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Dr Lee Barron

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Design. I teach in the areas of fashion branding and marketing and luxury brand management. I am the Co-ordinator for the MA Luxury Brand Management programmes at 51's London and Amsterdam campus. I am also the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences Co-ordinator for the Amsterdam campus, which involves the management of PG and UG programmes and the development of programmes  for the campus. My research interests include fashion, fashion design, celebrity, and tattoo cultures and practice. I am currently developing research work in the areas of artificial intelligence and smart city technologies and the development of connected cars and autonomous vehicles.

Lee Barron

My researech interests include cultural understandings of celebrity, fashion identity and design approaches, tattoo cultures and media representation, the analysis of film, television and popular music, and craft tradtions. I am currently developing research work in the connected areas of artifical intelligence, smart city technologies and autonomous vehicles.

  • Sarah Walton The role of pattern cutter in the future of manufacturing for fashion apparel; narrative accounts of practice inform the design of new tools and processes through practice research to combine digital functionality with manual approaches. Start Date: 01/06/2020
  • Kyra Jewitt The Lens of Fashion Film: A theoretical and practical investigation into fashion's moving image. Start Date: 05/10/2016

  • Cultural Studies PhD December 31 2004
  • Cultural Studies MA (Hons) June 30 1997
  • Sociology June 20 1995
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2009


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