Student Researchers- Part of the CCD Community!
June 28th, 2021Where has the time gone?
It’s now six weeks since the Culture, Costume and Dress Conference on May 5th-7th. It’s been busy with assessments and marking work here at BCU so I felt that it was about time to add some of the student contributions from CCD 2021 to the blog.
A selection of level 5 and level 6 students were tasked with ‘reporting’ on a selection of the paper presentations given in the conference. The convening panel have, since the inauguration of the conference in 2017 been keen to ensure that our student undergraduate and post- graduate community should also be part of the, and contribute to the CCD research community.
Each year students have partaken in the conference in a variety of ways, including on- site support for registration and navigation of the conferences, in 2017 and 2019, and designing and contributing to the Cabinets of Costume exhibition in 2017. This year with the move to online delivery of the conference onto Zoom the ‘Student Round Table’ offered a valuable contribution to the conference- I leave this to Sian to explore more in her student’s blog post.
For the next six to eight weeks I will be handing over the blogosphere to our student researchers. This blog post is an introduction to our student reports to be featured as blog posts, I hope that you will read and support our early researchers in their reporting? I would like to welcome and thank them all for their contributions which include:
Jessica Boyd
Emma Davis
Lin Dou
Robyn Westcott
Abbie Wells
Week 1– The symbologies of the typical costumes of the ‘Rainha Das Rosas’ competition in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Glauber Soares Junior, Isadora F Oliveira, Fabiano E A Batista and Ítalo J M Dantas, 5th May 2021) Blog post written by Robyn Westcott. Watch it here: CCD2021 | » Symbolic Dress
Week 2: Covid -19 and online living: A recipe for a slow fashion lifestyle? (Hughes, 5th May 2021) Blog post by Abbie Wells. Watch it here: CCD2021 | » Lifestyle and identity
Week 3- Power and Wellbeing Through garment choice: Experimental garment design concepts for women who wear men’s clothing. (Jackson, 6th May 2021) Blog post by Abbie Wells. Watch it here: CCD2021 | » Cross-dressing and gender politics
Week 4- New Materiality and Phygital Dress: The performance of self through AR beauty filters. (Coffey, 7th May 2021) Watch it here: CCD2021 | » Identity and technology
More to follow…
If you would like to watch the paper conferences or key notes they are all now on the CCD Website CCD2021 | » Recordings
Louise Chapman
Senior Lecturer in BA Hons Costume Design and Practice
Ph.D. Candidate London College of Fashion
