Meet the team
Anna Fitzpatrick
Project Coordinator
Anna works alongside Prof. Helen Storey coordinating the research and curriculum development that working in Za’atari has enabled. The urgency of the Climate Emergency plays in an important role in this work.
Professor Dilys Williams
Director, Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability
Dilys' research, design and teaching practice explores participatory and transformation design to realise fashion as sustainability in action.
Professor Helen Storey, MBE, RDI, FRSA
Professor of Fashion and Science
Through both Knowledge Exchange and Research, Helen works across design, science and technology in service to humanity.
Lou Budd
Education for Sustainability Project Coordinator
Lou coordinates the effective development and delivery of CSF’s Education for Sustainability projects and strategy.
Dr. Mila Burcikova
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mila’s research interests encompass the human dimension of fashion. She interrogates the connections between fashion and everyday life within the context of climate emergency.
Nicole Zisman
Project Administrator – Decolonising Fashion and Textiles
Nicole is a fashion designer, visual artist and equalities researcher addressing the body in physical and digital culture. She is especially interested in the visuality of assimilation, and seeks to challenge the notion of a fixed truth that ‘seeing is knowing.’
Zoe Norton
Centre Coordinator and Project Manager
Zoe cares for and supports the CSF team to ensure the Centre’s smooth running and team well-being, supporting a culture of care.
Camilla Palestra
Curatorial Associate, FHEA
As Curatorial Associate, Camilla works on exhibitions, artists residencies, art and design commissions, and the ongoing AER Art for the Environment International Residency Programme.
Katelyn Toth-Fejel
CSF Design School Associate and Acting Course Leader, MA Fashion Futures
Katelyn is a designer, artist, lecturer and PhD researcher whose work centres on localism and the everyday social aspects of fashion and sustainability.
Professor Lucy Orta
Chair of Art and the Environment
A visual arts practitioner addressing key social and ecological challenges through making and collaborative working. Founder of the UAL Art for the Environment Residency Programme.
Monica Buchan-Ng
Acting Head of Knowledge Exchange (Sustainability)
CSF’s Acting Head of Knowledge Exchange leads our work with industry partners, CSF team members and the wider college to bring our co-created sustainability projects to life.
Nina Stevenson
Head of Education
Nina is an educator who enjoys collaborating with others to develop complex sustainability ideas into creative and measurable learning in online and offline spaces.
Constance Jeffreys
Knowledge Exchange Associate (Sustainability)
Constance Jeffreys takes an intersectional and anthropological approach to co-create meaningful projects within sustainability.
Dr. Francesco Mazzarella
Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Design for Social Change
Francesco’s research spans the fields of fashion activism, craftsmanship, social innovation and sustainability. He also teaches in a number of courses across LCF.
Dr. Laetitia Forst
Postdoctoral Research Fellow BFTT Partnership
Laetitia is a multi-technique textile designer whose practice explores the tension between technical challenges and creativity in sustainable design for textiles.
Naomi Bulliard
Head of Strategy
Naomi oversees the development, delivery and evaluation of our core activities and strategic collaborations across Research, Education and Knowledge Exchange.
Professor Sandy Black
Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology
Sandy is a Research Professor working at the intersections of fashion and textile practice, design for sustainability, technology, business and culture.