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Topics

Enquires are very welcome from those who are keen to pursue a PhD on a topic linked to one or more of the following areas:

• Design for sustainability and circular economy
• Product-Service System design for sustainability
• Design for socio-technical transitions (transition design)
• Ecodesign
• Design for sustainable behaviour
• Design for energy access in low- and middle-income contexts
• Design for distributed economies
• Sustainable business model for distributed manufacturing
• Design for sustainable social innovation
• Codesign and participatory approaches
• Crowdsourcing
• Design tools and methods

Research supervision

PhD researchers

Completed:

• Silvia Emili: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (completed, Feb 2014 - Oct 2017, principal supervisor): 
• Aine Petrulaityte: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Manufacturing (completed, Feb 2016 - Oct 2019 principal supervisor): 
• Kyung Joo Cha: PhD on affective design scenarios for the automotive sector (completed, co-supervisor): 
• Daniel De La Flor: PhD on a human-centred approach to co-design with drivers (on going, Research Development Advisor):  
• Hyejin Kwon: PhD on design for social enterprises (completed, Research Development Advisor):  
• Yuan Long: PhD on reusable packaging systems (completed, Feb 2018 - Mar 2022, principal supervisor):  
• Qais Ahmad: PhD on design for behaviour change to tackle food waste (completed, Oct 2018 - June 2023, principal supervisor):  

On-going:

• Yueyun Fan: PhD on how to use living labs to test user experience and adoption of solutions to tackle the problem of plastic waste (on going, principal supervisor)
• Charlie Bradley: PhD on track & trace technologies applied to reusable packaging systems (on going, co-supervisor)
• Tamba Konteh: PhD on circular design principles for the metal value chain (on going, principal supervisor)
• Andrew Earl: PhD on energy transition and living labs in South Africa (on going, co-supervisor)
• Young Choo: PhD on new product development in original brand mantufacturer firms (on going, co-supervisor)

Post-doctoral researchers

• (2024 - on-going) Dr Anouk Zeeuw Van Der Laan: working on the UKRI NERC PISCES, A system analysis approach to reduce plastic waste in Indonesian Societies
• (2021 - 2024) Dr Alessio Franconi: working on the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Circular Metals 
• (2021 - 2023) Dr Nazli Terzioglu: working on the UKRI NERC PISCES, A system analysis approach to reduce plastic waste in Indonesian Societies 
• (2020 - 2022) Dr Aine Petrulaityte: Mainstreaming Gender for Energy Security in Poor Urban Environments, funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and the Newton Fund through the British Council  

Research Assistants

• (2024 - on-going) Chris Tait, working on the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Circular Metals 
• (2024 - on-going)) Damienmarc Ford, working on the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Circular Metals 
• (2021-2022) Charlie Bradley, working on the GENS, Mainstreaming Gender for Energy Security in Poor Urban Environments project
• (2016 - 2017) Silvia Emili, working on distributed energy sytems applied to product-service system innovations
• (2015) Aine Petrulaityte, working on the EPSRC OpenFood project

Visiting researchers and PhD researchers

• (2024) Ms Laura Torca Adell: PhD on user perceptions on product repairability
• (2024) Ms Alessandra Canfield Petrecca: PhD on democratic aspects related to data management in product-service systems
• (2019 - 2020) Dr Alessio Franconi: Design for circular economy 
• (2019 - 2020) Mr Ivo Spitilli: PhD "Integrated solutions of Design for All and Ecodesign for product innovation in the kitchen furniture industry", funded by “Programma Operativo Nazionale Ricerca e Innovazione (PON RI 2014/2020) Action I.1– Innovative PhDs with industrial characterization”