Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2003), "Awards for Excellence", Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, Vol. 7 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/jfmm.2003.28407daa.002

Awards for Excellence

Awards for Excellence

A. CholachatpinyoI. PadgettM. CrockerCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UKandB. FletcherHertfordshire University, Hatfield, UK

are the recipients of the journal's Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence for their paper

"A conceptual model of the fashion process - part 1: the fashion transformation process model"

which appeared in Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2002

Anothai Cholachatpinyo was a PhD candidate in the School of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The London Institute. His thesis title was "A conceptual model for the apparel industry in Thailand towards domestic fashion origination". He is now a lecturer in fashion design and design management at the Department of Textile Science, Kasetsart University, in Bangkok, Thailand.

He also creates some projects, including design management network, and production of culture/fashion to support the Thai Government project "Bangkok: Fashion Centre of the Region".

Ian Padgett graduated from the Royal College of Art in the late 1960s with a Masters Degree in Textile Design and was made Research Fellow. After working in the industry for several years as designer research and development innovator he became involved in art and design education at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The London Institute where he now works. He restructured the BA (Hons) in Textiles program and created a Masters course in Fashion and Textiles which he directed for nine years. Ian has always maintained his interest in research and has presented his own conference papers and submitted joint papers with his students and colleagues on subjects as diverse as art history and dyslexia. These two topics were brought together in the book Visual Spatial Ability and Dyslexia , which he edited, and was published in 1999. More recently, he has published abroad, his most recent article being published in edition 85 of the prestigious Sanat Dunyamiz arts periodical of Turkey. "Nomadic reflections'' was a critique of contemporary, installation art work in an exhibition in Bandirma.

Maureen Crocker, Emeritus Professor of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, studied fashion design at Saint Martins' School of Art then after a few years in industry taught fashion design at Medway College of Design. In 1983 she completed an OU Degree in Humanities and moved to Birmingham Polytechnic where she became Head of the Department of Fashion and Textiles. During this time she was closely involved with the development of research into aspects of fashion and became the first Chair of Research of the Association of Heads of Degree Courses in Fashion and Textiles Design. She has written several papers on fashion design and education and has been an external examiner and advisor for MA and BA courses in fashion and textile design. She retired from teaching in 1997 and currently is supervising the PhD student who presented the award-winning papers.

Professor Ben (C) Fletcher BA (Keele), DPhil (Oxon), C Psychol., AFBPS, MIOD is currently Research Professor in Occupational, Organisational and Health Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, and Executive Director of the FIT Corporation Ltd. He was educated at Keele University (a degree in Philosophy and Psychology) and then took a doctorate at Oxford University in Experimental Psychology. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a Chartered Health Psychologist and is on the board of various other companies, including having been chairman of Elstree Film Studios Ltd.

From 1992-1999 he was Dean, Business School, University of Hertfordshire and before that Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer, Reader, and then Head, Psychology Department. In 1991 he became a foundation member of a major UK Government Know-How Project, circa £2 million in Romania to establish a Centre for the Improvement of Management Performance (CIMP) in Bucharest.

He has published extensive work including four authored academic books, a battery of psychometric tests, and a large number of journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.