Lecturer / Pathway Lead
Roxane is Pathway Lead and Lecturer on the Integrated Foundation Business and Management for the Creative Industries course at UCA. Roxane uses her research, industry and creative education experience to support UCA students to develop creative, business, and sustainable skills needed to thrive in their futures in the creative industries.
Bio
Roxane has a PgCert in Creative Education and Fellowship of the HEA. Roxane lectures, leads curriculum development on the Integrated Foundation in Business course, and lectures on the Pre-Masters Business course. Roxane has taught on the Graduate Diploma Creative Business Unit, the Fashion Business and Retail Diploma, supported IIF Fashion Textiles and worked as a Creative Workshop Tutor at UCA. Having graduated from University of Manchester (UMIST) with a BSc (Hons) in Textile Design & Design Management, before lecturing Roxane has over 10 years’ industry experience as a textile designer, product developer and in brand development for several UK retail companies across childrenswear, accessories and lingerie. Roxane has also worked in events and promotion. Roxane is enthusiastic to explore and encourage the importance of inclusivity and sustainability in all her teaching, research and design work.
Research statement
Roxane has focused her research to support embedding ESD and supporting a sustainability mindset in courses that she teaches.
She is interested in continuing research and industry collaborations connected to sustainability in fashion and creative industries, ESD (Education of Sustainable Development), arts-based pedagogy, mindsets and creative education. Particularly exploring and using interdisciplinary and art-based pedagogy in creative business education.
Roxane uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNESCO ESD competencies the sustainability mindset principles as a framework of reference in her research and curriculum development.
Journals:
- Butterworth, Roxane(2022) Exploring education for sustainable development in creative disciplines. JUICE: Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education.
- Butterworth, Roxane(2023) AI in creative education: opportunities and challenges for assessment. JUICE: Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education.
Book Chapter:
- “The Sustainability Zine: The value of art-based pedagogy to support education for sustainability in a creative business and management course.” This chapter is included in the forthcoming book “The Power of Arts-Based Pedagogies: Transforming Mindsets to Shape Our Future” by Routledge in the PRME series to be published in 2025.
Conferences/Symposiums:
- “Embedding Education for Sustainable Development as a Core to Creative Business Foundation Course”. Presented 29th June 2024 ECR Network Conference UCA. Sharing abstract from “A study of evidence and methodologies to support embedding ESD as a core to the UCA for Integrated Foundation in Business for the Creative Industries.” Action Research UCA. May-August 2024
- “Sustainable Practices in Creative Education” presented at “UCA Social Justice in Creative Education Symposium” UCA 5th February 2025.
- “Exploring the benefit of arts-based pedagogies to support Education for Sustainability ( ESD) in a creative business course” presented at UCA Creative Education Conference June 18th
- "Transforming Mindsets: The Power of Arts-Based Pedagogy in Education for Sustainability” PDW July 26th, 2025, at85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- “Art as a pedagogical resource- “Innovative art-based pedagogies in education for sustainability” Sustainability Mindset Conference 2025.” Innovative Pedagogies for developing a Sustainability Mindset”. PRME Working Group Sustainability Mindset. July 29, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Find links to all Roxane’s 's research outputs and activities available at UCA's online research portal UCARO
ORCID: 0009-0008-2487-0314
Professional Membership, Affiliation and Consultancy
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, UK
- Roxane is member of the PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset.
- Member of AOM Academy of Management
- Member of The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education EAUC
- Part of SEEd and Our Shared World Network.
- Part of the UCA Sustainability Strategy Group
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