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Assistant Professor

Ms. Theodora Kailou

Short CV

Doris has been a member of the Arts and Communication Department at Frederick University since 2014, where she serves as an Assistant Professor in the Fashion and Image Design program. Prior to this, she taught at Frederick Institute of Technology from 2004. Her teaching focuses on Fashion and Textile Design, Pattern Cutting, Garment Making, Fashion Marketing, and Computer Aided Pattern Cutting. She has guided students in design competitions and collaborations with the fashion industry. Doris holds a BA in Fashion and Textile Design from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She also completed a Master of Teaching in Design and Technology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include Fashion and Textile Design and design sustainability, which she actively integrates into her teaching practice. At Frederick University, she has contributed to the development of the Fashion Design program and the organization of workshops and design presentations. She currently serves as a senior researcher in the EU-funded project “Exploring Green Futures: Integrating the New European Bauhaus into Art and Design Education” (Futures Designed). She has also participated as a speaker at international conferences, including the Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she presented her research on “Co-Designing Sustainable Fashion: Participatory Practices with Refugee Women in Cyprus.” Alongside her academic work, she is a board member of the Fashion Heritage Network Cyprus and works as a freelance designer specializing in children’s theatrical costumes for ‘Short Stories’.