CANCELLED: Fashion // Manifesto Workshop
This session will evaluate the manifesto as a format for articulating shared interests in fashion, across scholarly and design contexts.
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
PhD Webinar – "Mapping Experiences of Inner Sound" by Victoria Karlsson
- 16 April 2020
- Location: Online Event
Join Post-Grad Community in this 40 minute webinar presenting the work of UAL PhD Victoria Karlsson.
Blame the Tools: Crafty Robots, Well-behaved Implements and Disobedient Devices
- 30 April 2020
- Location: Lecture Theatre, Camberwell College of Arts
This symposium invites makers, curators, crafters, designers, historians, artists, collectors, architects, storytellers, users and social scientists to share understandings of the tool from multiple viewpoints.
Discursivity Part II
- 4 May 2020 - 5 May 2020
- Location: Cookhouse Galery
An exhibition of work showcasing the innovative and exploratory research within practice-based PhD candidates at CCW.
Postponed: Parting Shots: Professor William Raban
- 19 May 2020
- Location: London College of Communication
Parting Shots: Professor William Raban reflects on 53 years at UAL, presented by Research at London College of Communication.
TrAIN Open Lecture: Anandi Ramamurthy - The Other Story: A View from Manchester
- 20 May 2020
- Location: Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Arts
Anandi Ramamurthy’s reflections on contemporary art in Britain in the 1980s and her decision to exit the field.
Research stories
What can designers do to respond to Coronavirus?
The UAL Social Design Institute is helping to lead a design community response to Coronavirus across UAL. Listed here are a set of tools and resources that support design responses to the pandemic.
Bringing fish skin to market as the sustainable new leather
Thirty two million tons of annual fish waste can be put into production as an alternative to exotic leathers, as new research sets out to show that fish leather is viable to take forward for commercial use in the fashion industry.
Open events in March for UAL Research Season
Research Season at UAL continues during March. Join us as we showcase research connecting with the topics that define our times - with a particular emphasis on social justice and the arts.
STEAM: integrating the Arts with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths in higher education
Programme leaders from CSM's MA Art and Science are contributing to new research aligning studies of the Arts alongside STEM subjects in higher education - to unlock greater potential in thinking that drives prosperity and innovation.