Projects

"We believe that collaboration and interdisciplinary learning are key to addressing the challenges of sustainability," says Karen, another workshop organiser. "By bringing together experts from different fields, we hope to foster meaningful dialogue and inspire innovative solutions."

Co-chair panel discussion Session 2: Exploring the current issues of plastic use within the context of fashion and textiles and the role of plastics in the future at the Revolution Plastics Conference at the University of Portsmouth. 

Our BA Fashion Marketing students met Yoko, the co-founder of @worryclubcollective. Yoko’s visit supported our BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing  module, Critiquing Fashion where we discuss body image, representation, self-esteem and mental health and gave our 1st-year students knowledge, support and inspiration to follow their fashion brand journeys authentically.

I volunteered to teach on UoP Global’s International Summer School offering our students confidence-building overseas group travel. Targeting those who might not usually consider or have access to a longer-term study/ work placement abroad. This innovative programme consisted of a high-energy, team-building activities on an interdisciplinary four-week programme in Peccioli, Italy.

A case study linking Principles to Practice: Enhancing Student Employability. “The investment takes a longer term transformative cultural view in developing graduates specialist skills for the fashion industry.”

Embedding Employability into the Curriculum short talk at the Employability Conference 2023 based on my journal paper ‘Digital Fashion – Exploring The Impact Of An Integrated Graduate Internship Programme In Higher Education’ in session five, exploring the tools and techniques to enhance employability.

Size? Syllabus sets out to identify, nurture and offer a platform to creative talent at an early stage to help it flourish by providing students with unmissable work experience through real life briefs.