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Anna Schytte Sigaard

Anna Schytte Sigaard

Job title
  • PhD Candidate
Visiting address
  • Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
  • Office number: X753
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 405 15 440
  • Office: +47 672 38 364
E-mail
  • anna.sigaard@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

PhD candidate on sustainable clothing and textile consumption. Researching textile waste, synthetic textiles and textile fibres.

Themes explored through the PhD project:

- What do wasted textiles from Norwegian households consist of?

- How and why is textile waste created in households, and how is it disposed of?

- What value do people attach to used textiles, and how does this affect textile waste?

- What preferences do consumers have for fibers and textile materials, and how does this affect clothing consumption?

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

  • Want Not, Waste Not

    This PhD project is a wardrobe study approach to minimizing synthetic textile waste in Norwegian households.

  • Wasted Textiles

    The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.

  • WOOLUME: Polish sheep wool for improved resource utilisation and value creation

    The main objective of Woolume is to explore how an under-utilized natural resource – wool from remote mountain regions – can be maximized into materials in local sustainable industry innovation systems that offer high returns on investment and contribute to an optimized, next-generation circular economy.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Laitala, Kirsi (2025). Repairability of clothing and textiles: Consumer practices and policy implications. International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles. Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.1386/sft_00064_1

Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Broda, Jan; Rom, Monika; Kobiela-Mendrek, Katarzyna (2023). Reducing Plastic in Consumer Goods: Opportunities for Coarser Wool. Fibers. Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fib11020015

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Laitala, Kirsi (2023). Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences. Fibers. Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fib11020012

Haugrønning, Vilde ; Broda, Jan; Espelien, Ingvild Svokmo; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Kobiela-Mendrek, Katarzyna; Rom, Monika; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone Skårdal (2022). Upping the WOOLUME: Waste Prevention Based on Optimal Use of Materials. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone (Ed.). Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion. Wool as a Fabric for Change. p. 61-82. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3844714

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Haugrønning, Vilde ; Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone (2022). The Fate of Natural Fibres in Environmental Evaluations: A Question of Volume. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone (Ed.). Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion. Wool as a Fabric for Change. p. 35-59. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3491392

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Haugrønning, Vilde ; Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone (2022). A Fashion Future: Fibre Diet. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone (Ed.). Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion. Wool as a Fabric for Change. p. 171-189. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4773319



These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.

Research reports

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Teigen, Helene Maria Fiane ; Hebrok, Marie ; Throne-Holst, Harald (2026). Green marketing or greenwashing? Consumer perceptions of sustainability claims in clothing and cosmetics. ISBN: 9788270635948. 92 p. Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO, OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5364771

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2026). Want Not, Waste Not: A Practice-Theoretical Study of Textile Disposal in Everyday Life. ISBN: 9788283647358. 246 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5348384

Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Simon, Nina; Rubach, Synnøve; Sadeleer, Irmeline de (2025). Mot en mer bærekraftig garderobe: Forbrukerperspektiver, markedspotensial og faren for grønnvasking i bruktmarkedet. ISBN: 9788270635825. 34 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3199170

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone Skårdal; Gleisberg, Lea (2023). THE PLASTIC ELEPHANT: Overproduction and synthetic fibres in sustainable textile strategies. ISBN: 9788270635566. 98 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3086387

Haugrønning, Vilde ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2021). WOOLUME: Mapping the market for acoustic and sound absorbing products made of wool. ISBN: 9788270635290. 41 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2773899

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad (2021). WOOLUME: Potential new products for vacant wool. ISBN: 9788270635382. 45 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2839326



These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.

Dissemination

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2025). Want Not, Waste Not: A wardrobe studies approach to understanding consumer textile disposal practices. Research Seminar: Anna Schytte Sigaard and Vilde Haugrønning. RMiT.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4730431

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2024). Finske forskere lager klær av gamle pengesedler, aviser og trær.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4879231

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2024). Social Practices and Identity-Work:Life course changes as drivers for textile disposal. ESA Conference 2024.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4019481

Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Lassen, Kjersti (2023). Vi elsker ull, men kjøper syntetisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4139533

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2023). Krever ny ordning for klærne vi kaster: − Mange kommuner er ikke klare.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3337555

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2023). Finner klær i søppelet: − Koster visst 5000 kroner ny.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4754219

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Lassen, Kjersti (2023). – Vi fant overraskende mange plagg med merkelappen på. Folk har kastet helt nye plagg.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5216263

Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2023). NY STUDIE: KLÆR FRA SHEIN INNEHOLDER GIFTIGE STOFFER.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3561999

Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Laitala, Kirsi (2023). Textile waste – past, present and future? Synthetics in Norwegian textile waste in Norway 2000-2023. PlasticsFuture 2023 Conference. Portsmouth University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4474722

Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte (2023). Clothing repair studies. Repairability at Product environmental Footprint category rules for apparel and footwear. PEF.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3726081



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