Daniel Miller is professor of anthropology at University College London. His work is mainly associated with the development of two branches of anthropology. Firstly the study of material culture including books such as Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Materiality, The Comfort of Things and Stuff. More recently he has developed the study of digital anthropology. His latest book The Good Enough Life published with Polity Press is an attempt to reset the relationship between anthropology and philosophy through contrasting an ethnography of a small town in Ireland with philosophical writing about what life should be. In 2012-7 he ran the Why We Post project which was responsible for a book series with UCL Press that in July 2020 passed one million downloads. From 2017-2021 he ran the ASSA (Anthropology of smartphones and smart ageing) project that is currently being published. He also recently created a game (Trinifoodquiz for downloading on smartphones), with Sheba Mohammid. This is intended to help people in Trinidad learn about the relationship between diet and hypertension.
Professor in clothing and sustainability Ingun Grimstad Klepp works with research on sustainable textile, clothing, laundry and leisure consumption. Since 1999, she has been working at Consumption Research Norway OsloMet. The relationship between textiles, social and physical characteristics and how these are woven together is at the core of her interest. Klepp has been essential in developing the research field through advancing methods, projects, knowledge and discourse about clothes and their role in society and our lives, including clothing habits, laundry, lifespan, product development and value chains. Ingun actively shares her knowledge in the media, through exhibitions, debates, and popular books and Encyclopedia articles.
See the webpage Clothing research for more information.