Design, Nottingham Trent University
Thesis title:
This PhD assesses the changing forms of feminine modernity through the visual representation of the cycling woman (1880-1939) in British visual and material culture. Consulting local, Midlands-based and national archives this study critiques and maps the changing attitudes towards women’s cycling and fluctuating discourse on issues of feminine strength, speed, beauty and mobility.
'The History of Women Cyclists: An Uphill Climb to Equality' (2025), The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-women-cyclists-an-uphill-climb-to-equality-244984
'Women in the Kitchen: The Performativity of Modern Living' (2021), Space International Journal of Conference Proceedings, Vol 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.51596/sijocp.v1i1.14
(Seminar) 'Visions of Feminine Modernity: Cycling, Self-Propulsion and Power (1880-1939).' presented at the Institute of Historical Research, London June 30th 2025.
'Cycling Women and Visions of Modernity and Femininity in British Visual Culture (1880-1939).' presented at NTU's Annual School of Art and Design 'Research and Innovation' conference. Broadway Cinema, Nottingham June 2025
'Theorising visions of Female Cyclists (1880-1939): Women, Speed and Modernity.', presented at the British Society of Sports History Annual Conference. Chichester University Aug 2024.
'Restructuring Visions of Female Cyclists (1880-1939): The (Im)mobile Woman', presented at University of Nottingham's 'Art of History' conference June 2024.
NTU's Postgraduate Conference, School of Art & Design. Poster Presentation **2nd Place Prize Winner, June 2024
'Cycling Women Visuals: Fetish and Feminism', presented at NTU's Material and Visual Delights symposium, April 2024
'Fashioning Entry: Women in the Male Sphere: 1890-1915', presented at NTU's Material and Visual Delights symposium, April 2022.
'Women in the Kitchen: The Performativity of Modern Living', presented virtually at the International SPACE conference 'Gender, Space and Architecture', June 2021.
Media Appearances:
4th Feb 2025, ABC Australia 'Late Night Live with David Marr', talking about the 'moral panic' caused by Victorian cycling women. Available here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live/104527392
24th Jan 2025, BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour', talking about 'Bicycle Face' and the moral panic caused by Victorian Cycling Women in the context of the UK's gender gap in cycling. Available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002751h
Other:
Nov 2023: NTU's 2023 Sustainability Summit- 'Sustainable Buying Decisions: Fashion Business Application'.
In this self-designed, self-produced, interactive workshop I guided attendants through the fashion buying-cycle, the overarching sustainability issues within the fashion industry (based off my 5+ years' experience) and how, as a buyer, your decision making influences the end product. In the activity, I produced 3 worksheets detailing a garment spec with a target cost-price and several options to get to that target cost price (some sustainable, some not). The purpose of the workshop was to get attendents thinking about how, in a commercial setting, sustainable decision making is influenced by the pressures of growth-based economics, profit and commerciality.
Fashion theory, history of.
Design Theory and Visual Culture
Women's/Feminist History (19th/20th century)
Modernity and Gender (19/20th century)
Sportswear and Women's Sports histories
British Society of Sports History (BSSH)
Women's History Network
NTU: Fashion and Textile Research Centre, Women in Sport RG
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