Associate Professor Tarun Panwar
Details
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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tarun.panwar@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-6980-7326
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
A/Prof. Tarun Panwar is Associate Dean of Fashion Enterprise & Technology in the School of Fashion & Textiles. He is passionate about advancing fashion enterprises and fostering sustainability research in the global fashion industry. He is an award-winning academic leader, in 2023, honored to receive an Australia Award for University Teaching (AAUT), a National Teaching Award and in 2022, RMIT University Teaching Award for outstanding contribution to student learning-Industry Partnered Learning. He leads the discipline having the higher education academic programs; Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise), Bachelor of Fashion & Textiles (Sustainable Innovation) and Masters of Fashion (Entrepreneurship). He has over 25 years of globally recognized academic thought leadership, innovations in pedagogy, and fostering sustainability in Fashion and Textiles. He has designed and delivered several successful fashion enterprise programs including recently new nationally recognized award winning Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program. He is globally credited with innovation in pedagogy and discipline thought leadership. He has long term sustained dissemination of learning deign, pedagogy and discipline research frequently at International level in many global fashion conferences, notably 12 invitations to prestigious annual conferences of IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes, 55 Institutes from 23 countries).Dr. Panwar's is internationally recognized for his research in sustainability of fashion value chains within the Fashion & Textiles sector. His research focusses on fostering sustainability and circularity in innovative fashion business models, supply chains, consumer behaviour, and curriculum.
Supervisor projects
- Enhancing Social Sustainability through Aligned Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategies in the Circular Economy
- 21 Nov 2024
- RECYCLING OF CLOTHING AND HOME TEXTILES HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THIS APPROACH TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE REUSE AND CONSUMPTION OF TEXTILES?
- 21 Nov 2023
- A Study of Vertical Integration Trend in Textile and Garment Industry in Vietnam
- 1 Dec 2022
- An Empirical Investigation of the Antecedents and Outcomes of the Customer Experience for Consumers Purchasing Fashion Products from Social Commerce Platforms in China
- 21 Aug 2019
- Consumers’ Purchasing Intentions for Environmentally Sustainable Fashion in Saudi Arabia
- 3 Jul 2017
Teaching interests
A/Prof. Panwar is passionate about teaching Fashion supply chain management, Sustainability, Fashion marketing and brand management courses across fashion enterprise programs,He is recognised for learning design, industry-partnered learning evidenced by national and University awards. In 2023 I received the Australia Award for University Teaching (AAUT) National Teaching Award. I am passionate about Industry Partnered Learning (IPL) and Career Development Learning (CDL) in learning design and development.
Professional Awards and Distinctions
Year Award or Distinction
2023 Australia Award for University Teaching (AAUT), National Teaching Award – Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
2022 RMIT University Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning – Industry Partnered Learning
2022 Australian Financial Review (AFR) Award for Teaching & Learning Excellence – Finalist of Prestigious Award – RMIT’s Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise): An Innovative Pedagogy for Teaching in a Disruptive Global Industry
2020 School of Fashion & Textiles Award for Learning & Teaching – Contemporary Industry Practices Award – Integrating Industry in Teaching & Learning Practice
Key Grants and Funding
National competitive grants
• 2023 – New Colombo Plan (NCP) Funding, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government, additional funding.
• 2021 – New Colombo Plan (NCP) Funding, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government, funding.
• 2023 – RMIT Centre for Education Innovation & Development (CEID) – Winner of RMIT Competitive Grant 2023.
Awarded past grants including £20,00 GBP by the British Council, London for a collaborative program between fashion and education on embedding social enterprise within the retail supply chain to foster entrepreneurship
Research interests
His global education & research outcome disseminations include: Global Act: Simulation Game for Experiential Learning of Global Fashion Value Chain (Toronto, 2007); Online Simulation Game (Melbourne, 2008); Measuring Compulsive Fashion Shopping behavior (London, 2009); Simulation Game for Enhancing Global Cross Cultural Education (New Delhi 2012); Sustainable Fashion Business Model Design(Beijing, 2016); Contemporary Approaches to New Program Design in Fashion (New Zealand 2023); and Emerging Sustainable Fashion Business Models (Seoul, 2024).
