LCF hosts two world-leading UAL research centres, the Centre for Fashion Curation and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion.
Research at London College of Fashion is generated by a wide-ranging group of exceptional thinkers, creative practitioners, fashion business experts, and doctoral students. We produce internationally recognised research, critically engaging in challenging assumptions about how the world is, and illuminating a future for what it could be.
Our research community welcomes anyone who is interested in research activities at the college, UAL, other UK organisations, or across the globe within industry. LCF’s research community includes PhD students, early career academics, lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, and professors.
In addition to undertaking research, this community broadly engages in:
Visit our About us page to learn more about LCF's research community.
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD at London College of Fashion, visit our PhD and MPhil degrees page for more information.
LCF alumna, Dr Morna Laing, Assistant Professor at Parson’s Paris, presented her book, Picturing the Woman-child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze at LCF.
In March 2023, London College of Fashion (LCF) hosted its first international online conference on the psychology of fashion.
A brief overview of the activities undertaken by LCF researchers from MSc Cosmetic Science, spanning from published papers to appearances at prestigious international events.
MA Womenswear Course Leader, Dr Nabil El Nayal joins Professor Helen Storey, returning to Jordan to continue supporting the future of the makers of Zaatari Refugee Camp.
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The LCF library and archives gives you access to books, journals, DVDS and garments relating to all aspects of the fashion industry.
The LCF research centres offer a great resource for your studies, from research to final projects.
Our repository for research outputs from UAL's academics.
The 5 year industry-led project focusses on delivering innovation within the entire fashion and textile supply chain, with special attention given to positioning industry as agents of new technology and materials development.
This AHRC project explores how religiously-related modest fashion and associated behaviours impact on UK women's working lives – regardless of their own religious community or beliefs.
The Design Futures in SSA: Post-Western Perspectives is a network of pioneering technologists, curators and scholars from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and UK. This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
The Faith & Fashion public talks programme hosts conversations on the relationship between religious cultures and fashion cultures.
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LCF hosted the Costume Institute of the African Diaspora’s (CIAD) Biennial Dress Conference: Fibres, Threads and Fabrics in October 2022.
Reflecting the disciplinary expertise of UAL, the ISFNR conference explored the intersections of folk narrative and visual culture in all its various forms.
Social and cultural experiences of Black British women
Smart digital strategies for fashion SME's adoption of immersive e-tailers
Photographic practice and the status of superposition
Indigenous arctic fish skin heritage