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The Footwear Research Network is a global interdisciplinary space for academics, educators, and professionals with an interest in footwear to share research, connect, and collaborate.
Our primary purpose is to support the development of footwear studies and facilitate the sharing of knowledge between academia and industry, aiming to address current social, cultural, and environmental challenges. We achieve this by providing a platform that features articles, events, and resources produced by researchers and educators worldwide.
Book review:
Alex Sherlock reviews Ellen Sampson’s book ‘Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear’ for the academic journal Fashion Theory.
‘This is not a shoe’: doctoral thesis
‘This is Not a Shoe: An Exploration of the Co-Constitutive Relationship Between Representations and Embodied Experiences of Shoes’, doctoral thesis assessed by Dr. Agnès Rocamora and Dr. Katherine Davies, awarded April 2017.
'It's kind of where the shoe gets you to I suppose':
Materializing Identity with Footwear.
Open source article in the ‘Materiality’ issue of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, edited by Sophie Woodward and Tom Fisher, published by Intellect.
Young Men, Footwear and the 'Doing' of Masculinities
Conference paper for the Canadian Sociological Association Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria British Columbia, 3rd-8th June 2013.
Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear
As we enter the last 4 months of the If the Shoe Fits project the team are analysing and writing up the data that has been gathered over the last 3 years. At the end of February the first of our publications made it into the peer-reviewed journal Sociological Research Online.
More From the Footwear Research Network
Meet our internationally acclaimed network of contributors, working within the fields of sociology, anthropology, history, art, curation and fashion.
Keep up to date with footwear events and exhibitions worldwide.
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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.
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In the interest of expanding and advancing the field of footwear studies, the Footwear Research Network’s contributors have put their heads together to produce a list of recommended past and present academic texts upon which to build future contributions.
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We are compiling a database of footwear-related resources. Please contact us with your suggestions, including (but not limited to):
Publications (particularly journal articles and books)
Documentaries
Footwear courses
Footwear museums and archives
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The Footwear Research Network’s museums and archives directory lists publicly available archives and museums in alphabetical order by country. The resource builds upon a study of shoe museums conducted by Charlotte Stachel and Professor Lorenzo Cantoni at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland).
Click here to access the Directory.
Read the full article here.
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