All Writers: List

Dr Victoria Barnes is Reader in Commercial Law at Brunel University London. Her research examines contract, commercial and corporate law from transnational, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She unpicks pivotal historic events, such as landmark cases, and place them in context. Global actors, such as judges, lawyers, and other influential figures, including CEOs, feature heavily in her work often as catalysts for socio-legal change. She has published around 40 journal articles and book chapters on these themes.

Dr Sarah Bendall is a Research Fellow at the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. She researches and writes about the production, trade and consumption of global commodities and fashionable consumer goods between 1500-1800. She is the author of Shaping Femininity.

Dr Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie is a researcher with interests in studying Sociology and African studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Before her appointment at KNUST, she worked for three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana on the project titled "Advancing Creative Industry for Development in Ghana". This project explored how the Ghanaian creative industry can be enhanced to contribute to national development.

Dr. Bobie obtained her PhD from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her PhD explored how contemporary Africa fashion designers combine global influence with ethno-cultural factors to produce aesthetic cosmpolitan fashion in Lagos, Nigeria. She argues that, the conscious intersection of the global with the local by African designers, positions African fashion across national borders, emanating in the creation of Aesthetic Cosmopoltanism fashion.

Adwoa obtained her MPhil degree at the University of Ghana from the year 2014 and Bachelor’s at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) in 2010. At the MPhil, she worked on “The Youth in the Ghanaian Fashion Industry” which discusses the creativity of young Ghanaian entrepreneurs who are changing the face of fashion with no or little formal training in fashion.

She participated in the first CASB/CODESRIA Summer School programme through which she earned a scholarship with the Fondation Oumou Dilly for her PhD. Adwoa worked as research assistant and also as a freelance research consultant from 2014 to 2016. Major among the projects was “Because I Am a Girl” project funded by Plan International, a United Kingdom based NGO and others funded by Marie Stopes and MasterCard Foundation.

Martijn Boersma is Associate Professor (Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery) at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He was previously a (senior) lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School. His areas of interest include human trafficking and modern slavery, business and human rights corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, labour standards and employment relations, multistakeholder initiatives and social sustainability in supply chains. Martijn has extensively published on these topics.

Achilleas Boukis is an Associate Professor in Marketing at the University of Birmingham. Achilleas received his PhD from Strathclyde University (2014). His interests include branding, blockchain and service interactions in physical and technology-mediated contexts. Achilleas has published ‎his research in academic journals such as Journal of Business Research, Tourism Management, Psychology & Marketing and European Journal of Marketing.

Rachel Bowlby's most recent book is Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future. She has written several books about the history and theory of consumer culture, including Juls Looking (on department stores), Carried Away (on )supermarkets. Other books bring together essays in feminist cultural criticism -- Shopping with Freud, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Everyday Stories; also Feminist Destinatiuons, about Virginia Woolf. Additionally, she has written two books about reproductive technologies and changing parental stories: Freudian Mythologies, and A Child of One's Own. At UCL, where she is Professor of Comparative Literature, she teaches courses on consumer culture and literature.

In 2012 Naomi Braithwaite achieved a doctorate from Nottingham Trent University in the discipline of material culture, titled: 'Shoe Design: an Ethnographic Study of Creativity'. The empirical focus of the thesis centred on the creative practice of a number of British, luxury shoe designers. Naomi has lectured extensively at NTU, HKDI and Manchester Metropolitan University in the fields of International Fashion Business, Fashion Marketing, Branding, Promotion and Communication, Consumer Trends, Research Methods and Design and Visual Culture. 

She has also supervised projects at undergraduate, master's and doctoral level. Naomi worked for 13 years in the designer shoe industry as an International Sales and Retail Manager, managing and developing high profile accounts in the USA, Europe, Australia and the Far East.

Dr Erin O’Brien is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow in the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology. Erin’s current research examines political activism and advocacy strategies for social justice, human rights and environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on ethical consumption, political consumerism, and shareholder activism. Erin’s research is concerned with studying the interplay between activists and the state in the construction of knowledge and formation of policy.

Dr Tom Buckley is currently Lecturer in International Business Strategy at the University of Sheffield. Dr Buckley received his PhD. which was subsequently shortlisted for two dissertation prizes, from the University of Reading’s Henley Business School in 2017. Tom’s PhD research focused on the factors affecting the productivity of retail firms in the UK and the US over the long run. Tom’s research continues to adopt an international and comparative approach focusing mainly on the retail industry, but he is also interested in inter-organisational relationships and how private actors provide value to social/cultural initiatives.

Anette Cantagallo, a long-term fashion sustainability practitioner, founded RAUK & CO as an advisory dedicated to guiding SMEs to corporate companies through the complexities of innovation and sustainability. She is also a fashion innovation partner at ASK Scandinavia where she designs the products and also drives collaborations for sustainable innovations.

RAUK & CO partners with consulting firms, fashion brands, and institutions to drive sustainable, long-term growth through innovative strategies. It develops tailored solutions in collaboration with industry experts, technology providers, and good-impact materials to achieve measurable results. Inspired by the resilient “rauks” of Gotland, Sweden, RAUK & CO embodies strength and endurance, helping brands build durable, nature-aligned solutions for a sustainable future.