Partnerships

ARIEL promotes partnerships for research and knowledge exchange between UCL academics and the creative and cultural industries, to drive innovation and cultural enrichment. Together we make new ideas to help our communities.

Interested in partnering with an academic at UCL? Or are you a member of staff looking for an artist or creative practitioner to collaborate with? Contact our research co-ordinator Lucy Stagg at lucy.stagg@ucl.ac.uk to explore your options.

The following are some examples of past and current partnerships, within UCL and with external partners.

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Royal Academy of Music

Music Futures aims to foster a cluster of scholarship and creativity, including research about music as well as research qua creative or performative practice.

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Research in Media Arts and Play

A collaboration with cultural organisations and community groups to develop critical and creative practice in digital media arts, games and play.

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Co-Production Collective

Through the Co-Production Collective, ARIEL supports co-production in research, policy, and practice, in the health context and beyond.

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Creative United

We are co-developing a new social return on investment (SROI) methodology to better measure and communicate Creative United’s impact, and potentially explore how this methodology could be applied elsewhere in the sector.

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People and Nature Lab

An interdisciplinary applied research and teaching partnership developing innovative approaches to tackle the challenges posed by biodiversity loss, global ecosystem degradation and climate change.

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UCL Art Futures

A joint initiative between the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Faculty of Laws and UCL Innovation and Enterprise. Including projects on “AI and Art” and “Protecting and Monetising Creative Intellectual Property”.

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SCCI Partnerships Lab

SCCI Partnerships Lab are extending the space and resources at UCL East to support the creative and cultural sector, and to foster new ways of working together.

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The National Trust

UCL has signed a long-term strategic partnership with the National Trust to help conserve its historical sites and address important heritage challenges.

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Speculative Worlds Research Collective

Imagining unconventional pathways to navigating our present world, alternative translations of the past, and prodigious conceptions of the future

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