Ms Ruth Jindal

Design historian and cultural consultant with executive experience in arts and cultural instutions. Teaching cultural context in Fashion Communcation and Styling, Fashion Design and Design Crafts.  

Accredited LEGO Serious Play facilitator with a focus on EDI work.

Institute of Art and Design

Creative and Cultural Industries

Reeve, J., Jindal, R., Barton, C. and Stokes, N. (2020) Using Creative and Contemplative Pedagogy to Promote Learning Efficacy and Wellbeing within First-Year, Undergraduate Students. Gateway Papers, 2(1): 5, pp. 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3943/gp.34  

Jordan, J. and Jindal, R. (2019) Problematising Philanthropy in the UK Cultural Sector. In: Granger, R. C. (ed.) Value Construction in the Creative Economy. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jindal, R. (2016) Writing Material Culture History, Textile History, 47:1, 133-135

Design history and dress history

Fashion cultures

Visual culture

Cultural philanthropy

Creative learning and teaching 

Fashion studies

Craft history and cultures

Cultural heritage

Research methods

• MA in Arts Criticism
• PGCertHE
• PGCert in Arts Management
• BA (Hons) History of Design

• Design Crafts BA (Hons)
• Fashion Communication and Styling BA (Hons)
• Design Masters

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research and Teaching Awards 2023-24  - Most Collegiate Lecturer

Staff Recognition Award 2024 - Student Experience

• RSA Fellowship Council, Since 2011, East Midlands Regional Council Member
• Phoenix Arts (Leicester Arts Company Ltd) 2007-2010, Board Member

• Royal Society Of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce (RSA)
• Design History Society

• Institute of Public Relations

Discovery Lab  - interdisciplinary accessibility project combining pedagogy, research and enterprise with a focus on the digital accessibility 

Using LEGO Serious Play for wellbeing and resilience  - transferring pedagogic practice to prisoners and prison workers

Creative and Contemplative pedagogy to support student learning and wellbeing. DMU Learning and Teaching Conference, Leicester. 2021

Crossing the Pond: Transferring American Philanthropic Models of Arts Funding to the UK at Mediating Cultural Value, CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester. 2016

TEDxLeicester 2015 (organiser)

Open Doors Open Minds Conference, DMU, April 2013

The Art of Cultural Philanthropy, 2011, Broadway Nottingham, Conference Organiser

Capacity-building and Leadership in the creative and cultural industries

Arts Council England Buidling Resilience Programme (Diversification)

University Arts Centres consultation and conference

Diversify - mentorship to support diversification in arts leadership

Cultural philanthropy

Meera Curam  - Tactile Traces: Reclaiming women makers’ knowledge in Rangoli practice as intuition, metacognitionand ethnomathematics

Miao Wang  - Inheritance and design innovation of leather craft

Rebecca Walker - The Shape of Trauma: the identification and consideration of new inspirational sources in the work of Henry Moore

Talvir Singh - Photography, inter-generational trauma and identity. 

Completed

Rachel Neal, 1^st supervisor - From Khaki to Civvies: the First World War, Demobilisation and Narratives of Men’s Dress

Rubab Ashiq, 2^nd supervisor - Social Commerce - a Framework for Fashion SMEs in Pakistan

Creative and Contemplative pedagogy to support student learning and wellbeing, Academic Innovation Project, October 2019  - June 2020, Lead with Julia Reeve (Library and Learning Services)

External Examiner, BA (Hons) Fashion, Northumbria University, 2023-27

Chief External Examiner, Manchester School of Art, 2017-2021

External Examiner, Edinburgh Napier University, 2015-2019