Veganism and footwear - new insights into a growing market.
As veganism continues to grow, Dr. Rachel Lamarche-Beauchesne shares research findings exploring consumer challenges and strategic opportunities.
The Art and Science of Repair: Towards a Responsible and Meaningful Relationship with Footwear
Sustainability in Fashion Masters Graduate Kirraly Antcliff discusses the importance of footwear repair and the responsibility of brands to care for their products beyond the point of sale.
This is Not a Shoe
How can old shoes be used to effect a shift from a traditional ‘design-led’ to a circular ‘material-driven’ approach to design? Research conducted at RMIT University used shoes to explore the transferable knowledge and capabilities that can be developed through material reuse and upcycling in design education.
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.
A Casual Obsession: Inside the British Sock Fetish Council
Professor Andrew Groves provides an overview of his ethnographic research on football casuals and their use of socks to construct inclusive and hybrid masculinities.
Shoe and Tell
Dr. Naomi Braithwaite talks to Footwear Today about ‘Shoe and Tell’, a three-year study by Nottingham Trent University exploring the relationship between Generation Z and their choices in footwear.
Dressed Bodies Symposium
The ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project team hosted a one-day symposium at Sheffield University on 17th July 2013. The stellar line-up of speakers included Lucia Ruggerone, Naomi Braithwaite, Anna Catalini, Karen Harvey, Julia Twigg and Chrissy Buse, Karin Lovgren, Mary Madden, Emily Taylor, Emily Nicholls, Jacki Willson, Alison Carr and Pam Walker.
Dressed Bodies: A Symposium - registration now open
To mark the end of the three-year research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition, funded by the ESRC, we are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Centre for Gender Research.
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.
Call for Papers: 'Dressed Bodies: A Symposium'
To mark the end of the three-year research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition, funded by the ESRC, we are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Sheffield. We invite submissions investigating the dressed body in social and cultural contexts with a concern to deepen understandings of identity as an embodied process.
If the Shoe Fits: Project film
This short film, produced by Sheffield Vision, introduces our research project at the University of Sheffield which is finding out how shoes contribute to people's identities and the ways in which footwear enables them to move between different parts of their lives.
Festival of the Mind - Researchers' Night
A selection of shoe stories collected at the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ exhibition, part of the Festival of the Mind, at the University of Sheffield.