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.
Art and philosophy research group
Fostering collaborations among doctoral students through conferences, symposia and talks on the subject of philosophy, politics and the arts.
Better Living Research Hub
Facilitating a deeper understanding of human behaviour and its potential improvement in the fashion and creative industries.
Centre For Drawing: A Network
Developing a better understanding of drawing as a cross disciplinary subject.
Centre for Fashion Business and Innovation Research
Centre for Fashion Business and Innovation Research delivers 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 and 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.
Digital Anthropology Lab
Delivering insight into the fashion industry’s economic, social and cultural trajectory.
Exhibitions: Histories, Practices
Examining the validity and effects of exhibitions and curating practices inside and outside the museum and the gallery space.
Fashion Design and Visual Arts Practice Hub
Generating connections between researchers engaged with the fields of fashion design, costume, curation and the visual arts.
Fashion: History, Theory, Curation and Film
Exploring fashion through gender, everyday life, gothic studies, literature, performance, queer theory, representation, sexuality and social class.
Fashion Media and Communication Hub
A platform to discuss fashion media and its imagery in a disciplinary context through dialogues, projects and events.
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.
&Living Systems Lab Research Group
The Living Systems Lab explores the inherent properties of biological living systems.
Masculinities Hub
This cross-disciplinary hub fosters the exploration of the multiple meanings and forms of contemporary and historic masculinities.
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.
Performing Dress Lab
Delivering insight into the fashion industry’s economic, social and cultural trajectory.
Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary
Exploring and promoting photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary.
Picturing the Invisible
A research network and collaboration between University of the Arts London (UAL) and University College London (UCL), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
sensingsite
A platform for researchers and artists to present work exploring issues of place, space and site across diverse media and approaches.
Socially responsive design and innovation
Locating the principles, processes and methods that enable designers to deliver socially responsive practice.
Space and Place
Exploring placemaking processes and interrogating spatial discourse.
Subjectivity and Feminisms
Exploring questions and issues of identity as they are mediated between artist/writer, artwork and viewer.
Textiles Environment Design
Developing the role designers can play in reducing impact on the environment and providing tools for design-centred solutions.
Transnational Fashion Hub
Researching the interplay between the forces of global and local characterising fashion production and consumption.