Associate Professor
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Biography

Background I worked in Milan across many fields of the creative industries, from advertising, production manager at Vogue Italy in Milan and as a freelance writer. I hold  a PhD from Griffith University on the historical imagination in Italian cinema. My research sits at the intersection of place, culture, and industry and I have published in several journals on a range of topics that include cultural representations, fashion, place and national identity, and wool. I have 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.  My current research  include sustainability,  circularity and place and space, second-hand clothing practices and justice. My  methodological approach is underpinned by interdisciplinarity and the culture-industry nexus. I am  co-leader of TextileR: The future of fashion group at the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, and also co-leader of the Circularity programme at the QUT Resilience Centre. I have engaged in consultancy with industry and government, producing strategy and analysis for a transition to circular economy in textiles.