Louisa Rogers

Lecturer

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Louisa Rogers is a lecturer in fashion communication at Northumbria University with an interest in security studies, fashion and digital cultures. Her current research focus is on representations of surveillance, technology and militarism in fashion contexts.

She runs Trendlistr Vintage, a retail e-commerce brand, and completed the Cambridge University Institute for Sustiainability Leadership Accelerator programme in 2020.

She is also a founding committee member of Colour Collective UK, a not-for-profit organization that promotes colour education through multidisciplinary workshops and lectures that incorporate neuroscience, visual culture, art history and psychology.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Her research interests examine the intersections of fashion and security, including, but not limited to:

Surveillance and wearable technology
Militarism in fashion and design
Fashion trends and moral panic
Meme culture, conspiracies and representations of gender
TikTok trends
War and politics in fashion advertising

Key Publications

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TikTok Teens: Turbulent Identities for Turbulent Times, Rogers, L. 1 Oct 2021, In: Film Fashion and Consumption
Fashioning Frankenstein: Deathliness, technology and the body in contemporary fashion photography, Rogers, L. 15 Mar 2024, In: Fashion, Style and Popular Culture

Professional Activity

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Other: Teach Critically Project 2026
Publication Peer-review: Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty (Journal) 2026
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Emerging Voices in Creative Practice Symposium 2026
Oral presentation: Styling Security: Representing Global Politics in the Fashion Sphere 2024
Invited talk: Fascist Fashion, The Far Right & The Insurrection 2024
Oral presentation: This Barbie Is... Taking On the Government! Theorising the Costume-As-Meme 2024
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: British International Studies Association Conference 2023
Invited talk: Fashion & Politics: Considerations for Research 2023
Oral presentation: Bionic Babes & Mechanical Models: Transhumanism in Fashion Imagery 2023
Oral presentation: Drones, Dresses & Decadence: Feminizing UAVs in Fashion 2023