Prof Sandy Black
Professor of Fashion, Textile Design & Technology
Sandy is a Research Professor working at the intersections of fashion and textile practice, design for sustainability, technology, business and culture. Sandy has published pioneering texts on sustainable fashion and on knitwear design, history and technology. Recent work brings academic research and the designer fashion sector together through collaborative projects, focusing on the role of creative entrepreneurship, design, new business models and innovative technology application in addressing issues of sustainability in fashion. Sandy is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Fashion Practice: Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry (Routledge Journals), published since 2009.
Current Projects
Future Fashion Landscapes
Publications
2023 Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion, Clothing and Textiles. Co-edited book by Martin Charter, Bernice Pan and Sandy Black, Routledge, 2023. Including Chapter 9:
Sandy Black, Dilys Williams, Agnes Rocamora, Mila Burcikova, Fergus Lyon, Andrea Werner, Ian Vickers, Patrick Elf, Claudia Eckert and Philippa Crommentuijn-Marsh. Fostering Sustainable Practices: The case of micro and small designer fashion enterprises pp 128-140.2023 Net Zero as a Catalyst in fashion micro and small enterprises: Contributing to a wellbeing economy in the UK. Discussion Paper by Dilys Williams, Mila Burcikova and Sandy Black, for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.
2023 Sandy Black. A designer’s perspective on a creative era in knitwear design: British fashion knitwear 1970 -1990. TEXTILE: The Journal of Cloth and Culture Special Issue: Creativity in Knitted Textiles Vol 21(4) 875-902.
2022 Patrick Elf, Andrea Werner and Sandy Black. Advancing the circular economy through dynamic capabilities and extended customer engagement: Insights from small sustainable fashion enterprises in the UK. Business Strategy and the Environment Special Issue Circular Economy 31(6) 2682-2699.
2022 Claudia Eckert, Philippa Crommentuijn-Marsh and Sandy Black. The role of networks in supporting micro- and small-sized sustainable fashion businesses. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 18 (1), 544-559