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Dr. Kate Fletcher has been exploring fashion as a positive force for change towards sustainability for the last fifteen years. She has helped develop the concept of ‘slow fashion’ and has championed innovative approaches to developing sustainable fashion products and services with clients including high street retailers, small design-led companies and non-profit organizations.
Kate finished a PhD in 1999 at Chelsea College of Art and Design, investigating sustainable design opportunities in the UK Textile Industry, before working as at Goldsmiths, University of London and now as Reader in Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion. She is the author of the widely acclaimed book, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Dr. Dympna Devine
Dr. Dympna Devine is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University College Dublin, where she is Director of the Structured PhD programme and Chair of post-graduate studies. She lectures in the areas of sociology of education, sociology of childhood and qualitative research methods. Chair of the Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI) research cluster on Children's Rights, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to NOSEB, the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, where she has been appointed as external examiner for research degrees.
She has published nationally and internationally in the areas of Childhood Studies and Children's Welfare; Migration, Ethnicity and Schooling; Gender and Education Management and School Effectiveness and Improvement. An invited expert peer reviewer for the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the period 2008 – 2009 she is currently involved in a number of international research projects in the areas of effective teaching and learning and facilitating migrant parents in schools.
Dympna supervises a team of seven doctoral students on aspects of social inclusion, diversity and schooling; whole school evaluation; and bullying in primary schools. She is General Editor of 'Irish Educational Studies' (Routledge/Taylor and Francis) and member of the international advisory board of the journal 'Children and Society' (Blackwell publishers). Her forthcoming book publication: Immigration and Schooling in Ireland, is due to be published by Manchester University Press.
Prof. Martin Caraher
Prof. Martin Caraher is the Associate Dean/Reader in Food and Health Policy. Martin is Reader in food and health policy in the Centre for Food Policy at City University. He has worked extensively on issues related to food poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies, the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers markets, food deserts & food access, retail concentration and globalisation.
Current research includes:
• The role of local food projects in promoting health.
• Local area access to food in London with work in key London boroughs.
• A review of food projects funded and supported by health authorities in England.
• An evaluation of local food projects in London.
• A review of the planning process nationwide in promoting food projects.
• Cooking skills among young people and the changing nature of food skills and the culinary transition.
• The role of food markets in promoting health and well-being.
• Farmers markets and new selling spaces.
• Food, arts and public spaces.
• The food supply chain and ethics.
Major research projects underway at the moment include a review of cooking skills, mapping fast food outlets on school routes and mapping the affordability and access to foods in local areas. His interests in sustainability come from the perspective of local food chains and the attempts by social enterprises to build sustainability into their work.
Recent policy work has focused on the impact of food advertising on children’s food choices and the impact of advertising regulation. He has been working with colleagues in Australia in the Coalition on Food Advertising to Children, sharing ideas and resources. Along with colleagues in the department he is in contact with a wide range of international academic colleagues and current work included work with colleagues in Australia, Portugal, France, the US and Canada.
Martin has contributed to books on public health and health promotion, including a chapter on international public health in the Oxford Handbook of Public Health.
He sits on the London Food Board which advises the Mayor of London on food in London and the South East Food and Public Health Group. He is also an Associate Member of the National Heart Forum. He also advises and reviews materials and plans for a range of local and statutory organisations dealing with food.
He was a trustee of the Caroline Walker Trust. He regularly appears on TV and radio in relation to food issues. He was a judge on the BBC R4 food awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Martin was the Australian Healthways fellow for 2008 and spent six weeks working in Australia. He is currently collaborating with researchers in Australia, Portugal and the US.
He is a member of the Irish Government’s (safefood) review of local food.