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Skills and Projects

Over my time at university, including my extra-curriculars and my placement year, I have developed many important and transferrable skills.

My Projects

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CNIDARIA - Business Plan

CNIDARIA is a business plan I developed to emphasise fashion being for everyone, not just the "ideal" body types. CNIDARIA explores style and personal identity whilst staying accessible for consumers of all body types.

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Nottingham Re-Imagined

As a group, we were tasked to bring a new retailer into the city centre, with rational for where and why. We delved into WEEKDAY and came up with innovative marketing plans and targeted a niche demographic which thrives in this city (skaters).

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Market Development

For this project in my second year, we had to work in pairs to introduce a pre-existing brand into a market it is not in yet. We chose Jaded London to begin trading in Denmark, which used systems such as Google Trends, Passport and WGSN - and Adobe Illustrator for a new set of designs.

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Copywriting Project

As part of my placement year, when I worked at Candid Digital I was in charge of creating blogs for multiple different brands, as well as for the company itself, using Canva, Shopify, SEMRush and WordPress.

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Band Rebrand - Personal Project

As a personal side project, I had to rebrand my band's whole social media, as it was lacking in identity and a clear tone. I fully transformed the whole social media from random posts to a co-ordinated and much more consistent image.

Certificates

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October 2025

TIWC Student Bursary Awardee

In Summer 2025 I was accepted for a student bursary to attend the Textile Institute World Conference in Porto, Portugal. I gained a lot of insight into textile innovation whilst there and was presented with a certificate to commemorate my attendance.

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March 2023

Sustainability in Practice Certificate

As part of my coursework in my first year I completed the Sustainability in Practice for Clothing. Completing this meant fully understanding the impact of fashion on the environment, which is where my passion for sustainability was born.

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