Tetyana Solovey is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, where her research explores the affective and material dimensions of sustainable fashion practices, with a particular focus on upcycling post-consumer textiles.

Her scholarly interests include fashion, sustainable consumption, clothing reuse, material culture, media, and affect theory. She has presented her research at various academic conferences, including the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference and postgraduate networks at UCL and UoM. Her upcycled poster showcasing research on remaking won the Early Career Researchers Poster Competition at the Sustainable Futures Conference “Co-Created Futures” (2025).

Tetyana actively contributes to sustainability discourse through public engagement initiatives such as the ESRC Festival of Social Science (2025) and community events on clothing repair and reuse. Alongside her PhD, she works as editor of the Sustainable Consumption Institute blog at UoM, where she introduced new formats and provided guidance to encourage PGR participation, helping develop writing skills and strategies for communicating research beyond academia.

Before entering academia, Tetyana gained over 15 years of professional experience in the fashion industry as a journalist, editor, and curator, including seven years as Fashion Features, Jewellery, and Sustainability Editor at Vogue Ukraine, where she pioneered sustainability advocacy in Ukrainian fashion media.