Dr Fiona Anderson holds an MA, History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She formerly taught at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, and was a contracted Independent Assessor at the University of Oxford. Fiona previously worked at the Design Museum and V&A, London, and as Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at National Museums Scotland. She has developed an international research profile by regularly publishing peer-reviewed essays. Her book Tweed, published by Bloomsbury Academic, was the major output from an AHRC Fellowship project on which Fiona was the Principal Investigator. Fiona peer reviews for Textile History and the Journal of Design History and was a Design History Society Trustee, 2021–2024. She is a Steering Committee Member of the ‘Tailoring for Women’ research project (part of the ACORSO trans-European Research Group).
Fashion and textile studies; fashion, textiles and gender; textiles and masculinities; curating and museology; material culture, aesthetic and design theory; modernism, interior space and design; adornment, jewellery and the body.
Principal Investigator, AHRC Research Fellowship Project, Tweed: History, Culture and Design, £52k, 2013.
Principal Researcher, Research Travel and Conference Grant, Design History Society, £1k, 2018.
Fashion and textile studies; fashion, textiles and gender; textiles and masculinities; curating and museology; modernism, interior space and design; adornment, jewellery and the body; material culture and design theory.
Undergraduate teaching of Design History and Theory to BA (Hons) students at all year levels, including Year 4 supervision. Course Organiser of the cross-disciplinary, School of Design, Year 1 course, Designed Objects: Ideas, Contexts, Histories.
Postgraduate teaching of the cross-disciplinary, elective course, Aesthetics in Creative Practice.
