Alice Payne is a Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT. Her research centres on environmental and social sustainability concerns throughout textile and apparel industry supply chains. Alice has examined perspectives on sustainability along the cotton value chain, the cultural and material flows of post-consumer textile waste, and design processes of mass-market product developers, independent fashion designers, and social entrepreneurs. She is author of the book Designing Fashion's Future (Bloomsbury 2021) and co-editor of the book Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion (Bloomsbury 2019).