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Research centres

Research centres operate across the University, providing a focus for excellent research in identified areas of strength.

They support groups of researchers in a range of activities that extend beyond the remit of individual projects, creating an environment where debate can flourish, providing a sound foundation for future work.

  • Afterall
    Afterall is a Research Centre of University of the Arts London, located at Central Saint Martins. We undertake contemporary art research within this framework and in partnership with other international educational and cultural institutions.

    Afterall

    Afterall is a Research centre of University of the Arts London, located at Central Saint Martins. We undertake contemporary art research within this framework and in partnership with other international educational and cultural institutions.

  • Centre for fashion curation
    The Centre for Fashion Curation challenges and develops theory and practices by demonstrating and enabling rigorous, innovative and experimental work within fashion curation.

    Centre for Fashion Curation

    The Centre for Fashion Curation challenges and develops theory and practices by demonstrating and enabling rigorous, innovative and experimental work within fashion curation.

  • Close up of fabric being cut
    Centre for Sustainable Fashion | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London | Image by Guillaume Valli

    Centre for Sustainable Fashion

    The Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) explores the field of design for sustainability and its application to fashion as both artistic and business practice.

  • A sound installation featuring 2 white walls with hanging microphones and upright planks of wood against them. In front there are 2 loudspeakers on the floor. The wall features lines of text such as, “If you look closely they have tiny little leaves”, “And it tastes like hair”, “This smells like forests in the snowy places.” Some of the text is obscured by the planks.
    Sound installation with speakers, wood and text, by Salomé Voegelin and Lisa Hall, London College of Communication, UAL

    Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice

    Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a world-leading interdisciplinary research centre in the field of sound arts.

  • People looking at an art installation of light boxes with world maps printed on them
    Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, The World Justified, Left Aligned, Centred, Right Aligned, 2004. 4 Light Boxes,120 x 250 x 12cm each. Installation View. Photograph Ding Musa.

    Transnational Art, Identity and Nation

    The Research centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation is a forum for historical, theoretical and practice-based research in architecture, art, communication, craft and design.