Role
Amanda Briggs-Goode is Professor of Textiles and Director of the Fashion and Textiles Research Centre located within the School of Art & Design which includes the following groups: Cultures and Heritage, Sustainable Transitions and Advanced Textiles Research Group (ATRG). Working alongside and supporting colleagues in the three interconnecting research groups our theoretical, creative and technical boundary crossing research generates new understanding of past, present and future textile and fashion systems.
Career overview
After studying for a BA in Design Amanda worked as a textile and wallpaper designer for high street brands and later returned to study for an MA in Computing in Design. This was followed by a PhD ‘A study of Photographic Images, Processes and Computer Aided Textile Design’ at Nottingham Trent University, completed in 1997, which explored innovative digital technologies for printed textiles through creative practice.
Amanda became a lecturer in Design and Visual Culture prior to joining the Textile Design course team as a printed textile design specialist. Later becoming both Principal Lecturer and Course Leader for Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University. She published a key textbook, ‘Printed Textile Design’ and co-edited ‘Textile Design’ with Katherine Townsend for the Textile Institute/Woodhead Publishers. In 2013 Amanda became Head of Department for Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design, leading the BA and MA design courses and initiating an MSc course ‘Material and Technology Futures’. In 2025 Amanda became the Director of the Fashion and Textiles Research Centre.
Research areas
Amanda’s research engages with fashion and textiles through circular and sustainable approaches and textile heritage.
Her work on sustainability has recently included being a co-investigator, alongside UKFT, on a NERC Network+ funded project, Back to Baselines which focused on the skills gap and future needs for the industry to transition to a more sustainable approach and proposed industry and education informed recommendations.
Her work with textile heritage is focused on the Nottingham Trent University Lace Archive with which she has completed projects which engage with pedagogy, history and global connections of this industry. Amanda has published and exhibited widely on lace, heritage and textile design which has included ‘Crafting Anatomies’ and a season of city-wide events called Lace:Here:Now with Nottingham Castle and curated an exhibition ‘Lace Unarchived’ which included work from the NTU archive and from designers, artists and manufacturers of Nottingham Lace. Amanda was Co-I on the project Textile Tales, funded by the Heritage Lottery, enabled the capturing of 55 oral histories from textile workers across the east midlands region with reflections of working lives from across the breadth of the industry between 1980 and 2005.
PhDs completions:
- Donna Claypool – ‘Examining Heritage, Textile Design Knowledge and Practice through the Museum Archive: Creative Interpretation of the Joseph Johnson Collection’ – external supervisor University of Bolton
- Nichola Burton – Women and Lace: Social Change and Design Education in Nottingham after 1943 (DoS)
- Sonia Reynolds – Development of a Novel Method of Fabric Manufacture for Design Practice
- Dilusha Dezoysarajapakse – An Investigation of the Aesthetics and Technologies of Colour Changeable Textile Design (DoS)
- Nicola Donovan - Display and Interpellation: Using and adapting an art practice to generate audiences’ engagement with Nottingham’s lace heritage
- Joy Buttress – Lace in Contemporary Visual Arts: A practice-led investigation
- Katherine Townsend - Transforming shape: a simultaneous approach to the body, cloth and print for garment and textile design
PhD current supervisions:
- Upama Haq - Post-Consumer Synthetic textile waste generation in the UK: An exploration of demographic factors, perception, behavioural drivers of purchasing and disposal
- Uthra Rajgopal – Decolonising UK University Fashion and Textile Archives: Locating South Asia (DoS)
Tonya Outtram – Challenging the de-industrial narrative: East Midlands textile workers 1980-2025 (DoS)
External activity
- Co-chair for the subject association of Fashion and Textile Courses (FTC)
- AHRC reviewer
- Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles.
- Peer Review (Journals) Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice; Craft Research; International Journal of Fashion Design and Technology; Fashion Practice; Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education
- Peer Review (Conferences)IFFTI; FTC; BICCS; Design Research Society
- Peer Review (Publishers) Laurence King, Bloomsbury
- External Examiner (UG/PGT) Norwich University of the Arts, Bath Spa University, Duncan of Jordanstone, Portsmouth University, Chelsea, UAL
- External Examiner (PhD x 11) Glasgow School of Art, De Montford University x 2; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Professional Doctorate), Royal College of Art x 2; Chelsea School of Art; Herriot Watt University; University of Ulster; University of Wolverhampton
- Reviewer for Academic Promotions: RMIT; University of Leeds; Manchester Metropolitan University; University of Manchester; Goldsmiths; University of Edinburgh; University of the Arts Singapore; University of New South Wales, Sydney
Publications
BRIGGS-GOODE, A., BAXTER, G. and CHILDS, J., 2025. Nottingham Trent University lace archive: a tantalising array of gaps within a complex web of threads. Fashion Theory. ISSN 1362-704X
SHAHIDI, A.M., MARASINGHE, K., EBRAHIMI, P., OLIVEIRA, C., PERERA, N., BRIGGS-GOODE, A., DIAS, T. and HUGHES-RILEY, T., 2025. Design considerations for the creation of electronic yarns for wearable health monitoring devices. The Design Journal. ISSN 1460-6925
BRIGGS-GOODE, A., OUTTRAM, T. and DEAN, D., 2022. Lace legacies: how partnerships enhance understanding of craft and heritage. Craft Research, 13 (2), pp. 367-386. ISSN 2040-4689
BRIGGS-GOODE, A., OUTTRAM, T. and DEAN, D., 2021. Heritage and conservation of Nottingham lace through collaboration. Developing partnerships through museums, community, industry and education. FORMakademisk, 14 (2), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1890-9515
COLES, R., BRIGGS-GOODE, A. and BAXTER, G., 2020. Principles and pilfering: Nottingham lace design pedagogy. Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 18 (1), pp. 12-23. ISSN 1475-9756
BRIGGS-GOODE, A., GLAZZARD, M., WALKER, S., KETTLEY, S., HEINZEL, T. and LUCAS, R., 2016. Wellbeing and smart textiles: reflecting on collaborative practices and the design process. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 4 (1), pp. 63-83. ISSN 2051-1787
BRIGGS-GOODE, A., BAXTER, G., OUTTRAM, T. and CHILDS, J., 2024. Nottingham lace: stories of industrial decline and textile heritage. In: J. CIRKLOVÁ, ed., Prague - heritages: past and present - built and social. AMPS Proceedings Series (35.3). AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), pp. 516-524.
TOWNSEND, K., SOLOMON, R. and BRIGGS-GOODE, A., 2020. Introduction: Crafting anatomies. In: K. TOWNSEND, R. SOLOMON and A. BRIGGS-GOODE, eds., Crafting anatomies: archives, dialogues, fabrications. London; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9781350075474
BRIGGS-GOODE, A. and BAXTER, G., 2020. The archived lace body: contemporary artist designer responses. In: K. TOWNSEND, R. SOLOMON and A. BRIGGS-GOODE, eds., Crafting anatomies: archives, dialogues, fabrications. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, -. ISBN 9781350075474
Press expertise
Amanda's areas of expertise are:
- Lace
- Printed textiles
- Textile design
- Textiles
- Textile Heritage
- Fashion and Textile Education