John Boddy

Head of Fashion Design

John studied fashion design, specialising in womenswear, at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where he gained a first class honors degree. John went on to assist Alexander McQueen on the infamous Highland Rape collection and then developed his own fashion label and freelance pattern cutting consultancy. John has worked extensively in costume for theatre, TV and film, including the National Theatre and the BBC. He was also one of the founding members of the concept store Luna and Curious in London.

Email	john.boddy@falmouth.ac.uk
Telephone	01326 254242 (ext 4242)

Qualifications

Year	Qualification	Awarding body
2009	PGCHE	Falmouth University
1997	BA(Hons) Fashion Design	Central Saint Martins

Honours and awards

Year	Description
2016	Staff Excellence Award: Best Employer Engagement Initiative

Membership of external committees

Fellow of HEA

Research Interests

Research interests and expertise

Design Matters
A collaborative cross discipline research project sharing design knowledge and practice with artisan women's co-ops, which operate in less industrialised global economies in order to directly increase their sales capacities leading to their economic growth, confidence and independence. Falmouth University will be responsible for providing the language of design input and project partner Babson College (MA.USA) will provide entrepreneurship education and prosperity modelling support for the project. This research project also involves student participation, allowing them to experience and be involved with real world projects, to learn more about different business practices in other cultures and to experience a cross-disciplinary environment.

Academic Lead: Knowledge Transfer Partnership Falmouth University + Fourth Element
2014-2016
Successful development and implementation of 3D scanning technologies for bespoke apparel production, project awarded Grade B by Innovate UK.

Research topics

Design Language
Collaboration
Co-Creation
sustainable and ethical business models

Research Outputs

Publications and research outputs

Report or Working Paper

Boddy, John (2016) Knowledge Transfer Partnership Final Report: Fourth Element/Falmouth University. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted.

Teaching

Areas of teaching

Fashion Design
Conceptual Design
Creative Process
Risk-Taking

Courses taught

BA(Hons) Fashion Design
BA(Hons) Sportswear Design

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