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Fashion and Textiles
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Dr Philip Breedon
School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Subject(s): Design, Fashion and Textiles, Science, Technology, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Materials; Product Design; Smart Design; Smart Packaging; Technical textiles; Wearable electronics; Clinical/medical devices; Technologies (new and emerging); Robotics
Dr Amanda Briggs-Goode
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): Design, Fashion and Textiles
Area(s) of expertise: Lace; Printed textiles; Textile design
Professor Tim Cooper
School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Subject(s): Consumerism, Design, Fashion and Textiles, The Environment and Geography, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Consumer behaviour; Sustainable consumption; Sustainable design; Environmental policy (product policy; waste reduction); Product lifetimes; Environmental ethics (eco-theology)
Professor Tilak Dias
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): Fashion and Textiles, Technology
Area(s) of expertise: Textiles (Electronically Active Textiles - EAT); Textiles (knitted medical textiles; Knitting)
Professor Tom Fisher
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): History, Design, Fashion and Textiles, The Environment and Geography, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Crafts; Packaging; Design (sustainable design); Clothing (sustainable clothing); Care and maintenance (history of); Plastics (in everyday life); Waste; Pollution
Dr Alison Goodrum
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): Fashion and Textiles
Area(s) of expertise: Fashion (and its influence on identity - class, race, age, gender); Fashion (and national identity); Fashion (and rural costume/clothing)
Alex Hiller
Nottingham Business School
Subject(s): Consumerism, Fashion and Textiles
Area(s) of expertise: Consumer activism; Consumer behaviour; Consumer ethics; Customer service; Customer values; Ethical consumption (especially in the clothing market); Buying decisions (especially in the clothing market)
Lynn Oxborrow
Nottingham Business School
Subject(s): Business, Fashion and Textiles, Marketing, Retail, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Marketing and supply chain in the fashion and textiles industry; Creative industries in the East Midlands; New retail store concepts; Retail business (specialising in small to medium-sized enterprises); Retail supply chain management; Sustainable products and processes in SMEs
Dr Judith Rowbotham
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Crime, Emergency Services, Fashion and Textiles, History, International Relations
Area(s) of expertise: Crime and criminality imagery; Gender and crime; Violence and gender; Public disorder; Police and policing society; Jack the Ripper/Victorian Whitechapel; Victorian murders; Victorian feminism, women’s dress and parlour song; Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; British Colonial Office, C19th; British colonialism and constitutional history; British Empire and colonial constitutions; Missionaries and Empire; War crimes in the British Empire; War crimes and historical developments
Dr Katherine Townsend
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): Fashion and Textiles, Design, Sustainability, Technology
Area(s) of expertise: Design (sustainable design); Textiles (digital and hand crafted approaches); Postgraduate opportunities (in fashion, textile, knitwear, and craft related subjects); Textile exhibitions; Textiles
