Dr Cat Glover

Assistant Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Dr Catherine Glover –
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries in the Faculty of Society and Culture at Northumbria University and Northumbria University Distinguished Teaching Fellow 2025. I specialise in Masters and PGR delivery, particularly teaching responsible business practice, eco-leadership, research skills, sustainability, strategic communications, relational practices, storytelling, systems thinking, and neuroeducation.

I bring my professional training as a somatic coach and forest bathing guide into my professional role through embodied leadership practices such as deep listening, 'flipped' pedagogies, facilitation of Writing Retreats, sensory guided outdoor walks, and use of 'in flow' storied methodologies. I ground my teaching in values and purpose-led action, creative envisioning, and prioritisation of planet, people, profit. I structure my energies towards actions that align with UNSDGs goals, PRME principles and Universal Design for Learning framework, and am committed to holistic creative wellbeing solutions, co-participation, accessibility, care and belonging, as integral pillars that scaffold meaningful social change.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Catherine's research interests are eco-, creative and embodied leadership, responsible business, whole systems thinking, neuroeducation, pedagogy, mindset and behaviour change, utilising storytelling, voice and lived experience as methods. She is published

Her research has appeared in the Fashion Heritage: Narrative and Knowledge Creation (Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Cantista and Delille, 2023), Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building (Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Cantista and Sábada, 2019).Critical Journal of Fashion and Beauty (11.1), International Journal of Fashion (4.2), Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (22.1). She has presented her research to peer, academic and industry audiences at global conferences (e.g. Global Fashion Conference 2016, 2018, 2023, Nostalgia: 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary conference), delivered keynote lectures (e.g. to International Ally Group), organised participatory writing retreats on and off campus with civic audiences (e.g. national Festival of Social Sciences 2024 event on a farm). Catherine is passionate about purpose-led experiences that are centred around a shared culture of care, belonging, wellbeing, access, participation and inclusivity.

Key Publications

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Morality Retail: The Case of Dutch Store, Crafted Stories, and Its Common Good Strategy, Glover, C. 2 Apr 2024, Fashion for the Common Good, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Tabling a new Multi-Modal NI Narrative Analysis Framework for use in critical fashion studies, Glover, C. 12 Jun 2024, Image-Thinking: Art-making as Cultural Analysis
The Fashion + Sustainability Paradox: Is Education a Way Forward?, Glover, C. 1 May 2024, Design Education in the Anthropocene, New York, Taylor & Francis
Fashion storytelling through Dress and Lego Mini-Figures: Mary, Queen of Scots, Glover, C. 2 Jan 2023, Fashion Heritage, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
A Story of Fashion Revolution: The initiative that challenges the cost of fashion, Glover, C. 7 Sep 2019, 'Cost of Design 2019', Design History Society

Professional Activity

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Membership of board: Journal of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty (External organisation) 2022
Publication Peer-review: Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (Journal) 2019
Membership of board: Design History Society (External organisation) 2022

PGR Supervision

Helen Shaddock Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Helen Shaddock 'Welcome to My Messy World': A practice-based, messy auto-ethnographic artistic exploration into multimedia storytelling as an integral method towards 'creative becoming' Start Date: 01/10/2025

Further Information

Prior to academia, Catherine worked for fifteen years in industry as a luxury fashion PR, design journalist, copyeditor, and editorial coordinator in arts publishing. She continues to write and publish autobiographical narratives and poetry.