Jo Turney is a Professor and the Doctoral Programmes Director at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She researches everyday fashion, dress and textile practices. She is the author of The Culture of Knitting addressing knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. She is the founder and editor of Clothing Cultures journal. Her current research considers the 1970s domestic interior in the UK and US, and discusses the blurring of boundaries between home and state through notions of 'freedon', consumption practices, interior design and the adoption of a neo-liberal project.