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The cluster lead for Global Cultures: Material, Textual and Visual is Dr Serena Dyer, an Associate Professor of History of Fashion and Material Culture. She is a broadcaster, author, and curator, specialising in histories of dress, manufacture, and consumerism. She is author of Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18^th Century (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Recent edited volumes include, with Sarah Bendall, Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press, 2024) and, with Chloe Wigston Smith, Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is the lead of the AHRC-funded Making Historical Dress project, and writes and presents the digital series, Fashion Through History, for English Heritage.