Raechel Laing
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Raechel Laing | |
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.jpg) Laing in 2009 | |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
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| Fields | Clothing and textiles |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
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Raechel Margaret Laing is a New Zealand clothing and textiles academic. She is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Otago.[1]
After a 1987 PhD titled The lockstitch seam : a model of the geometric structure and tensile behaviour at the University of Otago, she taught at Otago, rising to full professor.[1]
Laing's research is focused on clothing and has received media attention.[2][3][4][5][6] In 1997 she was awarded the Holden Medal for Education from the Textile Institute followed by the Institute Medal - their oldest award.[7]
