Newly employed within MISTRA Future Fashion Spring 2012

Miriam Ribul is a graduate from the MA Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins, and is currently the TED Research Assistant for the MISTRA Future Fashion Project 3.

She acted as the Research Assistant on the Transformable Packaging exhibition for the VF Corps ‘Futurewear’ showcase in the United States in March 2012, and is a co-founder of textile design collective POSTextiles which debuted at the London Design Festival in 2011.

Miriam has experience as a product developer and researcher for companies such as Microsoft and Nissan where she developed concepts for the future relevance of textiles. She has worked in various European companies in Italy, Austria, Germany and the UK.

Sarah Netter started her PhD in June 2012 at the CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility and she will work within MISTRA Future Fashion Project 7 (Sustainable consumption and consumer behaviour). Professor Lucia A. Reisch is her Director of Studies, while assistant professor Wencke Gwozdz is her second supervisor.

While studying Business, Language and Culture (BSc and MSc), Sarah took the opportunity to build her own profile, focusing on sustainable consumption, CSR, and cross-cultural consumer research. Sarah has a broad interest in different topics that fall within the realm of sustainable consumer research. In her master thesis, Sarah adopted a mixed-methods approach for investigating the purchasing motives of Danish and German organic wine consumers. 

The PhD project she will work on accrued from her previous involvement as a research assistant with the MISTRA Future Fashion Program (since September 2011) and her earlier engagement in fashion projects with CBSs Creative Encounters. Sarah aims to identify the most promising choice setting factors in the retail environment whose alteration can induce change in young consumers’ fashion consumption.

Sandra Roos started her PhD studies at the department of Chemical Environmental Science at Chalmers University of Technology in February 2012. She is an industrial PhD student working within MISTRA Future Fashion project 2 and has been employed since 2008 at Swerea IVF as an environmental specialist.  Main areas of expertise are life cycle assessment (LCA) and chemicals in products.  Sandra has 10 years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA) as both practitioner and methodology developer. She has performed several LCAs for textiles for both companies and authorities.

Sandra formerly worked as project manager and environmental expert within the Swedish competence centre CPM – Centre for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems. Sandra has also worked with chemicals management in car interiors at Volvo Car Corporation.The work in the MISTRA project Future Fashion concerns sustainability strategies for the Swedish fashion industry with special focus on including chemicals in the assessment of fashion product’s life cycle environmental performance.

Kirsti Andersen is employed as a PhD student within MISTRA Future Fashion project 1 to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and a fashion company’s ability to develop new sustainable practices and business models. It does this through the application of the French sociologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical triad consisting of habitus, capital, and field, coupled with an ethnographic approach to data collection. Her PhD project will in this way be built on her Master Thesis, where the construction of fashion was investigated, and her experience working with innovation and creativity in cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural teams, at CIID.