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
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.
Unfolding Narratives: PhD Work-In-Progress Show
- 4 March 2020 - 12 March 2020
- Location: London College of Communication
PhD Student Show
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
UAL leads project to embed sustainability at the heart of fashion education
UAL’s reputation for producing world-leading sustainable fashion talent will be the catalyst behind a project aimed at changing how fashion is taught across the world.
Generous support for young artists in philanthropic gift to UAL
Former Camden residents Rodney and Tessa Moorhouse dedicated their lives to helping young people to thrive in the arts. Their generous gift to UAL will support 20 undergraduate students and 20 postgraduate students over five years.
Brexit: UAL and the European Union
At 11pm on Friday 31 January, the UK is legally out of the EU. Despite this, very little will change immediately. The UK enters an 11-month period, known as the 'transition period', which will keep us bound to the EU's rules. Over the upcoming weeks
Research Season 2020: exploring social justice and more this February and March at UAL
Join us this February and March as we explore contemporary and historical issues across a spread of subject areas from fashion and textiles to screen, theatre and performance, media and computer science.