Research Information

My PhD Research

 

I am currently completing a PhD in Fashion & Textiles at RMIT University. My research focuses on exploring how textile waste is being upcycled or remanufactured locally by actors like those I have interviewed, with the goal of understanding these types of practices better. These interviews are part of my data, and I hope that by sharing them through a podcast format, other local creatives can engage with the knowledge they contain, and contribute to the conversation.

 

If you'd like to cite these episodes, you'll find citation information in each episode's show notes, or to cite the series as a whole see below:

English, Julia (2022): Seam Change Podcast. RMIT University. Collection. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.c.5842115 

 

Podcast Engagement

 

As I want to engage other creatives in this discussion around my research, and hear their thoughts on the experiences of those who I have interviewed, I am taking note of engagement with the podcast, either through reviews and other stats available, as well as engagement through my Instagram. Through analysing and adding up your insights and engagement, I’m hoping to get feedback on my research. This might be things like how effective is a podcast format, whether particular aspects of the interviews resonate or not, and how information in the interviews may equip you or others to work in this way. By engaging with the podcast, you are opting in to this part of the research.

If you wish for your identifiable engagement (eg reviews) to be excluded from the research, please contact me via the email listed below. If you have any concerns, please see additional contact information listed.

 

Ethics & Research Enquiries

 

This research has had ethics approval through RMIT University (2021-24506-15223). If you have concerns about the research ethics, you can either contact those listed under contact details, or RMIT Ethics via humanethics@rmit.edu.au

This research is funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

 

If you know of another collaboration or partnership where Australian creatives have partnered to remake waste, you are welcome to reach out to me via the email listed below, or via my Instagram, _julia.english_.

 

Contact

 

I'd love to connect, please reach out via email julia.english@student.rmit.edu.au, Instagram, or Linkedin.

 

As part of my PhD, I have a supervisory team, if you have concerns about the research you may also contact them:

Dr. Rebecca Van Amber: rebecca.vanamber@rmit.edu.au

Dr. Angela Finn: angela.finn@rmit.edu.au

 

Accessibility

 

For transcripts of each episode, please see the links in each episode's show notes, these link to the Figshare files, which also include PDF and Text files containing podcast transcripts. The following link will take you to the collection page, please click into each episode: https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.c.5842115