Alice Payne

Professor Alice Payne

Dean, School of Fashion & Textiles
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Dr Alice Payne is a Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT. Her research focuses on environmental and social sustainability issues throughout the life cycle of clothing. Recent work has examined labour issues in the cotton value chain, as well as technologies to address the problem of textile waste. Alice was part of the Australian Fashion Council-led consortium designing the National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme. She is author of the book Designing Fashion's Future, co-editor of Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, and is an award-winning designer and educator. 

Supervisor projects

  • Scaling out, not scaling up: exploring local craft ecosystems of micro/small enterprise as interventions for circular textile futures
  • 15 Jul 2025
  • Quantifying Circular Economy Impacts in Australian workwear
  • 12 Jun 2025
  • Product stewardship beyond borders: extending global downstream responsibility for Australian used clothing.
  • 25 Sep 2024
  • Fashion localism: Understanding local fashion ecologies for cultivating fashion systems that flourish in place
  • 20 Nov 2023
  • Towards a New Materialist Framework for Biodiversity in Textile Supply Chains: Improving the management of textile supply chains to support biodiversity outcomes, via mixed- methods research of Australian textile production sites.
  • 15 Nov 2023
  • Open Dress-ing: Design Explorations Through Making and Wearing
  • 7 Aug 2023
  • Investigations into digital fashion: exploring applications and relationships for fashion
  • 4 May 2023
  • Underexposed: The digital transformation of fashion supply chain transparency
  • 1 Feb 2023
  • Textile Urban Metabolism: Investigating the Flows of Unwanted Textiles Throughout the Urban Environment
  • 10 Dec 2020

Research interests

Sustainability, Fashion, Circular Economy, Design Practice and Management, Fashion and Textile Design
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Acknowledgement of Country

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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