BANFF – AER International Residency resident announced
CSM MA Fine Art student Flavia Tritto has been selected as the AER artist in residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta Canada
Shaping creative culture and the economy
Research
Our academics play a prominent role in the UK’s creative culture, with research that enriches cultural life, enhances public understanding of major issues, and benefits the creative and cultural industries.
We have a vibrant research community across our 6 Colleges - with 9 research centres and an Innovation Insights Hub, which leads and promotes innovative research.
Research stories
LCF PhD student Elisa Palomino receives a Fulbright Award to the US
The research that Elisa Palomino is doing through her PhD studies at London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion is an interdisciplinary study of indigenous Arctic fish skin heritage, building connections between anthropology,
Utopoly: reloaded – developing a utopian research game
Utopoly is a tool for inquiry, reflection and idea generation. It uses a game as utopian practice to critique the state of society and engage in speculation about how to shape the future.
Picturing the Invisible: a new AHRC-funded research network
A research network led by Prof. Paul Coldwell, Professor in Fine Art at University of the Arts London.
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.
Our research
UAL research projects
Browse research and projects by UAL researchers and students.
Research centres
Discover our research centres and networks, operating across the University, providing a focus for excellent research in identified areas of strength.
Researching at UAL
Find out what it's like to be a researcher at UAL.
Research events
Sound Arts Visiting Practitioners Series Autumn Term 2019
This series of visiting speakers is co-hosted by LCC’s department of Sound Arts and Design and UAL's research centre for Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice and is curated by Annie Goh.
TrAIN Open Lecture: Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
- 21 November 2019
- Location: Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Arts
Artist Jonas Staal will talk about understanding propaganda in the post-truth era and how to create a new kind of emancipatory propaganda art.
Kubrick: Behind Eyes Wide Shut, a Symposium
- 16 December 2019 - 17 December 2019
- Location: London College of Communication
Kubrick: Behind Eyes Wide Shut - A Symposium UAL in collaboration with Bangor University
Staging Mixed Reality
- 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.
Our researchers
Donatella Barbieri
Senior Research Fellow in Design for Performance at London College of Fashion.
Professor Sonia Boyce
Chair of Black Art and Design and Member of TrAIN (Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation).
Professor Robert Kesseler
Visual artist and Professor at Central Saint Martins and University Chair in Arts, Design & Science (2013-16)