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Dr Catherine Glover is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries and the Faculty Director of Access and Participation for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. She lectures on research skills, sustainability, responsibility, fashion promotion and communication, brand strategy, storytelling, journalism, copywriting, editorial publishing and activism. Her educational interests are responsible brand management, neuroeducation, shaping collaborative learning culture, running 'live' collaborative briefs with industry partners, embedding CSR, ESG and EDI principles into organisations, and engaging with current and forecasted systemic issues by initiating transformative social change.
Catherine's research is into transnational brand storytelling, specifically how social and brand communities enact story processes that inspire grassroots action. She has published articles on contemporary legacy stories within heritage institutions, brands Rapha and Harris Tweed, cycling event The Tweed Run, and her role as a madoguchi reporting on British fashion, craft, design and architecture for Japanese avant-garde publication, Hanatsubaki.
Her research has appeared in the Fashion Heritage: Narrative and Knowledge Creation (Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Cantista and Delille, 2023), Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building (Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Cantista and Sábada, 2019).Critical Journal of Fashion and Beauty (11.1), International Journal of Fashion (4.2), Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (22.1). She has presented her research to peer and industry audiences, including at the Global Fashion Conference 2023 and Nostalgia: 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary conference. Dr Glover is currently researching into neuroeducation, responsible fashion, eco-storytelling and mindset and behaviour change.
Prior to academia, Catherine worked for fifteen years in industry as a luxury fashion PR, design journalist, copyeditor, and editorial coordinator in arts publishing. She continues to write and publish autobiographical narratives and fashion poetry.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Fashion, PhD, A Narrative Inquiry into Strategic Fashion Brand Stories, Story Worlds and Storytellers, Northumbria University
1 Sept 2018 → 28 Nov 2024
Award Date: 28 Nov 2024
Arts (general), MRes, Rapha: a case-study inquiry into impassioned luxury brand storytelling, Northumbria University
1 Sept 2015 → 16 Oct 2017
Award Date: 16 Oct 2017
Fashion, BA (Hons), Fashion Communication and Promotion, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design
1 Sept 1997 → 17 Jul 2001
Award Date: 17 Jul 2001
Art and Design (other/general), Diploma, Foundation Studies, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design
1 Sept 1996 → 1 Jul 1997
Award Date: 20 Jul 1997
External Examiner, Glasgow Caledonian University
1 Oct 2024 → 30 Sept 2028
External Examiner, Socially Mobile CIC
1 Jan 2022 → …
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Glover, C. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Glover, C. (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review
Glover, C. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Glover, C. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Glover, C. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Glover, C. (Participant)
Impact: Pedagogic/curricula (within Northumbria), Pedagogic/curricula (beyond Northumbria), Pathway to Impact, Creativity, culture and society, Economic, commercial and technological