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Miss Laura Dickinson

Job: Lecturer in Fashion Communication and Styling

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Fashion and Textiles

Address: Â鶹ƵµÀ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 201 3912

E: laura.dickinson@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Laura Dickinson is a Fashion Educator and Interdisciplinary Artist broaching fashion, music, poetry and film. Her work uses fashion as a tool, forming connections between public and social issues. Her current and ongoing research project “There’s Still Life Here” focuses on urban gentrification in the east midlands and how we can use participatory arts practice within communities to educate and co-create social policy.

Research interests/expertise

Fashion, Music, Poetry, Participatory Arts, Social Policy, Community-Based Research, Gentrification

Areas of teaching

Fashion Communication and Styling

Qualifications

  • BA(hons) Fashion Design
  • PGCAP
  • FHEA

Courses taught

BA Fashion Communication & Styling, MA Fashion and Textiles

Projects

"There's Still Life Here" - Installation and ongoing participatory artwork exploring fashion, music, poetry and film as tools to connect public with policy

"We Are Unbolting The Street Signs" - Interdiciplinary Exhibition and Publication using the arts to raise awareness of urban gentrification and its impact on communities

Internally funded research project information

"We Are Unbolting The Street Signs", ADH Research Innovation Office, Exhibition and Publication Output, Feb-June 2023

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