Dr Lucy Robertson

Assistant Professor

I am an Assistant Professor with a background in textile design, marketing and entrepreneurship. Based at the School of Textiles and Design in the Scottish Borders, I teach on the Fashion and Textile Design MA and across the undergraduate design disciplines.

My research explores the facilitation of creative workshops for wellbeing, which utilise waste materials to understand how waste can be used as a resource to create and repair products. Through my research I explore how communities can connect through shared learning, making and exhibiting work. 

Areas of interest

• e-textiles, sonic textiles, craft, entrepreneurship, marketing, health and wellbeing

Qualifications

Leith School of Art, Edinburgh: Diploma in foundation studies -Art and Design - 2008 to 2009

School of Textiles and Design, Heriot Watt University, Galashiels: First year completed - Textile Design BA - 2009 to 2010.
 

Duncan of Jordanstone college of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee: First Class Honours Degree in Textile Design - 2010 to 2013
 

Duncan of Jordanstone college of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee: Doctor of Philosophy – PhD Interactive Textiles for Wellbeing within Dementia Friendly Communities - 
2012 to 2021
 

Background

After working as an Enterprise Executive for the University of Edinburgh I returned to DJCAD, University of Dundee to pursue my PhD in Interactive Textiles for Wellbeing.

Alongside my PhD I worked as a HPL delivering talks, tutorials and workshops on Interactive Textiles to students from 1st year to Masters level. In 2020 I moved to Norwich to work as a textile design lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts leading on the 1st year Undergraduate Textile Design course and working as a subject specialist on the Fashion and Textile Design MA.

I moved back to Scotland in 2022 to start as an Assistant Professor in Design at Heriot-Watt University.