Research Insiders is Arts SU’s student research panel for UAL students who want to share their experiences and help shape change.
Sign up to hear about paid or rewarded research opportunities, including surveys, interviews, focus groups and workshops.
You choose what you take part in, and your feedback helps Arts SU understand what students need, campaign for change, and improve the student experience at UAL.
How do I become an Insider?
Signing up takes less than five minutes.
Complete the form below and we’ll add you to the Research Insiders mailing list. When a relevant opportunity comes up, we’ll send you the details so you can decide whether you’d like to take part.
You can join at any point in the academic year.
Become a Research Insider
What is Research Insiders?
Research Insiders is a community of UAL students who take part in research with Arts SU.
We want to hear from students with different backgrounds, courses, experiences and perspectives. You do not need any previous research experience; just your honest views about student life at UAL.
As a Research Insider, you might be invited to share your thoughts on topics like course costs, creative practice, student spaces, wellbeing, accommodation, commuting, or life at UAL more broadly.
How does it work?
Once you sign up, we’ll contact you when there’s a research opportunity that matches your interests, availability or student experience.
Opportunities could include short surveys, focus groups, interviews, creative workshops or testing new ideas. Each opportunity will explain what’s involved, how long it will take, and what reward is available before you decide whether to take part.
There’s no pressure to take part in everything. You can say yes to the opportunities that work for you and ignore the ones that do not.
Your input will help Arts SU build evidence and push for changes that make UAL better for students.
Recent examples of work we’ve completed with Research Insiders includes Name Your Price (research into the cost of study at UAL) and Art or Algorithm? (research into student experiences of artificial intelligence at UAL).