https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-0070
Nkumbu is a design innovation lecturer and researcher whose work explores the power of creativity to shape culture and drive positive societal change. Centred on fashion and textiles, her research and practice examine how knowledge and lived experiences, particularly from the peripheries, can inform more equitable futures. Her PhD investigated the role and meaning of heritage for fashion designers, interrogating questions at the intersection of history, memory, dress, and identity. Drawing on extensive experience across interdisciplinary projects in the creative and cultural sectors, Nkumbu advances work focused on sustainability, transformation, and socially responsive design.
My research interest cover a range of interrelated topics:
Heritage and future making
Sustainability and circularity
African Fashion cultures
Responsible design innovation
Decoloniality
Project: Podcast Research project
Date: November 2022
Role: Co-I
Amount: £5991
Funder: Northumbria University
Co-I on a bid for pilot study exploring role of a podcast in supporting and enhancing research culture.
I'm interested in supervising work that explores:
The role of heritage in creating equitable futures,
De-colonial approaches to sustainability and circularity, and
African Fashion cultures
I'm a lecturer teaching Design innovation
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