Lecturer / Pathway Lead

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Roxane Butterworth

Roxane is Pathway lead and Lecturer on the Integrated Foundation Business and Management for the Creative Industries course at UCA. Roxane also teaches units on the pre-master’s creative business course. Roxane has taught on the Graduate Diploma Creative Business Unit, Fashion Business and Retail Diploma, supported IIF Fashion Textiles and worked as a Creative Tutor for Outreach at UCA.

Bio

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. 

Roxane has a PgCert in Creative Education and Senior Fellowship of the HEA. 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, lingerie and accessories. 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 and design work. 

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. 

Research statement

Roxane is interested in continuing research and industry collaborations connected to sustainability, 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 has focused her research to support embedding ESD and supporting a sustainability mindset in courses that she teaches.  

Roxane has published work including in the Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education (JUICE), PRME Routledge book series and has presented at conferences in the UK and Internationally.  

Journals:

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/Exhibitions:

  • ““Arts-Based Pedagogy in Action: Unleashing Creativity and Humanness to Nurture Sustainability Mindsets” PRME Global Forum 2026. June 28th ( online) Onsi Sawiris School of Business at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt from 28-29 June, 2026.  
  • “Opportunity of Arts-Based Pedagogy to support ESD”. ESD exchange Conference 2026. April 16-17th De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.  
  • “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. 
  • PDW co -presented won MED Division 2025 Best Professional Development Workshop (PDW) in Management Education and Development at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in Copenhagen, Denmark. July 2025. 
  • "Transforming Mindsets: The Power of Arts-Based Pedagogy in Education for Sustainability” PDW July 26th, 2025, at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
  • “Exploring the benefit of arts-based pedagogies to support Education for Sustainability ( ESD) in a creative business course” presented at  UCA Creative Education Conference UCA Epsom, UK.  June 18th, 2025.  
  • Exhibition “Materials Models Mindsets- The Sustainability Zine.” Research abstract and supporting work exhibited from a selection of Integrated Creative Business Foundation students as part of the Materials, Models, Mindsets exhibition of staff and students from UCA Epsom, UK. 7th April -7th May 2025. 
  • “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 (internal paper) . May-August 2024. 
  • “Embedding Education for Sustainable Development as a Core to Creative Business Foundation Course”. Initial Research Presented 29th June 2024 ECR Network Conference UCA. 

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

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Advance HE, UK 
  • Member of the PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset.  
  • Member of the PRME Working Group on Arts for Impact 
  • 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 
  • ECR member 
  • Diploma for the Sustainability Mindset Principles Action Lab 2025 
Roxane Butterworth

Research outputs

All of Roxane's research outputs and activities are available on UCA's online research portal, UCARO.

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