Dr
Mila BurcikovaProfile page
Reader in Fashion Systems
London College of Fashion
- Reader in Fashion SystemsLondon College of Fashion
BIO
The work of Dr. Mila Burcikova focuses on alternatives to the current fashion system. Through her research and knowledge exchange practice Dr. Mila Burcikova explores and generates new systems approaches to how fashion is conceived, made, perceived, and enjoyed in everyday life. Her current projects investigate the connections between fashion and agriculture, rural and urban fashion systems, and the role of time and cyclical patterns in sustainable living. In addition, through her continuing ethnographic and practice research on emotional durability of clothing, she develops the concept of mundane fashion. Mundane Fashion serves as a metaphor for a holistic understanding of how fashion’s deeply personal, cultural, social, and environmental implications are experienced in people's everyday lives
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON APPOINTMENTS
- Research Development LeadLondon College of Fashion, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London, United Kingdom1 Apr 2023 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Reader in Fashion SystemsUniversity of the Arts London, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London, United Kingdom1 May 2024 - present
- Postdoctoral Research FellowLondon College of Fashion, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, United Kingdom1 Oct 2018 - 30 Apr 2024
DEGREES
- PhDSchool of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Centre for Fashion and Costume Thinking, United Kingdom1 Jul 2020
- MA Cultural StudiesFaculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Department of Theory and History of Culture, Czech Republic30 Sep 2006
- BA equivalent Ethnology and Cultural AnthropologyFaculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia30 Sep 2000
CERTIFICATIONS
- Supervising Postgraduate Research CertificateUniversity of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom1 Jun 2024 - presentStaff and Educational Development Association (SEDA)
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- CzechCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- SlovakCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- FrenchCan read, write, speak and understand
- GermanCan read and understand
- RussianCan read and understand
STAFF/STUDENT
- Staff