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Louisa Rogers

Lecturer

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

Louisa Rogers is a lecturer in fashion communication at Northumbria University with an interest in security studies, fashion and digital cultures. Her current research focus is on representations of surveillance, technology and militarism in fashion contexts.

She runs Trendlistr Vintage, a retail e-commerce brand, and completed the Cambridge University Institute for Sustiainability Leadership Accelerator programme in 2020.

She is also a founding committee member of Colour Collective UK, a not-for-profit organization that promotes colour education through multidisciplinary workshops and lectures that incorporate neuroscience, visual culture, art history and psychology.

Louisa Rogers

Her research interests examine the intersections of fashion and security, including, but not limited to:

  • Surveillance and wearable technology
  • Militarism in fashion and design
  • Fashion trends and moral panic
  • Meme culture, conspiracies and representations of gender
  • TikTok trends
  • War and politics in fashion advertising

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Oral presentation: Styling Security: Representing Global Politics in the Fashion Sphere 2024
  • Invited talk: Fascist Fashion, The Far Right & The Insurrection 2024
  • Oral presentation: This Barbie Is... Taking On the Government! Theorising the Costume-As-Meme 2024
  • Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: British International Studies Association Conference 2023
  • Invited talk: Fashion & Politics: Considerations for Research 2023
  • Oral presentation: Bionic Babes & Mechanical Models: Transhumanism in Fashion Imagery 2023
  • Oral presentation: Drones, Dresses & Decadence: Feminizing UAVs in Fashion 2023
  • Publication Peer-review: Film Fashion and Consumption (Journal) 2023
  • Oral presentation: Sexy Soldiers: Military Chic and the Frenzy of Fashion 2023
  • Membership of network: The British International Studies Association (External organisation) 2023

  • Design Studies MRes December 06 2023
  • Business Studies External Verified Award December 17 2020
  • Business andManagement Studies MA December 17 2016
  • Fashion BA (Hons) August 01 2015


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