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
Spoken Word Workshop with Uncle Errol
- 3 February 2020
- Location: Central Saint Martins (CSM D117)
Join Post-Grad Community for an exclusive spoken word workshop with award winning spoken word poet Uncle Errol, one of the main performers in Artangel production 'Here for Life' (2019).
UAL Research Season 2020 Launch Event 'Here For Life' Screening & Panel
- 3 February 2020
- Location: CSM LVMH E002
CSM's Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Co-Director Adrian Jackson will screen their recently released film 'Here For Life', followed by a panel discussion, to launch UAL's Research Season 2020
Making things happen
- 5 February 2020
- Location: Blueprint Café
Join the Social Design Institute and Post-Grad Community in an evening of networking and conversation combining policy design with the UAL research themes hosted as part of RNUAL Block 2 and Research Season.
Post-Grad Social (UAL students only)
- 5 February 2020
- Location: LCC Dark Room Bar
Join Post-Grad Community Student Ambassador Anuradha Rajagopal for a relaxed and informal socialising event for UAL postgrad students from different courses and colleges. Grow your professional network, make new friends or find potential
This is not just a piece of cloth. Care-full entanglements - A discussion
- 5 February 2020
- Location: RHS West, London College of Fashion
This panel discussion addresses female disruptive agency executed through textile work.
Research stories
Sir Nigel Carrington to step down as Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London
Sir Nigel Carrington has announced his intention to step down as Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London (UAL) in December 2020. He plans to continue in public service on a non-executive basis in the future, including in higher education,
Art and design higher education leaders unveil virtual Shared Campus
Spearheading an ecologically sustainable, cross-cultural digital university model, UAL is one of seven founding partners of 'Shared Campus' .
“What do you see when you see me?”
UAL Creative Computing Institute is part of an exploratory co-research project with learning disabled and autistic co-researchers. Together they have built multimedia surveys to learn about public attitudes to autism and learning disability.
A story of community and life on the margins: Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s ‘Here for Life’
UAL Reader and Lecturer, artist and film-maker, Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s latest feature film Here for Life comes to cinemas this week, the product of a three-year long collaboration with Adrian Jackson, founder of Cardboard Citizens.