This workshop aims to highlight the role of sustainable innovation in a fashion retail context through the lens of dynamic capabilities (DCs). The presence of DCs within firms is argued to be instrumental to firms’ abilities to implement sustainable and circular fashion practices, since it is concerned with how businesses respond to rapidly changing environments through sensing and shaping opportunities and threats, seizing opportunities, and reconfiguring their resource bases. Spanish fashion firms possess a profound strategic agility, highly entrepreneurial management teams who create added value through the harnessing of new technologies and retail formats and product innovations to educate and engage consumers on sustainability issues. This workshop will present some of these firms as case studies.
Louise is the Programme Leader of MSc International Fashion Marketing at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her teaching centres around the topics of internationalisation and sustainable fashion branding. Louise’s research interests lie in the area of internationalisation and her PhD focused on dynamic internationalisation capabilities in the Spanish fashion retail context. Louise speaks Spanish and has built a strong network of academic and industry contacts in Spain. As a result of this, the department of FMTE enjoys staff and student exchanges and research collaborations with Villanueva University in Madrid.
In addition to publishing influential books on fashion buying, fashion marketing and Routledge’s Fashion Handbook, Tim Jackson also provides expert commentary and analysis on the luxury and fashion sectors across premium business media. He has been a regular contributor in these areas for WGSN, Stylus.com and also published in the International Herald Tribune and luxury aviation NetJets in-house magazine. Prior to working in Higher Education Tim worked in retail management and buying for a number of brands, including Harrods, Jaeger, Dash and Burton Menswear. Tim is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has worked as a Trustee of the Covent Garden Area Trust in London. Current research interests include luxury, virtual flagships and creative thinking.
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas has a background in luxury fashion and extensive experience teaching in Asia, the US and Europe. An internationally recognized educator and thought leader and advocate for transformative responsible global education, she researches and teaches sustainability and ethics as sources of value for fashion businesses and individuals. Natascha is a keynote speaker at conferences in China, the US, and Europe and a contributor to industry and media pieces on fashion business and consumer behaviour including for the BBC, NPR and SHOWstudio. She is also a knitter, stitcher and make-do-and-mender!
Professor Nawar Kadi has around 30 years in the field of textile research, and he is the research group leader for Advanced Textile Structures at the university of Borås/Sweden. He also has an industrial background with experience in the textile sector.
Is the Programme Leader for MSc Fashion and Lifestyle Marketing at Glasgow Caledonian University, London Campus, teaching branding, retail experiences and fashion marketing. The scope of recent research outputs includes alternative retail spaces, consumer engagement with websites and artificial intelligence as a disruptor of fashion retail.
Is Programme Leader for BA (Hons) International Fashion Branding and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Cara teaches in the field of Fashion Communication covering all aspects of verbal, visual and digital communication. She has worked in the fashion industry for over a decade as both a Retail Buyer for a UK based fashion and home interiors retailer and latterly as the Fashion Editor of a national women’s magazine. This industry experience heavily informs Cara’s current teaching where she focuses on guiding students to work to industry standards to fulfill live client briefs.
Alicia Bonillo is a doctor from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her previous research project at the Faculty of Fine Arts deals with the experimental graphic grid in pattern making and her doctoral thesis continues with an experimental body anthropometric analysis, which projects a scenario for the future of fashion.
Elaine is a Reader in Fashion, Marketing and Sustainability and is also the programme leader for BA(hons) International Marketing. Her co-edited book ‘New Perspectives in Critical Marketing and Consumer Society’, was published in March 2021 and she takes the themes from this and examines disruption and innovation through a fashion lens in her forthcoming co-edited book (publication date of January 2023). Elaine has presented her research at international conferences and has published in international journals and contributed to numerous book chapters. Elaine 
Esteban Galán is a professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is a specialist in audiovisual production and production (more than 15 years of experience working for Canal 9, TVE and the European Union). His line of research focuses on the study of digital tools in audiovisual production and transmedia narratives.
Lindsey is Reader in Marketing at Glasgow Caledonian University and has a PhD in the area of ethical consumption and consumer psychology. She specializes in sustainability principally within the areas of marketing, branding and communication. She is currently the Principle Investigator (PI) for an Erasmus + funded Strategic Partnership investigating sustainability for fashion businesses and engendering employability skills in this area. She has published academic articles, contributed to and edited books and presented conference papers on fashion, luxury and branding. She is also a consumer expert advisor for the national press
Ph.D. Lecturer and researcher in UPV. She is interested in everything related with teaching, new technologies, communication, information, and media studies. I have more than 20 years of experience in the media. 
