Harriet Wadsworth, Senior Lecturer

Harriet Wadsworth

Senior Lecturer

Harriet Wadsworth is a senior academic and PhD student working in the field of fashion. Her background is in fashion design, pattern cutting, and fashion buying. She has worked for COS, Zandra Rhodes, Ashish, Ideology Boutique and more.

Harriet’s PHD research focuses on key globally impacting issues such as:

  • Fashion consumption
  • Textile waste
  • Sustainable design
  • Sustainable production
  • Upcycling

This research focuses on textile waste, the impact this has on the planet and how the use of incorporating creative yet desirable forms of repair, reuse, repurpose, remanufacture and recycling can add to the decrease in fast fashion and help the worlds mammoth textile waste problem to shrink.

Harriet’s focus is on collecting post-consumer textile waste (old garments and textiles, bedding, furnishings, etc) that is unlikely to resell. Distributing the textiles to designers who reused in order to create new long-lasting garments. Marketing and selling the products and measuring the success of this output.

Current Teaching

  • BA (Hons) Fashion
  • MA Fashion

Research Interests

Creating a textile recycling area to be used by Harriet’s PHD collaborators and the wider LSA school. This will aid Art & Design educational development, localised employment and micro business building. All of these areas will in turn aid recruitment to our university and educate our staff and students to take a more sustainable approach to sampling and product creation.

Harriet Wadsworth, Senior Lecturer

Ask Me About

  1. Business
  2. Coaching
  3. Design
  4. Education
  5. Marketing
  6. Public relations
  7. Recycling