STAFF PROFILE
Professor Alice Payne
Position:
Dean, School of Fashion & Textiles
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Phone:
+61399250420
Email:
alice.payne@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Brunswick
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Alice Payne is a Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT.
Dr Alice Payne is a Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT. Her research focuses on environmental and social sustainability issues throughout the life cycle of clothing. Recent work has examined labour issues in the cotton value chain, as well as technologies to address the problem of textile waste. Alice is part of the Australian Fashion Council-led consortium designing the National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme. She is author of the book Designing Fashion's Future, co-editor of Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, and is an award-winning designer and educator.
1 PhD Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
- PhD (QUT)
- BDesign (Fashion and Textiles) (UTS)
- BVisArts (USyd)
- Graduate Diploma in Academic Practice (QUT)
- Coneybeer, J.,O’Brien, E.,Hurst, B.,Payne, A. (2024). Assessing the self-regulation strategies and reflexive capacityof fashion companies’anti-slavery tools In: Australian Journal of Human Rights, , 1 - 24
- Retamal, M.,Brydges, T.,Sharpe, S.,Ferrero-Regis, T.,Payne, A., et al, . (2023). State of play in Australian sustainable fashion research: Current and future directions In: International Journal of Fashion Studies, 10, 19 - 49
- O’Brien, E.,Coneybeer, J.,Boersma, M.,Payne, A. (2023). Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors In: International Political Science Review, 44, 609 - 626
- Gopura, S.,Payne, A.,Bandara, D.,Buys, L. (2023). Sri Lankan Fashion Designers: Self-Directed Learning in the Apparel Industry In: Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 41, 259 - 276
- Payne, A. (2023). Seamless Scheme Design Report In: Commonwealth Government Australia
- Stringer, T.,Payne, A.,Mortimer, G. (2022). As cheap as humanly possible: why consumers care less about worker welfare In: Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 26, 717 - 737
- Johnson, H.,Nay, Z.,Maguire, R.,Barner, L.,Payne, A.,Taboada, M. (2022). Conceptualizing the Transnational Regulation of Plastics: Moving Towards a Preventative and Just Agenda for Plastics In: Transnational Environmental Law, 11, 325 - 355
- Payne, A.,Mellick, Z. (2022). Tackling Overproduction? The Limits of Multistakeholder Initiatives in Fashion In: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11, 30 - 46
- Boersma, M.,Josserand, E.,Kaine, S.,Payne, A. (2022). Making sense of downstream labour risk in global value chains: The case of the Australian cotton industry In: Journal of Industrial Relations, 64, 200 - 222
- Manieson, L.,Payne, A.,Ferrero-Regis, T. (2021). Unravelling the media representation of circular economy for fashion education In: International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 14, 338 - 347
- Kmart Australia Ltd Research Services Agreement - Design and conduct a survey of Australian consumers' clothing use and disposal behaviours. Funded by: KMART - Contract from (2024 to 2024)
- Refashioning: Accelerating Circular Product Design at Scale. Funded by: Sustainability Victoria-Circular Economy Innovation Fund from (2023 to 2024)