Footwear Research Network founding editor, Dr. Alexandra Sherlock, spoke recently with World Footwear about the benefits of Academe-Industry collaboration to address current social, cultural and environmental challenges.
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
