Profile
| First Name: | Charlie |
|---|---|
| Surname: | Hackett |
| Position: | Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles and Researcher |
| Telephone: | +44 (0) 1224 263622 |
| Email: | c.hackett@rgu.ac.uk |
| ORCID: |  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3791-4378 |
MA, Graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, freelance designer and community arts worker, social practice, artist, advocate for GAMH, Lecturer across many universities across the UK including Glasgow School of Art and Winchester School of Art, Stage 2 Coordinator for Fashion & Textiles, Lecturer on the MA programme, researcher.
Online Profiles
- https://www.eunationalsstudy.com/
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charlie-Hackett
- https://www.gcph.co.uk/assets/0000/3174/Book_final_version.pdf
- https://graysresearch.wordpress.com/charlie-hackett/
- https://changingmindsaberdeen.wordpress.com/about/
Duties and Responsibilities
Teaches Textiles and Fashion across Stages 1 and 2, runs the drawing and visualisation module for Stage 2, writes and delivers all briefs for Stage 2 on fashion, textiles and drawing & visualisation. Charlie uses his experiences as a socially engaged artist and applies this to lecturing on both the MA programme and the undergraduate programme. He is also a researcher and applies this knowledge to lecturing on the MA programme. Charlie’s specialist area in research is the use of visual methods in qualitative research - this is a specialist niche area that is quite new. He has a lot of knowledge in this area that can be disseminated across the university
Academic Background
- Masters from the Royal College of Art
Research Interests
- Pandemic
- Brexit
- Care Leavers
- Mental health
- Social media
- Gender
- Violence against women and girls
- Terrorism
- Homelessness
Current Research
- British Academy Leverhulme Research Grant Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among middle-aged European citizens. Interdisciplinary research with the School of Applied Social Sciences, Dr Lucia Ruggerone, Sociologist.
- E Nurture, Care leaver relationships, mental health and social media with Edinburgh University
Funding
- British Academy Leverhulme Research Grant Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among middle-aged European citizens. This research funding was significant, highly competitive out of 800 applications and the only award to be given at RGU.
- E Nurture, Care leaver relationships, mental health and social media with the Social work department at Edinburgh University https://www.enurture.org.uk/funded-projects
Publications
- 2020 Journal Article: Changing Minds: Challenging Stereotypes between Art and Homelessness. The international Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v15i03/27-43
- HACKETT, C., 2013. Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 7 (3), pp. 1-14. https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/transferable-skills-and-the-drug-dependent
- Visualizing the Invisible: Applying an arts-based methodology to explore how healthcare workers and patient representatives envisage pathogens in the context of healthcare associated infections. Arts & Health: An international Journal for Research, Policy and Practice. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17533015.2013.808255#.Ujmc1rTvz0E
Other information
- Specialist in Visual Methods in research
- Specialist in Social practice