Staff Profile

With almost 20 years teaching experience Emmeline has become a proficient educator with a HEA underpinned by teaching and learning methodologies developed through her research. She has taught in the UK, India, and Sri Lanka and Hong Kong in the areas of Sustainability, Fashion, and Design. Emmeline externals across Fashion and Fashion Marketing programmes and has fed into the development of programmes across Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Promotion, nationally and internationally.

Emmeline is the Course Leader for Fashion, Textiles and Footwear and accessories, leading on a number of modules across the levels. She also feeds into Fashion Marketing and Promotion degree.

Emmeline supports PhD Candidates in design and sustainability and is open to applications in this area.

Key Expertise

Textile Design and Fashion Manufacture, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Remanufacture, Upcycling.

For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Emmeline Child’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.

• Child, E (2014) An auto ethnographic review of 48 pieces from the Emmeline 4 Re range. Transition: Rethinking Textiles and Surfaces Conference, Huddersfield University. November 26th-27th 2014
• Child, E. (2016) Opportunities and barriers leading to the implementation of social innovation; An auto ethnographic case study of Emmeline 4 Re. International social innovation research conference (ISIRC), Glasgow, 5-7th September 2016
• Child, E. (2016) An auto ethnographic review of 48 pieces from the Emmeline 4 Re collections; Defining barriers and opportunities leading to successful upcycling. The 90th Textile Institute World Conference. Poznan, Poland 25th-28th April 2016
• Child, E. (2016) Developing models for successful upscaled upcycling of fashion. Circular Transitions Conference, London November 2016
• Child, E (2019) Developing samples of small scale upcycling from pre-consumer textile fallout. In: W. Leal, D. Tyler, M. Miraftab, ed. Innovation in Textile Recycling: towards a more sustainable handling, re-use and disposal of textile materials. Springer
• Child, E (2020) Fallout Fashion. In: Research Circles: A collection of essays and interviews by researchers at Centre for Circular Design. Ed. Rebecca Earley. UAL, London.
• Child, E (2023) PhD Thesis Fallout Fashion: Design Guidelines for whole product manufacturing. UAL, London.
• Child, E (2023) Developing samples of small-scale upcycling from pre-consumer textile fallout. PLATE, Helsinki.