Fashion and Textiles staff
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Dean Fallon
Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Dean is a full-time Fashion Design Lecturer at BCU and Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), with lecturing experience since 2012. Furthermore, Dean’s career outside of teaching spans over a decade, from design roles for High St suppliers and independent labels, to Creative Director of an independent streetwear...
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Adam Francis
Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Communication
Adam is a Senior Lecturer in BA (Hons) Fashion Communication at Birmingham City University. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a background in menswear, fashion visualization and socially conscious messaging that informs a teaching practice. Adam is currently developing a body of research around digital fashion...
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Helen Grainger
Lecturer in BA (Hons) Fashion Communication
Helen has 13 years of experience working as a Senior Creative Manager for international fashion retail brands such as Urban Outfitters. She has been heavily involved in creative project management, specialising in store openings, store re-fits and spatial planning. Her industry career has provided insights into all forms of...
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Adam Guy
Course Leader and Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Fashion Communication
Adam is a Creative Director and educator who works across print and moving image. He has 25 years working with music industry clients at Radio 1, 1Xtra and art directed print publications for fashion publishers such as EMAP. Adam was a founding member of the motion graphics studio Mainframe. More recently Adam has enjoyed...
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Julie Haynes
Senior Fashion Technician
Julie works for Fashion Design and has many years of sewing experience having worked in the industry on mass production, with experiences in roles such as a sample machinist and supervisor. She also has experience with working on alterations from tailored garments to evening wear and many others. Julies role as a technician...
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Zoë Hillyard
Senior Lecturer | BA (Hons) Textile Design
Zoë Hillyard is a Senior Lecture and Course Leader for BA(Hons) Textile Design at Birmingham City University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has over 20 years of lecturing experience in both national and international contexts. Zoe is also an established textile artist craft practitioner...
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Lucinda Holbrook-Hase
Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Lucinda is a Pattern Cutting Lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with 7 years lecturing experience in HE. She began teaching fashion design and pattern cutting in 2008 at both further education and vocational education courses. Teaching Fashion, Costume and Millinery, she also was the Course Lead for a...
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Jo Hurley
Lecturer - BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion
Jo has experience working within the world of consumer trends for The Future Laboratory. Working across projects for Marks & Spencer, Olay and Thomas Pink. This has provided creative insight with a focus on qualitative and quantitative analysis highlighting market trends. With a love for vintage clothing, Jo had a fashion...
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Jasbir Kaur
Director of Postgraduate Studies in Fashion and Textiles
Jasbir is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Fashion and Textiles. Her early career began in commercial textile design, before moving into fashion research, and is now an internationally published author in the area of textiles, and the interrelationship between that and fashion.
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Clare Langford
Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Textile Design
Clare Langford is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Textile Design course and Outreach Coordinator at BCU. She has taught in higher education for over 24 years, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and holds a PGCert in Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. She has a background as a designer maker...