Rachel Turner is a Researcher at the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice at Keele University.Alex Russell studied printed textiles in Manchester, and worked as a designer and teacher before becoming a full-time lecturer in Nottingham. He then set up a freelance business, working from Brussels, Amsterdam and the UK, with an international client list creating print, pattern, forecasting and illustration work for fashion and interiors.Alex is now a senior lecturer on the Textile Design for Fashion programme at Manchester Metropolitan University and continues to practise as a freelance designer. His work features widely in books on print and pattern, and his research interests… include exploring the potential of digital fabric printing and generative design.