Dr Lee Barron

Associate Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Design. I teach in the areas of fashion branding and marketing and luxury brand management. I am the Co-ordinator for the MA Luxury Brand Management programmes at Northumbria University's London and Amsterdam campus. I am also the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences Co-ordinator for the Amsterdam campus, which involves the management of PG and UG programmes and the development of programmes for the campus. My research interests include fashion, fashion design, celebrity, and tattoo cultures and practice. I am currently developing research work in the areas of artificial intelligence and smart city technologies and the development of connected cars and autonomous vehicles.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My researech interests include cultural understandings of celebrity, fashion identity and design approaches, tattoo cultures and media representation, the analysis of film, television and popular music, and craft tradtions. I am currently developing research work in the connected areas of artifical intelligence, smart city technologies and autonomous vehicles.

Key Publications

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Aural Portents: The Anthropocene and Popular Music, Barron, L. 17 Jan 2025, The Anthropocene and Popular Culture, Leeds, Emerald
The Age of Humanity: Trajectories of the Anthropocene, Barron, L. 17 Jan 2025, The Anthropocene and Popular Culture, Leeds, Emerald
The Anthropocene and popular culture, Barron, L. 17 Jan 2025
Anti-sacred fashion: The use of profane performative costumes in the black metal music and performances of Nergal and Behemoth, Barron, L. 3 May 2024, In: Fashion, Style and Popular Culture
Challenges in Conducting Co-Creation Workshops to Study Net Zero Understandings, Initiatives and Sustainable Design Futures with Grassroots Communities - A Case Study, Barron, L., Zhu, Z., Qin, S. 2024, In: Procedia CIRP
“I Wanna Go Out Dancing”: Disco and the Performative Persona of Kylie Minogue, Barron, L. 2024, Kylie Minogue, London, Bloomsbury
The Spirits of Radio: Remediated Spiritualism, the Ghost Box and Paranormal Reality TV, Barron, L. 2024, In: Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture
AI and Popular Culture, Barron, L. 3 Apr 2023
Smart cities, connected cars and autonomous vehicles: Design fiction and visions of smarter future urban mobility, Barron, L. 27 Apr 2023, In: Technoetic Arts
Celebrity Habitus, Confessional Style: Self-Reflective Bodily Instruction within Khloé Kardashian’s Strong Looks Better Naked, Barron, L. 1 May 2021, In: Fashion, Style and Popular Culture

Current and Recent Projects

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Developing a Grassroots Sustainable Futures Platform: Collective Participation in a Community-Based Cultural Organisation, Barron, L. (Principal Investigator), British Academy, 24/01/22 - 24/01/23, £15,290.00

PGR Supervision

Sarah Walton The role of pattern cutter in the future of manufacturing for fashion apparel; narrative accounts of practice inform the design of new tools and processes through practice research to combine digital functionality with manual approaches. Start Date: 01/06/2020 End Date: 17/10/2025
Kyra Jewitt The Lens of Fashion Film: A theoretical and practical investigation into fashion's moving image. Start Date: 05/10/2016
Sarah Walton The role of pattern cutter in the future of manufacturing for fashion apparel; narrative accounts of practice inform the design of new tools and processes through practice research to combine digital functionality with manual approaches. Start Date: 01/06/2020
Kyra Jewitt The Lens of Fashion Film: A theoretical and practical investigation into fashion's moving image. Start Date: 05/10/2016 End Date: 17/10/2025