Georgia McKie

Background

Georgia McKie has contributed to the Surface Pattern portfolio and the University since Oct 2001. She specialised in Constructed Textiles at the Royal College of Art, and has worked in varying design capacities and work modes ever since, aligning to, and shaping the multidisciplinary nature and ethos of this programme.

She has been Programme Manager for Surface Pattern and Textiles since 2014, seeing the programme through significant changes, challenges, successes and growing acclaim. Enabling students to become highly employable and innovative designers is her driving force.

A career high point saw the programme reaching No.1 in the Guardian rankings for Fashion and Textiles in 2020, with a consistent top ten position in the survey for every year entered. Recently Georgia has completed the Advance HE Aurora Leadership Development Programme, and is enjoying the challenges of her most recent new role, Assistant Academic Director, Quality.

Specialist Subjects

Programme Manager Surface Pattern and Textiles
Assistant Academic Director (Quality, Art & Media)
Multidisciplinary Design Practitioner
Creative Industry Liaison and Live Projects
Graduate Employment, Embedding Employability and Entrepreneurship
Schools and Colleges Link Work - ISE Skills Wales, Swansea's Got Textiles Talent

Professional and/or Research Experience

Georgia McKie was recognised as WAG designated ‘Academic Champion of Enterprise’ in early 2020 in recognition of her support in the delivery of the Welsh Government entrepreneurship commitments within the Surface Pattern & Textiles programme, and wider University context. This activity is role defining; characterised by sustained, ambitious, big impact externality and knowledge transfer. Highlights include the programme participating in the global fashion & textiles trade fair Premier Vision Paris for the best part of 10 years, engagement with luxury heritage brands and global brands such as Rolls Royce, Laura Ashley, H&M & Hallmark, liaising with emerging and smaller scale enterprises from the programme network and alumni, and through meaningful participation and investment in the local community and cultural sector. Scoping out and securing yearly live projects across a complexity of far-reaching multidisciplinary design scenarios is a key aspect of her role.

Qualifications

MA RCA Constructed Textiles - Royal College of Art 1997 - Master of Arts
BA(Hons) Textiles Design and Surface Decoration - Buckinghamshire College (Bucks New Uni) 1995 - First Class Honours

Languages Spoken

English

Academic Teaching

Surface Pattern and Textiles (Full-time) (BA Hons)

External Recognition or Rewards

HEA/Advance HE, Senior Fellow since 2016
Welsh Assembly Government Academic Champion of Enterprise since 2020
Advance HE Aurora Class of 2025