Read, Think, Write, Read, Think, Write
The research I have been working on for the last year is aiming to identify how fashion companies are currently trying to communicate ethical/sustainable attributes to the customer at point of sale....
View ArticleTextiles: New Research Strategies
On March 19th 2011, the Textile Society held its first research symposium. The event aimed to facilitate the exchange of research within textiles and I went along as an audience member. I had hoped to...
View ArticleUN Climate Summit and the Place of Ethical Consumption Research
Last week (23rd September 2014) saw the UN Climate Summit, where global leaders from Government, business, finance and civil society came together to announce their commitments to action in areas that...
View Article5 Reasons I Love Fieldwork (and 5 reasons I’m glad it’s over)
I’ve been in my role as a research fellow at Winchester School of Art a year today (happy anniversary to me!). I’m employed on an ESRC project to look at supermarket design and service for the over...
View ArticleFieldwork in China on Grocery Shopping for Over 65s
Arriving at Tsinghua University campus, Beijing I am currently in China! Beijing specifically, but before that I spent a week doing fieldwork in Qingdao and Nanjing (in the Mid/South East). It was...
View ArticleBook Chapter Published – Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies
Edited by Emma Casey (Senior Lecturer Sociology at Kingston) and Yvette Taylor (Professor at Strathclyde), Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies explores the importance of consumption...
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