Research Staff
LCF staff have extensive research, consultancy and professional experience within a wide range of specialist areas and enjoy close links with the media and fashion industries.
Research activity within the fashion media and cultural field encompasses curation and exhibition of fashion and fashion photography at international venues, contributions to the global fashion press, editorships of major research and trade journals, and well established links with museums such as the V&A.
Key profiles:
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Professor Helen Thomas, Research Director
Helen is the Research Director at LCF, research interests: Body, dance, sociology of culture -
Helen Storey MBE, Professor of Fashion and Science, Co Director Centre for Fashion/Science
Helen's research interests are New Technologies, Emotional Literacy, Human Well-Being -
Professor Reina Lewis, Artscom Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies
Research Interests: Feminist Postcolonial Studies, the figure of the Muslim woman, veiled or unveiled; Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Culture -
Lucy Orta, Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment
International Contemporary Visual Artist -
Charlotte Hodes, Senior Research Fellow
Charlotte's research interests are Drawing, papercut, working on to ceramic -
Amy de la Haye, Reader in Material Culture and Fashion Curation
Amy's research interests include fashion and dress history from 1900 onwards -
Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology
Sandy's researches Knitwear, fashion and textiles design, 3D design, new technologies, Interdiscipl -
Frances Corner, Professor of Art and Design Education
Frances is the Head of College she researches Sustainability, Fashion consumption, Design Education -
Professor Penny Martin, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery
Penny Martin is a curator and writer on fashion photography