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 connect postgrads with shared research and interests across different subject areas and provide the opportunity to develop, new social networks, knowledge sharing, peer supported projects and the expanding of creative portfolios.
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.
Hear from the initiators of three thriving PhD student-led interest groups to understand how these originated and how the group has fuelled their research.
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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Image courtesy of UAL, Traces web banner
Traces: Stories of Migration
Interrogate dialogues about a cross-disciplinary subject whilst addressing issues surrounding the act of migration.
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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 the functions and meanings of subcultures historically and contemporarily?
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Post-Grad Interest Group: Body Representation
Body Representation
Interrogating various aspects of personal and societal issues of body representation.
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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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Fashion and ethnicity - Post-Grad Interest Group
Fashion and Ethnicity
Looking at how ethnicity intersects with practices of fashion in its broadest sense.
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Open Source Review
Creating dialogues that link theory with practice within a cross-disciplinary membership.
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Image by Hyun Cho
Translation Cases
Seeking to decentralise and decolonise systems of knowledge production in the art world through case studies of translation and multilingual thinking.
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PhD Tea and Chat
A place for PhD students to come together as a community, to socialise or to study and help each other through their PhD journey.
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Tabitha Gammer, Photo by Tabitha Gammer
| Photograph: Tabitha GammerCandid
A crit group for UAL students whose creative practices involve candid imagery.
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Maria Li, Open EcoTech Lab image by Maria Li
| Photograph: Maria LiOpen EcoTech Lab
Open EcoTech Lab is a cross-disciplinary platform to foster collaboration between art/ design and science in developing open-source/ open-science projects that drive behavioral and systemic change for climate emergencies.
Interest group stories
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Image: Camila Rivero-Lake Cha, a print publication from Brown Leaders and Markers Exist (BL&ME)
Post-Grad Interest Group, BL&ME, have digitally released its debut publication, Cha. Download your copy here and find out more about the upcoming exhibition for UAL's Research Season 2023.
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Example of zines Subcultures Interest Group Newspaper Call for Submissions
Post-Grad Community's Subcultures Interest Group will be launching a music press style newspaper - submit your piece now.
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Bracelets used for object analysis, PhD Candidate Anushka Tay (2020). Reporting back on ‘Fashion and Ethnicity’ Post-Grad Interest Group’s 2021 Meetups
Our regular group meetups provide a welcoming and open space to consider the meanings and ramifications of ethnicity in fashion and dress practices worldwide.
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Tailors in Bahrain. (TimeOut magazine, "Tailors in Bahrain", 2009) Language in fashion and sustainability
Reporting back on the 'Fashion and Ethnicity' Post-Grad Interest Group's recent interactive workshop called “Language in Fashion and Sustainability” led by Rawan Maki, PhD Candidate at LCF.