Festival of the Mind - Researchers' Night

25 Sept

**28th September 2012**

Location: Jessop West Foyer, University of SheffieldExhibition: 6pm - 8.30pm, Talk: 7.15pm - 7.45pm
On the 28th September we are putting on an exhibition showing some of our research as part of the Festival of the Mind Researchers' Night. Our exhibit will include a talk by Professor Jenny Hockey about the project; videos, activities and a selection of our participants shoes - each telling a story about their wearers. As part of the exhibition we are asking visitors to tell us their own shoe stories on the back of a postcard.
A selection of the postcards will be displayed on this blog - so watch this space!

Alexandra is an academic in the School of Fashion & Textiles at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research is situated in the field of material culture studies and focuses mainly on fashion, footwear, identity, embodiment and the theory of affordances. She was the postgraduate Researcher on the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research project (2010-2013). In 2021 she relaunched the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ blog as the Footwear Research Network

Festival of the Mind - Researchers' Night

An Industry Perspective of the development of the Shoe

Putting shoes on show