# Alison Ward

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Drapers Sustainable Fashion Conference 2024 - CottonConnect, Primark, and New Look

Retracing fashion's steps to build in sustainability Understanding how and where fashion retailers are tackling sustainability is critical: these changes – even seemingly small ones – can have a huge impact. Our panel explored: How are fashion retailers creating products built to last, and reduc…

Building resilience through regenerative cotton in India

While in India, Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb spoke with CottonConnect’s CEO Alison Ward and global supply chain director Dawa Dorje about their sustainable cotton programme that focuses on delivering a supply chain with end-to-end transparency. They discuss the importance of smallholder inclusion a…

The future of cotton farming: scaling regenerative sourcing

On 6th June, IF hosted a free webinar in partnership with CottonConnect. Regenerative sourcing has shown significant promise for the cotton industry; helping to regenerate soils, support ecosystems, and improve farmer livelihoods all whilst increasing yield. With initial pilots showing the potenti…

Monday briefing – What's the sustainable approach to cotton?

This week: CottonConnect's Alison Ward spoke with Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh at the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in Amsterdam. They discussed what climate resilience looks like in cotton production and the unintended consequences of over-reliance on technology to tackle this…

Research in the limelight: Theatre to enhance bonds between people with dementia and their carers

In this podcast episode, Associate Professor Dr Alison Ward talks about her background in the arts and how she has combined this with her academic passion for dementia innovation and support. Dr Ward also discusses dementia interventions that she and the team at the University’s Dementia Research …

Monday briefing – Transforming apparel supply chains, and tackling Scope 3 emissions

This week: Innovation Forum’s Niamh Campbell introduces the upcoming 2025 sustainable apparel and textiles USA conference, taking place in New York on 24-25 June. She highlights the focus of the conference and recently confirmed speakers from apparel brands, such as Coach, New Balance, Forever 21, …

Season 4 - Episode 5

What a shame some people don't understand the nature of a podcast sponsorship! A woman phones in about her husband's erectile dysfunction, whilst a young admin assistant is delighted with Clinton's abilities to rid her of an office bully. Next, there is a totally unreasonable request by a board mem…

Season 1 - Episode 4

Well, a lot of antagonism this week. Some kill-joy religious bloke phones up to challenge our Clinton on his extraordinary skills. Clinton sees him off of course! Next up he hides a microphone as he faces a disciplinary meeting with the Society for Parapsychological Research in London and with the …

Woman Dies, Learns the Plan for Our Lives - NDE

Alison Ward had a near-death experience where she was travelling through a tunnel, seeing images of people from her life. She saw a beautiful, healthy version of her granddad, and then was told that it is not yet her time to go. Upon coming back, she was visited by an angel. Then, she learned that…