Dr Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas

Course Leader BA Fashion Marketing, LCF

Abstract

To foster inclusive learning spaces the BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing course has deliberately put curiosity about others at the core of the curriculum. This session explores key themes raised by curriculum interventions designed to encourage cross-cultural communication through internationalising the curriculum. Projects are designed to encourage exploration of non-homogenous cultures and by acknowledging the cultural contexts of our discipline and introducing theories from economics and psychology students are asked to question (almost) everything they know!

About Dr Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas

Dr Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas is an Inaugural University of the Arts London Teaching Scholar, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and currently Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing at London College of Fashion. In 2016 she has also been awarded the National Teaching Fellowship Award, which celebrates excellent practice and outstanding achievement in learning and teaching in higher education.

Natascha first worked at LCF as a Visiting Tutor, combining this with running a small fashion business, the experience from which informs her teaching and research.

Dr Radclyffe-Thomas completed a Doctorate in Education in 2011; exploring implicit concepts of creativity with reference to Western and Confucian heritage cultures and how those culturally situated understandings manifest themselves in fashion education and practice. She is an active researcher, publishing papers and presenting at conferences internationally.