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Dr Fabrizio Ceschin
Reader in Design
Michael Sterling 156
- Email: fabrizio.ceschin@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267394
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”