Mrs Siobhan Merrall

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Fashion and Textiles

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 207 8051

E: siobhan.merrall@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Siobhan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles, specialising in Fashion Merchandising and Sourcing and Supply.
Her experience covers all angles of retailing from Store management to Merchandising fashion for top UK retailers and as a Supplier, working with retailers to develop and source product. She has developed training programmes for Merchandisers and Buyers and was part of the trail blazing group developing the Retail Buying and Merchandising Apprenticeship.

Siobhan is a fellow member of Advance HE, an organisation promoting excellence in Higher Education

Research interests/expertise

Sustainability and business models

Psychology and well being

Pedagogy

Areas of teaching

Merchandising
Global Sourcing and Supply
Sustainability

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Psychology
PGCAP (Academic Practice)
PG CERT Psychology and Wellbeing
APA Academic Practice Apprenticeship
FHEA - Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Courses taught

Fashion Buying with specialism in Merchandising

Membership of external committees

Trailblazer Group Retail apprenticeship, 2018/19. Purpose to define and set the standards for a national retail Buying and Merchandising Apprenticeship.