Rimi Khan

Associate Professor Rimi Khan is Vice Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow in the School of Fashion and Textiles, investigating regenerative fashion systems in the Asia-Pacific. Rimi’s research investigates the cultural and community impacts of sustainability innovations in global south communities,  particularly low-carbon, resource-efficient materials that supply fashion systems, and new biomaterials which offer the potential to enhance community wellbeing and ecological resilience. She aims to collaborate with biomaterial researchers, designers, and enterprise scholars to support reparative and restorative practices.    Before joining RMIT, Rimi worked in Singapore and Vietnam, and has an international profile as an educator and researcher specialising in the cultural and creative industries. She has published extensively on cultural sustainability and diversity politics in the fields of fashion, art and creative labour. Rimi has expertise in socially engaged and cross-cultural research, and significant experience in implementing multi-stakeholder and multi-sited research projects working with government, community and private sector research partners.