Post-Grad Interest Groups
UAL’s Post-Grad Community supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
PhD students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme. Students have also used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Want to start an Interest Group?
Download the Post-Grad Interest Group Set Up Guide (PDF 65KB)
Or get in touch with pgcommunity@arts.ac.uk
Post-Grad Interest Group Directory
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Antarctica by Lucy Orta
Credit: Image courtesy of UALTraces: Stories of Migration
Traces aims to interrogate dialogues about a cross-disciplinary subject whilst addressing issues surrounding the act of migration.
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On Going Underground by the Hollow Chambers Team. Selected photographs of publications from the MCG Archive and Library. Photo: Silvia De Giorgi
DRAW
A pan UAL initiative which is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to drawing.
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'Streetstyle: from sidewalk to catwalk', a seminal fashion exhibition staged at the Victoria & Albert Museum in November 1994
Subcultures
What are subcultures? What are their functions and meanings, both historically and contemporarily? And how do subcultural properties survive and thrive?
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Circular Design Lab
Circular Design Lab
Part of the Centre for Circular Design's activities, a discussion group for participants with interests in sustainability, circular economies and design as a tool for positive change.
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Fashion and ethnicity - Post-Grad Interest Group
Fashion and Ethnicity
A platform intended to connect students and researchers in how ethnicity intersects with practices of fashion in its broadest sense.
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Cloop Projects
A platform that designs sustainable fashion education as a tool to challenge current consumption habits, with a specific focus on closing the loop as a response to the negative consequences of the current resource intensive fashion industry.
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Image courtesy of the Change Agents Post-Grad Interest Group.
Change Agents
A network for creative minds at UAL who have an active interest in designing for social change.
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Amble and Sketch - credit: Rachel Hogg
Amble and Sketch
Led by postgrads for postgrads at UAL who meet (physically/virtually) every 3 weeks to walk, draw and build community.
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‘Inert’ by Nicholas Galanin (2009)
How can the contemporary arts represent the non-human world?
An opportunity to explore various discourses that relate to art, science and nature.
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Credit: Jon Martin
The Art of Questioning
A Bi-weekly seminar series for PhD students to come together and question what does it mean to have a method and how methodology of your project can be developed and brought to light?
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Credit: Lynda Beckett
Test Lab
In collaboration with the Doctoral Platform at Central Saint Martins, is an opportunity for PhD students to present papers on any aspect of their research in an informal and discursive setting.
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image credit: Billie Coxhead, CSM Materials Library
Materials Matter
A place to share ideas, projects, events, information and resources about materials. Led by the CSM Materials Products Collection.
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African-Caribbean, Asian and African Art in Britain Archive
A Focus on the African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive, and other Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library.
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Post-Grad Interestt Group: Togetherness In Music
Togetherness in Music
A master student’s thesis research project which centers around alleviating loneliness in young adults (18-25) through community building in music.
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BLAME – Brown Leaders and Makers Exist
BLAME – Brown Leaders and Makers Exist
With the aim to 'make the brown feminist maker visible’.
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The Mikro Collective (Student Edition)
Building a library of the microorganisms and supporting the work of Biodesign
Interest group stories
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Fashioning My Black Body: Reflections through Autoethnography
Reporting back on the 'Fashion and Ethnicity' Post-Grad Interest Group's third session on the topic of ‘clothing and experience’, LCF PhD candidate Kadian Gosler presented work called ‘Fashioning My Black Body: Reflections through
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Post-Grad Interest Group: Materials Matter
A place to share ideas, projects, events, information and resources about materials. Monthly online meet led initially by Billie Coxhead who co-ordinates the UAL Materials & Products Collections.
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Post-Grad Interest Group: Amble and Sketch
Amble and Sketch is an interest group led by and for postgrads at UAL who meet (physically/virtually) every three weeks to walk, draw and build community.
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How can we teach inclusivity and accessibility in design schools better?
MA student led creative studio 'on the mend' report back on their Pop Up Common Room event 'Disability in Design' with Do Ju Gosling - Funded by the UAL Post-Grad Community Project Fund.