Kristen Pickering

Assistant Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I joined the School of Design at Northumbria University in 2004 after 10 years industrial experience as a designer in the Fashion industry working internationally. I have teaching experience on level 3, Design Foundation and level 4-6 on BA Fashion with a focus on Printed Surface Textiles. I drive both my subject at a module level and until recently lead and managed the programme over a 5 year period during which the programme was restructured and revalidated allowing us to adapt to future developments in fashion.

I am Collaborative Partnership Manager for both BA Fashion and BA Fashion Design and Marketing programmes with Academy of Design, Colombo, Sri Lanka, a fascinating link that shows that Design is a skill that successfully translates across cultures.

I am intrigued by different approaches to learning students demonstrate and the role drawing plays in communicating this. Emerging from a prolonged period of online delivery, I firmly believe studio culture and in integrated learning environment is essential to a designer’s development in preparation for a life of collaboration.

Key Publications

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North of England Women’s Diet and ActivitY - After Breast Cancer (NEWDAY-ABC) intervention in women diagnosed with early oestrogen-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer: a randomised controlled feasibility study, Wilson, C., Pickering, K., Wane, S., Cohen, J., Huang, C., Northgraves, M., Crank, H., Anderson, A., Cain, H., Copeland, R., Gray, J., Hargreaves, J., McNally, R., Saxton, J. 7 Aug 2025, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies