I am a Doctoral Researcher at Nottingham Trent University with the Fashion and Textile Research Centre. I am exploring ways Arts-Based Research can facilitate the exchange of knowledge and values, especially creating conditions for different ways of knowing about fashion-nature partnerships to come into play. I provide research consultancy on project around Fashion and Sustainability. Previously, I worked as a full-time lecturer at the Indian Institute of Art and Design, where my research focussed on Education for Sustainable Development at HEI. My MA thesis titled ‘ Cultural and Creative Identities of Artisans: Impact of Design Education’ encouraged me to delve deeper into how definitions of creativity in the canons of design scholarship do not encapsulate non-eurocentric views, disregarding communal creativity. In 2019, I obtained my MA in Fashion Futures from the University of the Arts London, critiquing the nature and purpose of fashion and design through a systems thinking approach; and my BA in Fashion Design in 2018 from the National Institute of Fashion Technology.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Consultant and Educator | October 2021 – Present
Senior Design Fellow, Design Innovation Centre, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi | June 2022 – September 2022
Field Researcher and Project Manager, Community Couture, Remote | November 2021 – June 2022
Lecturer in Fashion Business Management, Indian Institute of Art and Design, New Delhi | July 2020 – January 2022
Sustainability Development Associate, Staiy, Remote | August 2020 – November 2020
Knowledge Exchange and Education Administrator, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London | January 2020 – March 2020
Impact Evaluation Assistant, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London | December 2019 – February 2020
EDUCATION
PhD Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University | October 2023 – Present
MA Fashion Futures, London College of Fashion, UAL | September 2018 – December 2019
BA Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata | July 2014 – May 2018
From Linear to Circular 2021, Ellen MacArthur Foundation | November 2021
AWARDS
Crafting Futures Digital Collaboration Grant, British Council, 2021
Shortlisted for Best Research Award at Global Fashion Conference, 2020
UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship, 2018
CONTACT
meghachauhan.m[at]gmail[dot]com