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- Qualifications:MA, FHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Fashion Textiles
- Department:ACE - Art and Design
- Telephone:+441179656261
- Email:Lizzie.Harrison@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am Senior Lecturer and researcher in the field of Sustainable Fashion and Fashion Futures with a interest in how we live well with clothing.
I have a wealth of experience teaching across and between design disciplines exploring with undergraduate, post graduate and PhD students the approaches, methods and skills need to design with and for sustainable and inclusive futures. At UWE Bristol I am working with BA Fashion Textiles students exploring the Futures of Fashion with Level 5. At the University of Bristol I was Unit Director for interdisciplinary modules for ‘Creative Futures, tools to change the world’ Level 4 and ‘In the Wild’ Level 7 working with students from a range of engineering, humanities, social science and science BA, BSc, MA and MSc programs. Further postgraduate teaching includes contributing to MA Fashion Futures, London College of Fashion and running the sustainability tutorial program for SustainRCA at the Royal College of Art. My interest in design pedagogies is in how we meet the future learning needs in a changing world which I have explored through co-creating By the Fire a fashion teaching gatherings and as an academic fellow for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation while working at the RCA. I am an HEA fellow.
Area of expertise
My current research projects are Towards Prefigurative Fashion (2025-27) funded by the Vice Chancellors Early Career Researcher Award and explores alternative fashion systems create by communities to serve their own fashion needs and Laundry Justice (2022-2024), funded by the Brigstow Institute explores off grid clothing care with vehicle dwellers in Bristol. All of my work is co-produced with diverse communities and I have a wider interest in creative and participatory methodologies that support new ways of thinking about or imagining the future. This has recently included ritual making as a speculative method and critical making through circus performance. I am a member of UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre.
I am an award winning social entrepreneur, receiving the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Entrepreneurs and a Guardian Sustainable Business Award Finalist. A graduate from the School of Social Entrepreneurs, my work is socially engaged and I have co-founded four UK based fashion social enterprises. I have shared my work on fashion and communities in Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Fashion, at a global Microsoft Conference in New York and in the House of Commons. My fashion studio based around localism has been supported by the UK Fashion & Textiles Association to show fashion collections in Berlin Fashion Week over 4 seasons and has been written about in leading sustainable fashion books. I have co-curated exhibitions including my own work in the London Design Festival, Arnolfini and Temporary Contemporary and contributed to the Care Pavilion at London Design Biennial 2023.
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