Lucy Dunne

Loughborough University Scholar Award

Lucy Dunne is a Professor of Apparel Design at the University of Minnesota, where she founded and co-directs the Wearable Technology Lab. Her research addresses the future of what we wear: what it can do, how we will make it, and what impacts it has on the world around us. Clothes keep us comfortable, connected, and capable, and emerging technologies add new capacities and strengthen existing functions.

At Loughborough University, Lucy will collaborate with the Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre to understand how on-body heating can mediate indoor thermal comfort and help us reduce energy waste in climate control. She'll also be working on a book about the ways in which clothing can protect us from the ever-increasing hazards of our current world.

This award is sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission.