The highly successful SuperWASP planetary transit finding programme has surveyed a large fraction of both the northern and southern skies. There now exists in its archive over 420 billion photometric measurements for more than 31 million stars. SuperWASP provides good quality photometry with a precision exceeding 1% per observation in the approximate magnitude range 9 < V < 12. The archive enables long-baseline, high-cadence studies of stellar variability to be undertaken. An overview of the SuperWASP project is presented, along with results which demonstrate the survey's asteroseismic capabilities.

The searches for transiting exoplanets have produced a vast amount of time-resolved photometric data of many millions of stars. One of the leading ground-based surveys is the SuperWASP project. We present the initial results of a survey of over 1.5 million A-type stars in the search for high frequency pulsations using SuperWASP photometry. We are able to detect pulsations down to the 0.5 mmag level in the broad-band photometry. This has enabled the discovery of several rapidly oscillating Ap stars and over 200 δ Scuti stars with frequencies above 50 d−1, and at least one pulsating sdB star. Such a large number of results allows us to statistically study the frequency overlap between roAp and δ Scuti stars and probe to higher frequency regimes with existing data.

HD75445 was recently announced by Kochukhov et al. (2009) to be a low-amplitude roAp star, based on spectroscopic measurements. We present putative pulsation frequencies of HD75445 determined from 22 hours of Johnson B photometry obtained in 2008, 2009 and 2010. We present the first photometric periodicities detected in this star. We make a marginal detection of one of Kochukhov et al. (2009)'s spectroscopic periods, along with a range of confidently detected periodicities covering the low-frequency end of the roAp instability spectrum and the high-frequency end of the Delta Scuti instability spectrum.

Chemically Peculiar (CP) stars have been the subject of systematic research for more than 50 years. With the discovery of pulsation of some of the cool CP stars, and the availability of advanced spectropolarimetric instrumentation and high signal-to-noise, high resolution spectroscopy, a new era of CP star research emerged about 20 years ago. Together with the success in ground-based observations, new space projects are developed that will greatly benefit future investigations of these unique objects. In this contribution we will give an overview of some interesting results obtained recently from ground-based observations and discuss the future outstanding Gaia space mission and its impact on CP star research.