Professor Alice Payne
Dean, School of Fashion & Textiles
Details
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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alice.payne@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-1570-6378
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
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 was 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.
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 was 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.
Supervisor projects
- Product stewardship beyond borders: extending global downstream responsibility for Australian used clothing.
- 25 Sep 2024
- Fashion localism: Centring values for regenerating nature and community wellbeing in local fashion ecologies
- 20 Nov 2023
- Towards a New Materialist Framework for Biodiversity in Textile Supply Chains: Improving the management of textile supply chains to support biodiversity outcomes, via mixed- methods research of Australian textile production sites.
- 15 Nov 2023
- Idle to Active Dresses: Design Explorations Through Making and Wearing
- 2 Jun 2023
- Investigations into digital fashion: exploring applications and relationships for fashion
- 4 May 2023
- Underexposed: The digital transformation of fashion supply chain transparency
- 1 Feb 2023
- Textile Urban Metabolism: Investigating the Flows of Unwanted Textiles Throughout the Urban Environment
- 10 Dec 2020
Research interests
Sustainability, Fashion, Circular Economy, Design Practice and Management, Fashion and Textile Design
