Groups & Networks
There are numerous research hubs and groups across the University and 6 Colleges. They provide support and creative collaboration to UAL researchers and the wider research community.
About Face
Bringing together artists, theorists, curators and writers to explore contemporary portraiture.
Art & Philosophy Research Group
Fostering collaborations among doctoral students through conferences, symposia and talks on the subject of philosophy, politics and the arts.
Art/Design and Science Research Group
Research practice to explore the creative interface of art/design and science and the processes and systems of knowledge that underpin them.
Art: Public Realm and Archive
Engaging with artistic practices and knowledge production within the public realm and the archive.
Better Living Research Hub
Facilitating a deeper understanding of human behaviour and its potential improvement in the fashion and creative industries.
Budapest Collaboration
A collaboration with the Hungarian University of Fine Arts to explore the purpose and nature of artistic research.
Centre For Drawing: A Network
Developing a better understanding of drawing as a cross disciplinary subject.
Centre for Fashion Business and Innovation Research
Delivering insight into the fashion industry’s economic, social and cultural trajectory.
Conscientious Communicators Research Hub
Discussion and exploration around environmental and social creativity with informed and inspirational educators, students and practitioners.
Creative Industries Management Research Hub
Researching creativity, management and organisational behaviour in the creative industries.
Critical Practice
A cluster of individual artists, researchers and academics support critical practice within art, the field of culture and organisation.
Cultural & Historical Studies Hub
A space for the discussion of current research into fashion and popular culture within the broader subject area of Cultural Studies.
Design Activism Research Hub (DARH)
Enquiring into the visual and material practices and artefacts of social movements and other formations of resistance and agitation.
Design for Performance Hub
A space for presentation, reflection and dissemination of research around costume, scenography and performance.
DESIS
Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability: a network of design labs promoting and supporting sustainable change.
Duration and Events
Questioning the materiality of time and duration across a range of fine art practices, theoretical, philosophical and discursive concerns.
Exhibitions: Histories, Practices
Examining the validity and effects of exhibitions and curating practices inside and outside the museum and the gallery space.
Fashion Media and Imagery
A platform to discuss fashion media and its imagery in a disciplinary context through dialogues, projects and events.
Fashion: History, Theory, Curation and Film
Exploring fashion through gender, everyday life, gothic studies, literature, performance, queer theory, representation, sexuality and social class.
Gender & Sexuality Forum
A cross-disciplinary arena to research and share ideas on gender and sexuality.
Global Disability Innovation Hub
Making a positive difference to the lives of disabled people.
Graphic Subcultures
Investigating graphic communication used by subcultural groups to promote their stylistic, philosophical and ideological positions.
Identity, In, and Through, the Built Environment
Exploring the environment as a living network of communications and interactions between people, buildings, spaces, objects and stories.
Menopause
Understanding the experience of the menopause to challenge stereotypes and assumptions about what it is to be an older woman.
MIRAJ/Artists’ Moving Image Network
The first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists’ film and video work.
Moving Image: Practice, Criticism, Discourse
A focal point for the diverse activity in film and video currently pursued by the artists, curators and writers teaching across the Art Programme.
Paint Club
Explore and debating what it means to research painting within the context of contemporary art practice.
Performance Research Network
Rethinking performance as a culturally conditioned mode of staging the construction of the real.
Photography & the Contemporary Imaginary
Exploring and promoting photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary.
Photography As Contemporary Imaginary
A series of events organised by the Photography & Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub at London College of Communication.
Practices of History
Grounded in history, through reference and resonance, whether writing about popular culture, art or architecture, or developing cutting-edge exhibition designs.
Practices of Writing and Publishing
Art writing as an activity to engage critical, experimental, historical and philosophical approaches in and beyond academia.
Research Student Hub
A forum for both practice-based and theory-based research postgraduate students with an interest in fashion.
Screen Research Forum
An arena for critical debate and enquiry into screen-based arts practice (film and television).
Sensingsite
A platform for researchers and artists to present work exploring issues of place, space and site across diverse media and approaches.
SLAAG
Study Group on Latin American Art and Theory discussing the significance of art from Latin America to art theory in general.
Socially Responsive Design and Innovation
Locating the principles, processes and methods that enable designers to deliver socially responsive practice.
Space & Place
Exploring placemaking processes and interrogating spatial discourse.
Subjectivity & Feminisms
Exploring questions and issues of identity as they are mediated between artist/writer, artwork and viewer.
Tate Collaboration
A strong and diversified relationship between CCW Graduate School and Tate Research.
Textiles Environment Design
Developing the role designers can play in reducing impact on the environment and providing tools for design-centred solutions.
The Theatre of Photography
On performativity, the photographic, the theatric, the apparatus, re-enactment, staging, liveness and the event of an image.
Tokyo WonderSite
Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon artist residency exchanges in collaboration with Tokyo WonderSite.
Transnational Fashion Hub
Researching the interplay between the forces of global and local characterising fashion production and consumption.
Typographic Research Unit
Enquiring physical and virtual spaces where visible language is originated, mediated or experienced.
Visual Arts at LCF
Generating connections between researchers engaged with the fields of fashion design, costume, curation and the visual arts.
Writing Photographs
A series of research talks about the relationship of photography and writing.