Dr Fabrizio Ceschin
Reader in Design

Michael Sterling 156

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:

Completed:

Silvia Emili: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (completed, Feb 2014 - Oct 2017, principal supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15594
Aine Petrulaityte: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Manufacturing (completed, Feb 2016 - Oct 2019 principal supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/19437
Kyung Joo Cha: PhD on affective design scenarios for the automotive sector (completed, co-supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17434
Daniel De La Flor: PhD on a human-centred approach to co-design with drivers (on going, Research Development Advisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21717
Hyejin Kwon: PhD on design for social enterprises (completed, Research Development Advisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/25027
Yuan Long: PhD on reusable packaging systems (completed, Feb 2018 - Mar 2022, principal supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/25152
Qais Ahmad: PhD on design for behaviour change to tackle food waste (completed, Oct 2018 - June 2023, principal supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27096

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)

(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 https://gens.sun.ac.za/

(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

(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”