Chelsea College of Arts researchers and their areas of art and design expertise.
Dr Danah Abdulla
Reader in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Practices and Praxes
- Design cultures (with a particular focus on the Arab region).
- Decolonising design and politics of design.
- Design education and critical pedagogy.
- New design narratives and practices pushing disciplinary boundaries.
Claire Anderson
Course Leader - Graduate Diploma Textile Design
- Colour and textiles.
- Democratised textile technologies.
- Responsible textile and material futures.
Dr Michael Asbury
Reader in Theory and History of Art
- Art history and theory.
- Modernism and contemporary art in Brazil.
Dr Dave Beech
Reader in Art and Marxism
- Art, capitalism and Marxism.
- Value theory, labour and automation.
- Public sphere and participation.
- Institutional critique and the history of art’s institutions.
Professor Sonia Boyce
Chair of Black Art and Design
- Art as social practice, fine art practice and drawing.
Jo Bruton
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Fine art.
- Painting.
- Gender.
- Abstraction.
- Installation.
Dr Mohini Chandra
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Decolonisation.
- Globalisation.
- Empire and place.
- Postcolonial diaspora experience.
- Photography, memory and the archive.
- Moving image and installation practice.
- Marine archaeology and shipwrecks.
Dr Andrew Chesher
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- History and criticism of post-war, neo-avant-garde and contemporary art in Europe and North America; phenomenology; deconstruction; social theories of meaning, film and documentary; photography.
Dr Jason Cleverly
Course Leader - BA Product and Furniture Design
- Art and science.
- Craft.
- Design ethnography.
- Design theory.
- Museum interpretation.
Professor Paul Coldwell
Professor of Fine Art Printmaking
- Collections and archives.
- Printmaking - new and old technologies.
- Fine art.
David Cross
Reader in Fine Art
- Fine art, context specific sculptural installation and photography.
Dr Matthew Crowley
Senior Lecturer in Textile Design
- Masculinities (gender studies).
- British cultural history / cultural studies.
- Class (representations).
Professor Neil Cummings
Professor of Fine Art
- Political economy of art.
- Critical practice.
- Activism.
- Resilience.
Jeffrey Dennis
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Fine art, painting, drawing, meaning and process in contemporary painting.
Sarah Dobai
Reader in Photography, Text and Film-based Practice
- Contemporary photography and moving image practices.
- Representation and the use of text / narrative in contemporary fine art practice and relation to historical works of literature, cinema and photography.
Bernice Donszelmann
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Architecture and spatial practice.
- Installation.
- Fine art.
Professor Becky Earley
Professor of Circular Design Futures
- Sustainable and circular design practice.
- Textiles for fashion, interiors and automotive.
- New materials, applications and business models.
- Design-driven and social research methods for collaborations.
Ben Fitton
Course Leader - BA Fine Art
- Site specificity.
- Politics of spectatorship.
- Public address.
- Uncertainty and indeterminacy.
- Appropriation, substitution and mimicry.
- Language, consciousness and sculpture.
Dr Edwina Fitzpatrick
Research Degrees Coordinator
- Sited artwork and mutable sculpture, living environment, mutability and change.
Adrian Friend
Programme Director - Material and Spatial Practices
- Citizen builder.
- Robotic craft.
- Collaborative robotics.
- 3D-printed earth-based material research.
- Museology.
Professor Kate Goldsworthy
Professor of Circular Design and Innovation
- Circular and sustainable textile design practice.
- Design-led material innovation.
- New textile production and finishing technologies.
- Multi-disciplinary methodologies.
Professor Paul Goodwin
Chair of Contemporary Art and Urbanism
- Theory and practice of the curatorial, especially in relation to the global and transnational.
- African and diaspora contemporary art and visual cultures.
Lucy Gunning
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Site, context, space.
- Performativity.
- Installation / event.
Dr Peter Hall
Reader in Graphic Design
- Mapping and visualisation as critical and participatory practices.
Dr Rosie Hornbuckle
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Complex Design Collaborations
- Complex design collaborations.
- Systemic design.
- Multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research.
- Design methodologies.
- Circular design.
- Sustainable design.
- Design for net zero.
- Materials design.
- Translational design.
Professor Jo Melvin
Professor of Fine Art and Feminisms
- Archives, embodiment, oral histories and conceptual art practices.
- Exhibition curation as praxis; devising new research methodologies.
David Musgrave
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Practice and theory of image making.
- Narrative fiction.
- Entanglement of art, technology and science.
- Social and artistic impact of Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Malcolm Quinn
Professor of Cultural and Political History and Associate Dean of Research
- Taste, aesthetics and design.
- Utilitarianism and aesthetics.
Professor Daniel Sturgis
Professor of Painting
- Fine art painting, curation, the histories of abstraction, modernism and the baroque.
Dr Mo Throp
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
- Sexuality, gender and intersectionality.
- Performativity, trauma.
Professor Carol Tulloch
Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism
- Dress and textiles associated with the African diaspora, material and visual culture, writing and curating.
Dr Maria Walsh
Reader in Artists Moving Image
- Artists' moving image practices, especially in relation to subjectivity, the body, performativity and marginality.
- Psychoanalytic discourse as a model for auto-fiction, especially in moving image practices.
Dr Ken Wilder
Reader in Spatial Design
- Beholding, aesthetics and situated art.
- Architectural / spatial design practices and aesthetics.