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Ms Ruth Jindal

Job: Associate Professor in Visual and Material Culture

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Fashion and Textiles

Address: 51Âþ»­, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 207 8682

E: rjindal@dmu.ac.uk

W: /humanities

 

Personal profile

Design historian and cultural consultant with executive experience in arts and cultural instutions. Teaching cultural context in Fashion Communcation and Styling, Fashion Design and Design Crafts.  

Accredited LEGO Serious Play facilitator with a focus on EDI work.

Research group affiliations

  • Institute of Art and Design
  • Creative and Cultural Industries

Publications and outputs

Reeve, J., Jindal, R., Barton, C. and Stokes, N. (2020) Using Creative and Contemplative Pedagogy to Promote Learning Efficacy and Wellbeing within First-Year, Undergraduate Students. Gateway Papers, 2(1): 5, pp. 1–12. DOI:   

Jordan, J. and Jindal, R. (2019) Problematising Philanthropy in the UK Cultural Sector. In: Granger, R. C. (ed.) Value Construction in the Creative Economy. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jindal, R. (2016) Writing Material Culture History, Textile History, 47:1, 133-135

Research interests/expertise

  • Design history and dress history
  • Fashion cultures
  • Visual culture
  • Cultural philanthropy
  • Creative learning and teaching 

Areas of teaching

  • Fashion studies
  • Craft history and cultures
  • Cultural heritage
  • Research methods

Qualifications

  • MA in Arts Criticism
  • PGCertHE
  • PGCert in Arts Management
  • BA (Hons) History of Design

Courses taught

  • Design Crafts BA (Hons)
  • Fashion Communication and Styling BA (Hons)
  • Fashion Design
  • Design Masters

Honours and awards

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Research and Teaching Awards 2023-24  - Most Collegiate Lecturer
  • Staff Recognition Award 2024  - Student Experience

Membership of external committees

  • RSA Fellowship Council, Since 2011, East Midlands Regional Council Member
  • Phoenix Arts (Leicester Arts Company Ltd) 2007-2010, Board Member

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Royal Society Of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce (RSA)
  • Design History Society

Professional licences and certificates

  • Institute of Public Relations

Projects

Discovery Lab  - interdisciplinary accessibility project combining pedagogy, research and enterprise with a focus on the digital accessibility 

Using LEGO Serious Play for wellbeing and resilience  - transferring pedagogic practice to prisoners and prison workers

Forthcoming events


 

Conference attendance

Creative and Contemplative pedagogy to support student learning and wellbeing. 51Âþ»­ Learning and Teaching Conference, Leicester. 2021

Crossing the Pond: Transferring American Philanthropic Models of Arts Funding to the UK at Mediating Cultural Value, CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester. 2016

TEDxLeicester 2015 (organiser)

Open Doors Open Minds Conference, 51Âþ»­, April 2013

The Art of Cultural Philanthropy, 2011, Broadway Nottingham, Conference Organiser

Consultancy work

Capacity-building and Leadership in the creative and cultural industries

Arts Council England Buidling Resilience Programme (Diversification)

University Arts Centres consultation and conference

Diversify  - mentorship to support diversification in arts leadership

Cultural Philanthropy

Current research students

Meera Curam  - Tactile Traces: Reclaiming women makers’ knowledge in Rangoli practice as intuition, metacognitionand ethnomathematics

Miao Wang  - Inheritance and design innovation of leather craft

Rebecca Walker - The Shape of Trauma: the identification and consideration of new inspirational sources in the work of Henry Moore

Talvir Singh - Photography, inter-generational trauma and identity. 

Completed

Rachel Neal, 1st supervisor - From Khaki to Civvies: the First World War, Demobilisation and Narratives of Men’s Dress

Rubab Ashiq, 2nd supervisor - Social Commerce - a Framework for Fashion SMEs in Pakistan

Internally funded research project information

Creative and Contemplative pedagogy to support student learning and wellbeing, Academic Innovation Project, October 2019  - June 2020, Lead with Julia Reeve (Library and Learning Services)

Professional esteem indicators

External Examiner, Critical and Contextual Studies, BA (Hons) Fashion, Northumbria University, 2023-27

Chief External Examiner, Contextualising Practice (BA (Hons) Fashion, BA (Hons) 3D Design, BA (Hons) Interior Design), Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017-2021

External Examiner, Edinburgh Napier University (Contextual Studies MA Fashion, MA Interior Design, MA Graphic Design), 2015-2019