Role
Liv Auckland is a Lecturer on Fashion Communication and Promotion BA (Hons). She currently teaches across years one and two, including the optional Trend Forecasting module. Liv is also Module Leader of CoLab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking, which empowers students to take creative risks and develop reflective practice.
Liv’s areas of focus are visual and written communication for fashion, trend and lifestyle, graphic design, and social mobility and impact through creative campaigns.
Career overview
Storytelling has been at the centre of Liv’s professional development. She holds both a BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing and an MA in Creative Writing, both from Nottingham Trent University. As a hands-on creative, Liv has ten years’ experience working in marketing, branding, and communication in the lifestyle industries. Liv has worked on projects in illustration, design, and copywriting in a freelance capacity. Her portfolio includes work with breweries, arts organisations, environment groups, fashion start-ups and freelance individuals.
She is passionate about social justice and the environment, with an interest in how brands, businesses and creatives can be a force for positive change.
Research areas
- The intersections between protest and garment, with a focus on garment slogans through history in the UK.
- Creative writing strategies as a pedagogic tool in visual communication courses.
- Global macro-trends that are influencing and driving new and different behaviours, such as community action for food equity.
External activity
- Climate Fresk facilitator, registered with climatefresk.org
Publications
Contributing illustrator to Throwaway Comments: Lifelong Hurt, Helping you understand the lasting impact of microaggressions, published by Ogilvy Heath and NABS, 2023.
Contributing writer and book designer for Monster, an anthology of creative writing from Nottingham Trent MA students.