Here you can connect with UCL academics working on or with creative and critical practices.
If you would like to be listed on this page please email lucy.stagg@ucl.ac.uk
UCL researchers
- Tim Beasley-Murray (Arts Sciences), Director of the PhD in Creative Critical Writing and Academic Director of the Creative Humanities BA
- Rebecca Birch (Arts Sciences), Lecturer in Creative Arts and Humanities Moving Image Practice at UCL and is an artist, film maker and researcher.
- Nicole Brown (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media), a social researcher and author, whose expertise lies with social research practice, in particular physical and material representations of experiences.
- Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes (IAS), art historians, curators and co-directors of the Post-socialist Art Centre (PACT). Interested in art, ecology and climate change.
- Haidy Geismar (Anthropology), new forms of cultural representation, the affects and effect of digitisation, the anthropology of art, critical museology.
- Kristina Glushkova (UCL Enterprise), leads on innovation and partnership initiatives that bring industry and UCL experts together to develop strategic collaboration opportunities in the creative and cultural sectors.
- Humera Iqbal (UCL Social Research Institute), a social and cultural psychologist interested in how arts and creative practices can help foster wellbeing.
- Dalia Iskander (Anthropology), a medical anthropologist, interested in creativity, craft, art, play and health; creative practice and pedagogy.
- Eric Langley (English), academic and creative writer
- Leah Lovett (Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), an artist and researcher developping arts-led approaches to bridge knowledge systems and enable community and stakeholder participation
- Michał Murawski (Slavonic and East European Studies), an anthropologist of architecture and of cities, focuses on the complex social lives of monumental buildings.
- Florian Mussgnug (SELCS), Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, interested in intermediality, interdisciplinarity and co-creative research.
- Mathelinda Nabugodi (SELCS), bringing together literary criticism with museums and archives. Also various initiatives aiming to create a space for community and exchange around creative critical or experimental forms of academic writing.
- James O'Leary (Bartlett), Associate Professor of Architecture, interested in exploring the fertile territories where the discipline of architecture cross-pollinates with the other creative arts, addressing key emerging issues in contemporary culture and exploring the sites where these issues are made manifest.
- Deborah Padfield (Slade), a visual artist specialising in lens-based media and intersectional practice and research within Fine Art and Medicine.
- Kieren Reed (Slade), Professor of Fine Art, his practice encompasses sculpture, performance and installation, from studies in form to the production of architectural structures.
- Jane Rendell (Bartlett), Professor of Critical Spatial Practice, combining architecture, art, feminism, history and psychoanalysis.
- Marquard Smith (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media), curator, editor, and commissioner, combining arts education, artistic research and archives, with the future of the human in visual and material culture.
- Uta Staiger (European Institute), Associate Professor of European Studies, looking at politics and aesthetics in the ideational and cultural dimensions of politics and policy in Europe.
- Michael Stewart (Anthropology), integrating visual and textual anthropology, with contributions to practice-based research that double as outreach/ engagement.
- Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (SELCS), Professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature, i nterested in the inter-dependence of literature and materiality, literature and society - how publication formats, print cultures and visual cultures make literature 'matter'.
- Gregory Thompson (Arts Sciences), an award winning theatre director creating productions that combine ensemble performances with innovative stagings and actor-audience relationships.
- Temenuga Trifonova (Arts Sciences), Creative Writing (fiction), Film Theory and Criticism, Aesthetic Theory, Cinema and the City, Screenwriting.
UCL PhD students
- Albert Brenchat Aguilar (Bartlett), conducting history-based, critical theory-led research on 20th and 21st century architecture and material culture.