Groups and 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 and 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.
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.
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.
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 Design and Visual Arts Practice
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 Imagery 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.
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.
Performance Research Network
Rethinking performance as a culturally conditioned mode of staging the construction of the real.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.