Research at LCF
Research at London College of Fashion is generated by a wide-ranging group of exceptional thinkers, creative practitioners, fashion business experts, and doctoral students. We produce internationally recognised research, critically engaging in challenging assumptions about how the world is, and illuminating a future for what it could be.
Our research community welcomes anyone who is interested in research activities at the college, UAL, other UK organisations, or across the globe within industry. LCF’s research community includes PhD students, early career academics, lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, and professors.
In addition to undertaking research, this community broadly engages in:
- Research-led teaching and learning programmes
- Practice based and practice-led research
- Projects that emerge from, or develop through, community facing knowledge exchange contributing to innovation in the wider industry
Visit our About Us page to learn more about LCF's research community.
Projects
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Christopher Raeburn Spring Summer, 2018
The Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology
The 5 year industry-led project focusses on delivering innovation within the entire fashion and textile supply chain, with special attention given to positioning industry as agents of new technology and materials development.
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Muslim Fashion book cover
Modest Fashion in UK Women's Working Life
This AHRC project explores how religiously-related modest fashion and associated behaviours impact on UK women's working lives – regardless of their own religious community or beliefs.
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@ E-Nkiruka-Oparah. Precursor to a New Dream.
Design Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Design Futures in SSA: Post-Western Perspectives is a network of pioneering technologists, curators and scholars from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and UK. This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
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Faith & Fashion
The Faith & Fashion public talks programme hosts conversations on the relationship between religious cultures and fashion cultures.
PhD Researcher Profiles
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Karley Thompson
Social and cultural experiences of Black British women
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Kiran Ali
Smart digital strategies for fashion SME's adoption of immersive e-tailers
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from Paul Bevan: In Superposition, Finland (2016)
Paul Bevan
Photographic practice and the status of superposition
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Elisa Palomino
Indigenous arctic fish skin heritage
Research facilities
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Credit: LCF Archives LCF Archives, Fashion for Beaux and Belles at Barrett Street School. @ London College of Fashion, College Archive VADS
LCF library and archives
The LCF library and archives gives you access to books, journals, DVDS and garments relating to all aspects of the fashion industry.
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