Kat Thiel

Senior Research Associate

Kat Thiel

Senior Research Associate

Email: k.thiel@mmu.ac.uk

Research

Book Chapters

Thiel, K., Postlethwaite, S., 2024. 'Navigating Skills Shortages: Bridging Human Factors and Fashion Practice Research for Collaborative Innovation in UK Fashion Manufacturing'. In Production Management, Manufacturing, and Process Control, Routledge.

Thiel, K., ten Bhoemer, M., Postlethwaite, S., Pollmann, A., Hoette, R., 2017. 'Breaking the script'. In Everything and everybody as material : beyond fashion design methods, The School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Boras..

Thiel, K., 2017. 'I:OBJECT—Or the Case for Fashion Without Products'. In Digital Bodies: Creativity and Technology in the Arts and Humanities, Palgrave MacMillan.

Reports

Thiel, K., 2024. 'Feasibility Scenarios for UK Fashion Micro factories'.

Postlethwaite, S., Thiel, K., Atkinson, D., 2024. 'Reshoring UK Garment Manufacturing with Automation: Recommendations for Government', KTN Made Smarter, London.

Thiel, K., Eimontaite, I., 2024. 'Method Stacking', Aspect and The University of Manchester, Manchester.

Postlethwaite, S., Thiel, K., Ellams, D., 2022. 'Design Anthropology skills development. Designing interdisciplinary research for provocation, pedagogy and policymaking.', Future Fashion Factory CICP.

Postlethwaite, S., Thiel, K., Atkinson, D., 2022. 'Reshoring UK Garemnt Manufacturing with Automation. Advice for Government', KTN Made Smarter.

Conference Papers

Thiel, K., Postlethwaite, S., 2023. 'Human-centric research of skills and decision-making capacity in fashion garment manufacturing to support robotic design tool development', 20/7/2023 - 24/7/2023, in Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing, pp. 20-30.

Thiel, K., ten Bhoemer, M., Hoette, R., Alexa, P., 2021. 'The educator - gatekeeper or enabler? Conference workshop', The Digital Multilogue on Fashion and Education : A Conference on Learning and Teaching Fashion in Theory and Practice, Online, 1/10/2021.

ten Bhömer, M., Hoette, R., Pollmann, A., 2020. 'The educator - gatekeeper or enabler?', The Digital Multilogue on Fashion and Education : A Conference on Learning and Teaching Fashion in Theory and Practice, Online, 25/9/2020.

Thiel, K., Postlethwaite, S., Lean, M., 2020. 'Discourse: Debating the Future of Fashion as Design', Fashion Colloquia, Jaipur/ India.

Presentations

Thiel, K., 2024. 'The Robotics Living Lab - Visions for small-scale robotic manufacturing', Rimini, Italy.

Thiel, K., 2023. 'Robotics Living Lab', Henry Royce Centre, Manchester.

Other Outputs

Reiss, D., 2024. 'MINIMUM WASTE NEEDED - Advisory Board Member'.

Thiel, K., 2023. 'UK-RAS RobotTalk Episode 44 – Kat Thiel. Collaborative robots, micro-factories, and fashion manufacturing'.

Office Location

Cavendish South
Manchester Fashion Institute
Manchester Metropolitan University
Cavendish Street
Manchester M15 6BG