UAL Research Season 2020
UAL Research Season 2020
Research
Our academics play a prominent role in the UK’s creative culture, with research that enhances public understanding of major issues and benefits the creative and cultural industries.
Research with us
PhD and MPhil degrees
Discover an MPhil or PhD awarded in any subject area at UAL with qualified and inspiring supervision.
UAL staff researchers
Find out more about UAL's staff researchers.
Research centres
Research Centres and Networks operate across the University, providing a focus for excellent research in identified areas of strength.
Our research
Research and projects
Find current and completed research by our researchers and research students, spanning art, design and communication.
UAL repository
We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers, and ensure that it reaches the widest possible audience.
Archives and collections
Learn about UAL's Archives and Special Collections Centre based at London College of Communication, which holds the Stanley Kubrick Archive.
Our themes
Living with Environmental Change
Through creative practice increasing understanding of environmental change, communicating the issues and designing for new business models, social innovations and sustainable living. Using design to reduce waste and to change producer and consumer behaviours.
Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
Designing for people’s life long economic, social and health impact, in order to maximise societal gains and minimise issues of dependency, isolation, and inequality.
Digital Futures
Exploring through practice how technology affects lives, changes the way society interacts and impacts on communities, cultural production, future society, and economic growth.
Community Resilience
Using art and design to support communities in understanding how to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to the issues they face, through co-design, co-creation, socially responsive practices and social entrepreneurship.
Research events
LDoc Keynote:Design, Arts & Social Practice: Professors Helen Storey & Lucy Orta
- 18 February 2020
- Location: London College of Fashion, Rootstein Hopkins Space: EAST
Design, Arts & Social Practice: a conversation with Professor Helen Storey and Professor Lucy Orta, chaired by Professor Sandy Black and introduced by Professor Felicity Colman, London College of Fashion
Post-Grad Community Tour: GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary
- 27 February 2020
- Location: Science Gallery London
UAL postgraduate Students are invited to join Post-Grad Community for a tour of the Science Gallery London's latest exhibition GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary.
Staging Mixed Reality: A Theatre Design Symposium
- 5 March 2020
- Location: National Theatre, Cottesloe Room, Clore Learning Centre
Theatre design symposium that will consider the practical and creative possibilities of combining real and virtual worlds in theatre and performance.
Book Launch: Post-Truth Public Relations Communication in an Era of Digital Disinformation
- 9 March 2020
- Location: London College of Communication
Join senior lecturer, Gareth Thompson, at London College of Communication for a short talk followed by drinks to launch his new book.
Drawing, the Performative Body & the Object - Symposium
- 11 March 2020
- Location: Lime Grove, London College of Fashion
This event will focus on the practice/ research of 4 fine artists, their relationship to objects and how they shape narrative and identity.
Research stories
Call for proposals: Decolonising the Archives Research Residency Programme 2020
Decolonising the Archives is a new collaborative initiative at UAL. We are pleased to announce a joint call for proposals for a series of 9 month research residency opportunities in 2020.
Creative Lenses final project report
Creative Lenses is a four-year (2015-2019) project that seeks to make arts and cultural organisations more resilient and sustainable by improving their business models and developing their long-term strategic and innovation capacities.
Creative Lenses – SULA Conference Helsinki
Last month some of the UAL Creative Lenses team travelled to Helsinki (11-12 October) to present at the inaugural SULA conference and to run a research workshop exploring sustainability.
UAL Researcher, Dr Charley Peters has written an essay about artist and educator: Jean Spencer
Spencer’s earliest works included constructed abstract reliefs which employed mathematics as a means of generating formal relations and structures around simple geometric configurations.