Ruth Sanderson
Senior Lecturer, Branding DNA & Design Theory
Level 4 Year Manager: Working within the senior team to coordinate induction week and community building events throughout the year.
Current Teaching Roles across a variety of Programmes: Fashion Design and Technology - Fashion Business Unit.Fashion Promotion and Fashion Marketing programmes - Fashion Branding and Marketing Communications Unit.
I teach a variety of subjects, which include branding DNA, manual drawing skills, design theory & portfolio building.
Link Tutor: Belfast College 2011 - 2019 - Marangoni London 2019 - Current.
External Roles: I am a External Examiner at the School of Art, Bedfordshire and have experience in being a board advisor at validation events for the open Univiersity.
Academic and professional qualifications
PGCE in FE, HE & Adult Education Bolton University Sept 06 - May 08
Masters in Textiles as Fashion Glasgow School of Art Jan 04 - Dec 04
Bachelor of Design Liverpool Hope University Sept 00 – June 03
BTEC Art Foundation John Moores University Sept 99 - May 00)
Previous Employment
The Manchester College (formally MANCAT) September 2007 – November 2011 Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Fashion & Clothing Technology.
City College January 2008 – September 2009 Fashion Business & Textiles Tutor for the Foundation in Fashion & Clothing Technology.
Hugh Baird College November 2006 – December 2007 Course leader of the Btec Foundation.
Manchester Metropolitan University September 2005 - June 2007 Setting up scheme supported by the Craft Council, two year placement as Artist in Residence within the Embroidery Department.
Academic service (administration and management)
External Examiner to the BA (Hons) Fashion Design course
School of Art, University of Bedfordshire
From January 2021
Open University Validation Panel Member.
BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Product Innovation - York College. March 2021
Open University Validation Panel Member.
FD Visual Media Arts and BA (Hons) Visual Media Arts (Top Up) South West College, Northern Ireland. June 2020.
External Advisor.
BA (Hons) Fashion with Textiles (Top-up) programme. University of Hull. May 2020.
Languages
English
Prizes and awards
Nominted for ‘Teacher of Year’ Student Awards 2019
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
- BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Product Innovation
York College. March 2021.
O.U Validation Panel Member.
- FD Visual Media Arts and BA (Hons) Visual Media Arts (Top Up)
South West College, Northern Ireland. June 2020.
O.U Validation Panel Member.
- BA (Hons) Fashion with Textiles (Top-up) programme
University of Hull. May 2020.
External Advisor.
Undergraduate teaching
As Senior Lecturer in Fashion Branding and Design, I teach across several undergraduate programmes including Fashion Promotion, Fahion Design & Technolofgy and Fashion Branding. Alongside this I also support students through their research project across the Programmes. My expertise includes, Branding DNA, Hand Drawing Skills and Design Theory.
I have experience of leading & teaching across a number of units including:
L3 Foundation - Fashion Design & Technology and Fashion Promotion pathways
L4 & L6 Fashion Promotion
L4 & L6 Fashion Design
L4 Fashion Business
L4 Visual Communications
L5 Creative Fashion Direction
L4 Fashion Marketing - branding & Marketing Communications
External examiner roles
I am a External Examiner at the School of Art, Bedfordshire and have experience in being a board advisor at validation events for the Open Univiersity.
Postgraduate research supervision
I supervise students at Masters level as academic support with their research dissertation in various subject specialisms.
Research
Research Interests
- 5th Inter-Disciplinary Global Conference of Fashion (2013)
Mansfield College, Oxford.
Paper titled: ‘Redefining the Drawn Body Through Investigations of Proportional Techniques’.4th Inter-Disciplinary Global Conference of Beauty (2014)
- 4th Inter-Disciplinary Global Conference of Beauty (2014)
Mansfield College, Oxford.
Paper titled: ‘Aspirational Bodies: Fashioning New Beauty Ideals’.
- IFFTI Conference (2014)
Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan.
Paper titled: ‘ Turning Figure Drawing On Its Head’
- Foundation Year Network (2020) (Online due to lockdown)
Paper titled: ‘Building Confidence in Foundation Students in the Post Covid-19 Era’.
- ITTI conference (2019)
Manchester Fashion Institute, UK
Paper titled: ‘The Bag Charge - Good for the Environment, Detrimental to the Fashion Retail Environment?’
- ITTI conference (2023)
EWHA Womans University Seoul, South Korea
Paper titled: ‘Fashion Landscape: Taking a Good Image is a Business Decision’
Conference Papers
Brownbridge, K.M., Sanderson, R., Gill, S., 2014. 'Aspirational bodies: fashioning new beauty ideals'.
Gill, S., Sanderson, R.E., 2014. 'Turning Figure Drawing On Its Head', IFFTI 2014: The Power of Fashion, Bunka Gakuen University, Japan, 27/1/2014 - 31/1/2014, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference for the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI 2014), pp. 189-194.
Gill, S., Sanderson, R., 2013. 'Redefining the Drawn Body through Investigations of Proportional Techniques', 5th Inter-disciplinary Global Conference on Fashion, Oxford, UK, 9/9/2013 - 12/9/2013.
Office Location
Room C2.31
Cavendish South
Manchester Fashion Institute
Manchester Metropolitan University
Cavendish Street
Manchester M15 6BG