Professor Jane Harris

Biography

Director of the University of the Arts London, Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (UAL, FTTI) with over £25m investment to date, Professor Harris is Director / PI of the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology (BFTT, £6m) one of nine Creative R&D Partnerships funded by the AHRC Creative Industries Clusters Programme (£80m, CICP, 2018-24) – and is Co-I on two Circular Fashion Network+ initiatives led by the Universities of Leeds, and Exeter (2023-25).

As PI, Professor Harris is leading development of an XR Research Lab specialising in the rendition of textiles and dress supported by the AHRC Creative Research Capability fund (CResCa, £3.5m) as part of the UKRI World Class Laboratories initiative, is Co-I on an EPSRC Digital Economy Network+ award (2022-27) establishing a UK wide Virtual Production Network led by the University of York, and led an AHRC award 'DREEm: Digital, Regeneration and Experience Economy modelling' (£657,912), with over 100 UK wide visitor economy and creative industry partners and stakeholders.

Director of Research and Innovation (East Bank), Professor Harris operates at the intersection of Design+ STEM, cultural anthropology and business practices, with over twenty five years of experience, and is leading development of strategic partnerships aligning to the new UAL campus for London College of Fashion, as part of the emergent East Bank on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – including co-founding the Global Disability Innovation Hub. She is a member of the Peer Review College for AHRC, advisor to EPSRC, NERC, ESRC, EU ICT – and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).