Rate My Professor Raechel Laing

Laing's research spans material sciences and technologies, engineering the structure, function, and behaviour of textiles through fibres, yarns, fabrics, finishes, and assemblies, and clothing's role in human health, safety, performance, and well-being, including skin health, compression garments' physiological effects, and injury prevention in workplaces and sports. Over 40 years, her international collaborations have advanced fibre and textile knowledge, evidenced by supervision of exceptional theses and over 3,000 Google Scholar citations. Awards include the Textile Institute's premier medal (2015) for industry-relevant research on fibres, fabrics, and human body interactions, the Holden Medal for Education (1997), and qualifications CText, FTI, HonFTI; she has served on The Textile Institute Council since 2007. Key publications feature 'Compression garments and exercise' (Sports Medicine, 2011), 'Textile sorption and release of odorous volatile organic compounds from a synthetic sweat solution' (Textile Research Journal, 2024), 'Bead-free electrospun nanofibrous scaffold made of PVOH/keratin/chitosan' (Polysaccharides, 2024), 'Fabrics and Garments as Sensors: A Research Update' (2019), and 'Clothing and bedding and its relevance to sudden infant death syndrome' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1994).