Associate Professor
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Fashion
Biography
Background Tiziana has worked in Milan across many fields of the creative industries, from advertising, production manager at Vogue Italy in Milan and as a freelance writer. She holds a PhD from Griffith University on the historical imagination in Italian cinema. Tiziana's research sits within place, culture, and industry and has published in several journals on a range of topics that include cultural representations and place, fashion and national identity, Australian wool history, and fashion and place. Tiziana has been engaged in community work from 1989, with communities of women workers in the textile and clothing industry in India, and later with Australian Aboriginal communities in Queensland. Her current research include sustainability, circularity and place and space, second-hand clothing and justice. Tiziana's methodological approach is underpinned by interdisciplinarity and the culture-industry nexus. Tiziana is co-leader of TextileR: The future of fashion group at the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, and is co-leader of the Circularity programme at the QUT Resilience Centre.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Fashion
Keywords
Fashion sustainability, Circular Economy, Fashion studies, Circular cities, Fashion Design Theory, costume design
Research field
Cultural Studies, Design Practice and Management, Communication and Media Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, GAICD.
Teaching
Tiziana has taught across the Fashion Communication Major. Currently, Tiziana teaches fashion history and theory, Design Consequences, as part of the Bachelor of Design, and Design Ethics and impacts, in the Master's of Strategic Design.
Experience
Tiziana's scholarly knowledge and professional expertise is translated in her teaching across many aspects of fashion communication. She is an Australian Research Council Assessor, a regular peer reviewer for many refereed journals, and an editorial member of two Intellect publications, Clothing Cultures and Studies in Costume and Performance, and of ZoneModa Journal. Tiziana has engaged with Aboriginal communities in the Cape York Peninsula.
Tiziana has engaged with the Brisbane City Council to report on sustainable procurement, and Salvos to report on socio-economic benefits of circularity in textiles in Queensland. She was on the advisory board of the National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme, which led to the national policy in clothing and textile Seamless.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Tiziana, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
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I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
- Road map to local circular communities: strategies, barriers, enablers.
- Local sustainable procurement to support a circular local industry in fashion and textiles
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Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Genderqueer Fashion Models and their Representations of Gender in Visual Culture (2019)
- Fashioning Business: Updating Support for Local, Small-Scale Independent Fashion Designers (2018)
- In Search of Authorship: The Role of the Costume designer in characterisation-three case studies of Australian Screen Costume Design (2018)
- Designing fashion: An exploration of practitioner research within the university environment (2014)
- Fashion in Shanghai: The Designers of a New Economy of Style (2014)
- Design, Sustainability and Australian Mass-Market Fashion: Three Case Studies (2013)