Dr Clio Padovani PhD, MA RCA, SFHEA
Deputy Head of School (Education)

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Dr Clio Padovani is Deputy Head of School (Education) for Winchester School of Art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton.
Clio is a graduate of Tapestry at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Her PhD is from the University of Southampton, awarded in 2019 for a thesis titled: Banal and Splendid Form: revaluing textile makers’ social and poetic identity as a strategy for textile manufacturing innovation.
Clio has a track record as an exhibiting artist and academic, teaching textiles between 1995 and 2014 as Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Between 2003 and 2008 Clio was Director of Undergraduate Studies at WSA, leading on School wide curriculum restructure and programme development. She has held External Examiner posts at Manchester Metropolitan University and Norwich University of the Arts. She is Senior Fellow of the HEA, since 2012, and a mentor and panel reviewer for the University’s HEA accreditation scheme.
Since 2009, she has been working with other international stakeholders on EU funded projects, exploring design heritage as a driver for innovation policy in the textile industry. As an independent researcher, she is exploring the narrative and material culture of textile production , publishing on interdisciplinary thinking through film, weaving and writing. She is co-author of Sustainability and the Social Fabric - Europe’s new textile industries, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic.