Dr Fiona Jardine can act as a Primary or Co-Supervisor.

Fiona is a writer and artist with a position in the School of Design teaching research methods to students from all Studio programmes. Graduating with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2003, she has held both Contextual and Studio teaching positions in Textile Design and Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (2006-2009), and in Critical and Contextual Studies in the School of Textiles & Design, Heriot-Watt University (2013 – 2017). She has also worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Intermedia at Edinburgh College of Art (2013). She pursued PhD research in the Social & Critical Theory Cluster at the University of Wolverhampton (2008–2013) with the eminent Marxist art historian, Professor John Roberts.

Fiona works collaboratively with curators, artists, designers and community groups on research-led projects in the field of contemporary art and design. She is specifically interested in the creative (re)construction of fashion and textile narratives, and the materialisation of place within those.

She supervises both practice-led and thesis-based PhDs which relate to her interdisciplinary experience, welcoming proposals which align with her interests: modern, postwar and contemporary design, craft, fashion and textile histories and narratives, particularly those which unfold in - or adjacent to - the field of contemporary art and visual culture; contemporary design, craft, fashion and textile narratives which are constructed through fiction, autoethnography, life writing or use novel documentary and storytelling methods; crossover practices in design, craft, fashion, textile and contemporary art; contemporary critique in craft and design; place-based research.

Current students:
Esther Draycott
Mhari McMullan
Liliana Sanguino Ramirez
Niketa Shetty