Dr Lynn Wilson is the Adam Smith Research Fellow, Adam Smith Business School, UofG. Originally trained in Fashion and Textile design, Dr Wilson gained a PhD (Management), 2022. Her research investigates consumer household experiences of clothing dirt, contamination, and hygiene, which leads to clothing being kept in circulation or disposed of. In 2021 Lynn founded Circular Design Synergy, a training, mentoring, and research consultancy enabling businesses to transition to the circular business models, and was supported by a funded Creative Entrepreneur
residency, Creative Informatics, University of Edinburgh. From 2013-2017, Dr Wilson was the Sector Manager – Textiles, Circular Economy team at Zero Waste Scotland, contributing to the Scottish Government, Making Things Last – A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland. Since 2018, Dr Wilson has been a non-executive board member of Architecture and Design Scotland an arm’s length Scottish Government public body.
