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Lauren Junestrand Leal
A cross-geographical study of second-hand fashion consumption practices.
Lauren is a researcher in the field of sustainable consumption, investigating second-hand fashion consumption as a contributor to sustainable consumption on a cross-geographical level (UK, Sweden and Spain).
As part of her PhD study Lauren is conducting a representative investigation of second-hand fashion consumer markets exploring the main motivations and barriers encountered by consumers engaging and not engaging with second-hand fashion and the potential relationship of this behaviour with socio-cultural contexts.