A posthuman summer
Training is integral to a PhD project. For me this meant applying for leading Posthuman theorist – Professor Rosi Braidotti’s summer school 2022. The prospect was incredibly exciting, Braidotti’s interdisciplinary work is key to the framework and methodology of…
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Exchange Life in Kanazawa University and Japan
Between June and July 2022, I applied for a six-week exchange at Kanazawa University, and participated in the activities of the Urban Planning Laboratory there. My PhD research aims to develop a novel methodological approach for modelling and analyzing…
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Sliding Serendipity
Last June I applied for a Research Support Award (RSA). It was granted and the only condition attached was to contribute a piece to this blog. In my three years at Manchester Met I’ve received an average of one…
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Are Microbes Fashion’s Future?
My PhD was inspired by a chance conversation with a student. After many years working in the textile and garment industry, in 2008 I started lecturing in textile technology and fashion product development at Manchester Met. Several years later…
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