Julie Gork

Dr. Julie Gork

Lecturer, Enterprise & Technology

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Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Julie Gork is Lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles. She is a fashion studies scholar whose research broadly explores bodies and society, with a focus on sensory knowledge, diversity and disability.

 

Julie is the co-founder of the SENSE: Research and Education Network for Sensory, Inclusive, and Critical Fashion Practices and is currently working on a book about fashion and the sensory knowledge of blindness. She has 7 years industry experience as a fashion trend forecaster and design coordinator.

UN sustainable development goals

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities

Research interests

Fashion theory, sensory knowledge, diverse bodies, disability, sociology

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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