Kirsi Laitala

Research projects

• CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption

  In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.

• Direct and Indirect Costs of Disabilities in Children (BUDGET)

  The research project addresses the costs aspects of caring for a child with a disability.

• LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability

  How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?

• Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)

  This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.

• REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics

  The project will look at plastic in a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced.

• 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.