Donna Cleveland

Associate Professor Donna Cleveland is the Deputy Dean of School and provides academic quality assurance, academic development and promoting the scholarship of learning and teaching. Her work in the field of sustainable design, articulates fashion and textiles thinking and systems. Her creative practice is engaged with issues of materiality, making and resilience across areas of art, design and creative technology. Her previous roles include Associate Head of School- Learning and Teaching at the School of Future Environments, AUT and Program Director of the Creative Technologies undergraduate and postgraduate programs, AUT.

Awards & recognition
Auckland University of Technology, Faculty Champions Award 2021
Auckland University of Technology, Faculty Champions Award 2020
Auckland University of Technology, Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral
Scholarship, 2014 - 2017, three-year tenure
Colab PhD fees scholarship, 2014, one year tenure
AUT, Textile Design Lab Materials Award, 2014
Auckland University of Technology Postgraduate Art and Design
Summer Research Grant, Sustainable Textiles, October 2013 to March 2014
School of Art and Design Postgraduate Research Award, 2013 Auckland University of Technology
AUT Head of Fashion School Award, 2012