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
Ongoing research projects
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Green blood: Undressing hierarchies to reduce pressure on land through Forest Finn perspectives
In this project, we explore land‑based and relational perspectives and practices to develop new understandings of how pressure on nature can be reduced. We do so through an interdisciplinary approach grounded in Indigenous and minority perspectives. The project aims to contribute to a shift in environmental discourse by fostering embodied connections to forests and land through the body, clothing, and footwear.
Completed research projects
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Want Not, Waste Not
This PhD project is a wardrobe study approach to minimizing synthetic textile waste in Norwegian households.
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Wasted Textiles
The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.
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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
(2026).
Social practices and identity-work: Life course changes as sites for clothing and textile disposal.
Journal of Consumer Culture.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14695405261436281
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
