Kirsty Nevett

Biography

Kirsty Nevett leads the fully online MA Fashion Marketing and MA Fashion Business programmes at London College of Fashion in partnership with UAL Online. Appointed as Course Leader in July 2025, she brings together her extensive industry experience with a deep understanding of digital education to guide these innovative programmes serving a global student community year-round. Kirsty played a pivotal role in designing and validating both courses, drawing on her expertise to create curricula that reflect current industry demands whilst maintaining rigorous academic standards. She now sets the academic direction, authors key shared units, and manages a distributed teaching team that delivers online education across multiple time zones and cultural contexts.





From 2022 to July 2025, Kirsty led the MA Strategic Fashion Marketing (Online), the Fashion Business School’s second fully online course. Under her guidance, the course not only secured reapproval in 2024 but also achieved high student satisfaction scores and earned her the student-nominated Arts SU Outstanding Teaching award, recognising her ability to create meaningful learning experiences in digital environments


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Before transitioning to academia in October 2017, Kirsty spent two decades building expertise across the fashion industry. She held senior positions in buying, brand strategy, and innovation at respected retailers and brands including Harrods, Lyle & Scott, and Gloverall. Since joining higher education, she has developed her academic career as a lecturer in marketing, innovation, and consumer behaviour, combining her commercial background with scholarly expertise to bridge theoretical concepts with real-world applications and share insights from international markets.





Her teaching and research focus on consumer behaviour, strategic marketing, and innovation within the fashion sector. She lectures in research methods, supervises postgraduate dissertations, and serves as External Examiner for the University of Winchester. Kirsty holds a PgCert Academic Practice (Distinction) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, reflecting her commitment to evidence-based teaching practices and inclusive online pedagogy.





Colleagues and students appreciate Kirsty's thoughtful approach to online education leadership. She works to create supportive yet challenging learning environments, combining clear academic expectations with pastoral care and coaching both staff and students with empathy whilst maintaining standards. Her teaching philosophy focuses on building genuine learning communities where students feel both supported and intellectually engaged.



Kirsty's work reflects her belief that effective online education requires more than simply digitising traditional teaching methods. She aims to design digital experiences that encourage active participation, critical thinking, and collaborative learning, working to demonstrate that distance need not diminish the quality of educational relationships or academic rigour in fashion business education.