Dormant Shoes: Why do we keep shoes we no longer wear?
Professor Sophie Woodward discusses the shoes we keep but no longer wear as part of her ‘dormant things’ research at the University of Manchester.
The Rise of the Slipper
Wearing slippers while working from home? The Covid pandemic has caused a rise in slipper sales and an increased awareness of these very private and intimate forms of footwear. Following an interview for the Guardian Australia, Alex Sherlock asks what slippers might tell us about ourselves.
Graduation shoes
Professor Jenny Hockey offers an anthropological perspective on graduation shoes and rites of passage.
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If the shoe fits:
FootweaR, Identity & Transition
The Footwear Research Network is an outcome of the ESRC-funded research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear Identity and Transition at the University of Sheffield (2010-2013). Learn more about the project and research outputs here.
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The Footwear Research Network is an outcome of the ESRC-funded research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear Identity and Transition at the University of Sheffield (2010-2013).
Learn more here
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Watch the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ documentary to learn more about the research project and the relationship between wearers and their shoes. Filmed and produced by Sheffield Vision.
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Learn more about the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research team and board of advisors.
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Following the success of the original ITSF project, further funding was secured in 2015 for a follow-on project, ‘If the Shoe Fits: Enabling Patient-Centred Podiatry’.
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A number of papers and publications were produced directly from the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research and in association with the project. Access the full list here.