Research

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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.

Creative Process with Adrienne Bennie, PhD Research Student. Image courtesy of UAL

Doctoral School

Discover an MPhil or PhD awarded in any subject area at UAL with qualified and inspiring supervision.
3D Draping on the Stand Summer School, image courtesy of UAL

UAL staff researchers

Find out more about UAL's staff researchers.
Incunabula (2014) Film by Marie Schuller in collaboration with Kaat Debo

Research centres

Research Centres operate across the University, providing a focus for excellent research in identified areas of strength.

Mina Jahić from the Rescuers Project PCRC, Credit - Dr Paul Lowe

Research and projects

Find current and completed research by our researchers and research students, spanning art, design and communication.
Lucy Orta and Jorge Orta, Fabulae Naturae (2015)

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.
Stanley Kubrick during filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey (US/UK 1968) © Warner Bros. Inc., Stanley Kubrick during filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey (US/UK 1968) © Warner Bros. Inc.

Archives and collections

Learn about UAL's Archives and Special Collections Centre based at London College of Communication, which holds the Stanley Kubrick Archive.

UAL contributes to major new report on improving diversity and inclusion in creative Higher Education

Making the Creative Majority, a report authored by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Creative Diversity showing that access to creative Higher Education remains ‘highly unequal’, has now been published.
Made in Code: Reimagining the Experience of Fashion, Instillation at V&A, BFTT/ Photography | Adam Razvi, 2023

Made in Code: Reimagining the Experience of Fashion

The University of the Arts London (UAL), Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology (BFTT), Creative Research & Development Partnership recently launched a prototype installation at the V&A to showcase the significant potential of digital fashion experiences across performance, film, games, archives, and other wide ranging cultural contexts.
Kate Goldsworthy, 2017, Man-made Re-made

UAL partners with The Welding Institute to create Innovation Lab

A new agreement between UAL and TWI will see the two parties establish a unique centre for creative textile and materials engineering technologies called the University of the Arts London Innovation Lab (UALIL).
Joanna Domagalska, 2022 BA Graphic and Media Design, London College of Communication, UAL

UAL Research Strategy 2023-2028: Changing the world through our creative endeavour

Launching our research strategy, focused on the vision of "changing the world through our creative endeavour."
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