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The UAL Postgraduate Community programme provides access to cross-college and cross-disciplinary opportunities, events and networking for postgraduate taught and research students. 
LATEST NEWS:

Iniva to Relocate to
Chelsea College of Arts

Collaboration to advance debate on race, culture and gender


Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and UAL are delighted to announce that Iniva is moving to the campus of UAL’s Chelsea College of Arts, in September 2018.

The Stuart Hall Library is the critical and creative hub for Iniva’s pioneering programme that challenges conventional notions of difference and diversity. Its move to the Chelsea College of Arts campus will establish further space to develop Iniva’s collection of over 10,000 books and journals. A new dedicated archive area will be created alongside flexible spaces for events. Designed to generate discussion and encourage collaboration, these activities will be open to everyone.

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NEW ARTICLES ON THE PG COMMUNITY BLOG:
DRAW event with
Professor Anita Taylor

By Lucy Gerorge,
MA Drawing, Wimbledon

"Our latest DRAW event showcased the knowledge, experimentation and emotion behind the visual research of the graduating 2018 MA Drawing students at Wimbledon College of Art.  This year’s MA show filled the space with the imagination and questioning of twelve of the newest up and coming artists who interrogate the extended field of drawing..."

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Are you a UAL postgraduate student or alumni and interested in writing an article for the Postgraduate Community Blog? Want to share results of a recent project, residency, or an interesting event you have visited? Then get in touch!  90% of the articles on the blog are written by postgrads for postgrads. 

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OPPORTUNITIES:
Ligatus Summer School 2018
National Library of Greece in Athens
Week 1: 15-19 October 2018
Week 2: 22-26 October 2018

Ligatus Research Centre is part of the Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate School. It is interested in the history of bookbinding, book conservation, archiving and digital technology in these fields.

This year’s Summer School is hosted at the National Library of Greece in Athens. The school consists of two weeks, which can be booked separately. Week 1 is about is about European Bookbinding from 1450-1830 and Week 2 is about identifying and recording bookbinding structures of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Anyone who is interested in bookbinding and conservation is welcome.
Each week costs £300.

Discover more about Ligatus and their work on their website

Find out more and apply online

Contact Chloe Griffith, Ligatus Summer School Research Administrator, for more information.
 

Artist in Residence
William Morris Gallery
Deadline: 13 October 2018


An opportunity for an artist to immerse themselves in the Gallery's world-class collection for three months. Aimed at emerging or mid-career visual artists working in any medium or discipline, they are looking for proposals which approach Morris and his legacy in new ways. The residency is designed to encourage artists to be experimental

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Wanted: Digital innovations
and tech ideas

Global Change Award

Deadline: 17 October 2018


Innovative technology is crucial for speeding up the transition to a circular fashion industry. It’s within tech the biggest changes can be made that can have a real positive impact on the planet. 

What’s your idea?

Find out more about the Global Change award
POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SHARES:

Bound
Preview: 28 September 2018 6pm-9pm
Exhibition continues:
29 Sept - 20 Oct 2018
Weds to Sat,12pm-6pm

Peer, 99 Hoxton Street, N1 6QL


A showcase exhibition of four artists completing the Acme Graduate Programme, including work by Chelsea and CSM postrgraduate alumni, Alex Urie and James Tailor.

This exhibition marks PEER’s third year of partnership with Acme, offering artists the chance to exhibit at an acclaimed gallery and benefit from the opportunity to work with its small professional team. This year’s graduates include work by three artists for whom painting forms a central part of their practice and an artist who works across performance and sound.

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Fail Better - Opening night!
9 October 2018, 7pm- 9pm

Room C303, CSM, N1C 4AA


A monthly symposium giving voice to 4 intrepid speakers; students, tutors and working designers who will speak candidly of their worst ever creative work, and more importantly, what they've learned from it.

Speakers:

  • ABBI FLETCHER Post-Grad Community Coordinator and visual artist, her passion lies in pushing the boundaries of textiles and expanding the properties of materials.
  • DR. REBECCA ROSS Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins and leads the programme's MA.
  • SARAH HYNDMAN British graphic designer, writer and public speaker specialising in multi-sensory typography and known for her interest in the psychology of type.
  • CRAIG OLDHAM  Known for his teaching, writing, curating and consulting, and for publishing award-winning books.
Find out more and book

Soulless, A Fireball is Turning
04 October 2018, 5pm - 7pm

The Serving Library at Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool John Moores University,
Liverpool L3 5RD


Join MA Culture, Criticism and Curation at CSM, for an evening of film screenings and discussion exploring artistic and political engagements in Liverpool Biennial 2018.

For several months the students have been researching themes related to the Biennial. The project is testing the possibilities of filmmaking as a way of communicating curatorial research.

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RAWAN MAKI: Off LFW: EXPOSURE
6 October 2018, 2pm - 8pm

Easton Regal, 84 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RF


Join UAL PhD student Rawan Maki for a post London Fashion Week collection launch and sample sale.
 
Find out more and RSVP
 
EVENTS AIMED AT POSTGRADUATE AUDIENCES:
Survey - Private View Invitation
2 October 2018, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, SE1 0LN
A major new exhibition presenting new works by 15 early-career artists from across the UK. Artists have been selected from nominations made by over 50 established artists, between them covering each UK region, to seek the most outstanding and dynamic early-career artists making work currently, who are within five years of establishing their practice.

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RSVP
Rainer Ganahl: Comme des Marxists
Private View: 4 October 2018, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition continues: 5 October 2018 –
12 January 2019

Fashion Space Gallery,
LCF
, John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ
This exhibition continues Austrian born New York based artist Rainer Ganahl’s long-term investigations into the relationships between daily life, culture, economic systems and political structures. A contemporary analysis of how capitalism works, injecting humour into Ganahl’s connections between class struggle, politics, design, and consumerism.

Find out more
RSVP for the private view
The Waiting Room
Opening: 4 October 2018, 5pm - 8pm
Exhibition continues: 1 October –
2 November 2018

Wimbledon Space Gallery,
Wimbledon College of Arts
, SW19 3QA
The Waiting Room responds to the psycho-geography of Wimbledon Space – the original 1930’s foyer of the College. The foyer acts as a transitory space, where one might make a stop before being directed elsewhere. A place to gather our thoughts before our appointment, a portal to a new beginning, a moment where we have nothing to do but wait.

Curated by Karen David

Find out more
 
UAL PhD OPEN EVENINGS 2018
09 Oct - 18 Oct 2018, 6pm-8pm

LCC, CCW, CSM, LCF
Thinking about doing a PhD?

This is an invitation to prospective research degree applicants to attend an open evening/s to find out more about Research Degrees at UAL and to meet staff and students involved with the research degree programme across the 6 colleges:

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Modernism: Making, Place & Protest
3 November 2018, 9:30am - 7:30pm

Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS


This one-day symposium connects PhD/ECR students with academics, artists and curators who are working to expand definitions of the decorative in their fields. Keying in to East London's radical history as a site where creativity, feminism, and activism meet, the event explores making place through art, craft and the decorative in modernism's longue durée.

Find out more and book

POSTGRADUATE READING GROUPS:
TEST LAB 2018-19
David Cross on the problems of picturing resilience and sustainability

10 October, 11am-1pm

Room D107, CSM, N1C 4AA

Tackling various processes that constitute a PhD in art and design, Test Lab will be considering the challenges, surprises and achievements involved in the intellectual, practical and emotional aspects of undertaking research.

At this session, David Cross (Reader CCW) will be speaking about his interests in the outcomes of contemporary visual culture, which range from cinema to sculptural installation, from satellite imaging to ‘selfies’ and the processes of visual culture, which encompass the reflective and questioning potential of art, and the problem-solving and communicating potential of design.

Open to all UAL PhD students.

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Book your place

Postgraduate Reading Groups

A growing number of cross-disciplinary postgraduate reading groups are active across the university and are open to all UAL postgraduate students (MA, PGDip, PhD and MPhil) to attend.

Visit the PG Reading Group Directory

POSTGRADUATE COMMUNITY ONLINE:
Postgraduate Community Online
Join thousands of UAL postgraduates and alumni online via our Social Network Channels.
Watch UAL Lectures and films on our YouTube Channel or read articles written by postgrads.  
All links can be found on the Blog.
Meet the Postgraduate Community Student Ambassadors

The UAL Postgraduate Community has Student  Ambassadors at all colleges, as well as an PhD ambassador.

The Student Ambassadors will hel spread the word about the great opportunities available to MA and PhD students at UAL,  plan and deliver postgraduate student events and act as ambassadors and point of contact for the PG Community at each college.

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Join the UAL Mature Student Network

The Mature Student Network is for all students over the age of 25 and is co-managed by the Student Union and Academic Support.

The Mature Student Student Union Rep is Hamish Croker an MA sudent based at LCf who is also this year's OG Office with Arts SU. You can contact him here: mature@su.arts.ac.uk

Join the UAL-Mature Student Network Facebook Group

POSTGRADUATE FUNDING INFORMATION:
Postgraduate Community Project Fund
UAL has made available some funds to assist postgraduate students in organising academic events, projects and cultural interventions; which work to bring together different disciplines within both Postgraduate Taught and Research student bodies at UAL.

Through the Postgraduate Community - Project Fund, students are invited to work collaboratively with students from different colleges and disciplines, on projects which sit under one of the four research themes.

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Arts SU: The Student Initiative Fund 
Arts Students' Union enables students to create their own university experience through The Student Initiative Fund. Using this small supply of money and their in-house expertise, they help students organise all kinds of original and creative events.
You can apply for between £10 and £200 to support a project or event, providing you meet their collaborative criteria.
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The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding 2017-2018
The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding provides advice and information about applying for alternative sources of funding, particularly from charities and trusts.
The Guide was written by two postgraduate students who between them have won over £45,000 from 55 different charity awards. It contains model personal and financial statements, and over 500 links to voluntary sector funding sources.
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UAL SUPPORT SERVICES:
UAL Student Services
Student Services at University of the Arts London includes the Student Advice Service, the Counselling, Health Advice and Chaplaincy service and the Disability Service.
Student Services staff provide a professional, confidential, and free service to UAL students. 
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Academic Support
Academic Support Online is a website for all UAL students. Last year we connected over 11,000 students to the right support at the right time. Our registration system offers tailored face-to-face support with different college and university teams. Our academic resources develop different kinds of creative study:
https://academicsupportonline.arts.ac.uk
English Language Support
Language Development provides a range of English language development opportunities to students who do not have English as their first language.  This includes Course Specific English language classes, Academic English Skills courses, one-to-one tutorials, Holiday Intensive classes, and Language for Academic Studies (an on-line self-study resource).  For more information please visit our blog at:  http://languagecentre.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Careers and Employability
Careers and Employability is the University's dedicated careers and enterprise service. We are here to support students and graduates embark on their professional futures in the creative industries.
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MyUAL is a free app designed for students.  It provides a centralised portal through which you can access information about UAL as well as core digital services such as Moodle, emails and print credit, without the need to login to multiple systems - usaing your UAL login details to gain access once downloaded.
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