Research in Media Arts and Play – News

Artefacts from IOE’s social research and policy impact feature in UCL’s Two Centuries Here exhibition, exploring UCL’s past, present and future since its founding.

How can we sustain creative futures in our local communities?

How do you support the next generation of creative leaders?

In this episode, we hear about the cultural landscape within the Olympic boroughs, and the evolution that has occurred in the wake of the 2012 Olympics.

There is no form of culture or society without music – it's something that's part of us all. We take a look at the power of music, and how it intersects with technology, health and wellbeing.

Those in creative sectors have made it loud and clear that there’s been a lack of funding and a disregard for the arts in the school curriculum.

Throughout 2024 the UCL Knowledge Lab, one of the world’s leading centres in human learning, media and technology, is celebrating its 20-year history of innovative, interdisciplinary research.

UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) new Media BA programme has been launched in an event featuring three-time Academy Award winner Walter Murch.

Play can mean everything, and sometimes nothing at all – and that’s ok. Research for the Real World dips into the highly imaginative realm of children’s play.

On the 10 January, Dr John Potter from UCL Knowledge Lab presented a keynote speech at the Film and Media for Education Conference at Tallinn University in Estonia.