Keynote Speakers
Dr Patsy Perry
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Patsy Perry is a Reader in Fashion Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She gained her PhD, a qualitative study of Corporate Social Responsibility in garment supply chains, from Heriot-Watt University in 2012 and has published her work in academic journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Business Research. Her expertise includes the environmental and social impacts of fashion and she is regularly featured in the media. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 Live, TalkRadio, BBC Newsbeat and quoted in The Telegraph, The Independent and The Observer, CNN and the South China Morning Post amongst others. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management and an Editorial Advisory Board member of the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.
Dr Marco Pedroni
University of Ferrara, Italy
Marco Pedroni is an Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy). He obtained his PhD in Sociology and social research methodology from the Università Cattolica of Milan, with a thesis on coolhunting, and conducted post-doctoral research at the same institution and at the University of Bergamo. He takes regularly part in the research activities of ModaCult Centre at the Università Cattolica di Milan.
He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Politecnico of Milan and as a Guest Lecturer for several courses and institutions, including the London College of Fashion, the Milano Fashion Institute, the Marangoni Institute, the University of Seville, the Izmir University of Economics, the Winchester School of Art, Southampton Solent University, Aalto University and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
He is the author of Coolhunting (FrancoAngeli, 2010), a co-editor of Moda e arte [Fashion and Art, FrancoAngeli, 2012) and Fashion Tales: Feeding the Imaginary (Peter Lang, 2017), and the editor of From Production to Consumption: The Cultural Industry of Fashion (Interdisciplinary, 2013). His works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals like Fashion Theory and Poetics.
He is a Co-Editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies published by Intellect Books.
As a fashion scholar, his research interests range from trendwatching to digital media, creative professions and cultural intermediaries.
Dr Socrates Karidis
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Coventry University London
Dr. Socrates Karidis joined Coventry University Group in 2017 and was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Coventry University London in September 2020 after having served as Deputy and acting Chief Executive Officer.
Socrates holds a PhD in Economics from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA). He joined the Faculty of Economics at Bentley University in Boston in 1998 where he spent eight years as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Director of the Economics and Finance Learning Centre.
Upon his relocation to Greece, he joined the Business College Athens and went on to become Head of the Business School. In 2013, Socrates joined Leeds Beckett University and later that year he moved to the University of Bedfordshire Business School with the responsibility to develop the Economics provision. Following the successful development and launch of a number of Economics courses, Socrates became Head of Law and Finance and served on a number of committees including the Business School's Executive Group and the University's Strategic Planning Group.
Socrates has published in the areas of Foreign Direct Investment, economically induced migration, institutional trust, public finance and economic policy. He has participated in a number of conferences, workshops and other events as presenter, discussant or panel member and has a number of PhD completions and examinations.