Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

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Studies In Creative Arts And Writing
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice

PhD (Griffith University)

Background I worked in Milan across many fields of the creative industries, from advertising to production manager at Vogue Italy in Milan and as a freelance writer. I hold  a PhD from Griffith University on the historical imagination in Italian cinema. My research sits at the intersection of place, culture, and industry and I have published in several journals on a range of topics that include cultural representations, fashion, place and national fashion identity, and wool. I have been engaged in community work from 1989, with communities of women workers in the textile and clothing industry in India, and later with Australian Aboriginal communities in Queensland.  My current research  include sustainability,  circularity and place and space, second-hand clothing practices and justice. My  methodological approach is underpinned by interdisciplinarity and the culture-industry nexus. I am  co-leader of TextileR: The future of fashion group at the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, and also co-leader of the Circularity programme at the QUT Resilience Centre. I have engaged in consultancy with industry and government, producing strategy and analysis for a transition to circular economy in textiles.

I am a recipient and a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 2025 Valuing the Handmade: Investigating a Place-Based and Regenerative Approach to Circular Fashion and Textile Economies.

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Experience

My  scholarly knowledge and professional expertise is translated in my teaching across many aspects of fashion communication and design. I am an Australian Research Council Assessor, a regular peer reviewer for many refereed journals, and an editorial member of two Intellect publications, Clothing Cultures and Studies in Costume and Performance, and of ZoneModa Journal. I have engaged with Aboriginal communities in the Cape York Peninsula. I also enjoy presenting at schools about fashion and textiles and sustainable everyday practices.

I have engaged with the Brisbane City Council to report on sustainable procurement, and Salvos to report on socio-economic benefits of circularity in textiles in Queensland. I was a member of  the advisory board of the National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme, which led to the national policy in clothing and textile Seamless.

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Research Projects

Title
Valuing the Handmade for Circular Fashion and Textile Economies
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP250102621
Start year
2025
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Completed Supervisions (Doctorate)