme at LCC featured events and exhibitions exploring themes of conflict, reconciliation, displacement, refugee experience, and social justice.
Research centres
PARC
Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) commissions new and innovative research into photography and culture, organising seminars, exhibitions, study days and conferences, both within UAL and externally.
CRiSAP
Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) aims to develop the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts.
Research hubs and networks
Conscientious Communicators Research Hub
Conscientious Communicators is a cross-disciplinary community established to develop practice-based research around environmental and social creativity.
Comics Research Hub (CoRH)
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.
Creative Industries Management Research Hub
Creative Industries Management Research Hub brings together knowledge and new understanding on creativity, management and organisational behaviour as applied specifically to the activities of creative industries.
Design Activism Research Hub (DARH)
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.
Graphic Subcultures Research Hub
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.
Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary
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.
Screen Research Forum
The Screen Research Forum is based at LCC and is organised by Professor William Raban. It serves as an arena for critical debate and enquiry into screen-based arts practice (film and television).
Space and Place
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
Supra Systems Studio is a research machine from the Design School at LCC, interrogating and materialising the politics of network technology through design practice.
Twitter Feed
@ResearchLCC: 7 June 2019
A comprehensive survey of LCC Professor of Film, William Raban's work over the past 50 years begins this evening @AnthologyFilm New York. Read the @LCCLondon story here: https://t.co/1Susb6NUfM #UALReserach https://t.co/47xxbE3lUf
@ResearchLCC: 7 June 2019
'Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976' compiles histories of fanzines, viewed from below and created in collaboration. Join us for the launch event 9th of July @LCCLondon #UALResearch Book your place: https://t.co/WFl8zqzfZu https://t.co/RXK0IHkmF7
@ResearchLCC: 20 May 2019
LCC Professor of Photography Val Williams curates major new ‘Seaside: Photographed’ show for Turner Contemporary https://t.co/5CrCGMJSWH
@ResearchLCC: 11 March 2019
Come and join us this evening at 18:00 @LCCLondon for Everything is Media: Overlap and Boundaries in a Mediated World. Book your free place here: https://t.co/TnIIviWamP #UALResearch https://t.co/lhTJRHPwmb
RE:SEARCH | Dr Sara Davidmann
Discover the people and processes behind research at London College of Communication.
RE:SEARCH | Professor Val Williams
Discover the people and processes behind research at London College of Communication.
Research exhibition: Ken. To Be Destroyed
This exhibition by Sara Davidmann showcases work that combines original archive material with Davidmann’s new work.