Dr Fabrizio Ceschin
Reader in Design

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:

• Ms Silvia Emili: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (completed, Feb 2014 - Oct 2017, main supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15594
• Ms Aine Petrulaityte: PhD on Product-Service Systems applied to Distributed Manufacturing (completed, Feb 2016 - Oct 2019 main supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/19437
• Ms Kyung Joo Cha: PhD on affective design scenarios for the automotive sector (completed, co-supervisor): https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17434
• Mr 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 

On-going:

• Mr Yuan Long: PhD on reusable packaging systems (on going, main supervisor)
• Mr Qais Ahmad: PhD on design for behaviour change to tackle food waste (on going, main supervisor)
• Mr Tamba Konteh: PhD on circular design principles for the metal value chain (on going, main supervisor)
• Mr Gabriel Mothibedi: PhD on design policy for Botswana (on going, co-supervisor)
• Ms Young Choo: PhD on new product development in original brand mantufacturer firms (on going, co-supervisor)
• Ms Hyejin Kwon: PhD on social enterprise ecosystems (on going, Research Development Advisor)

Post-doctoral researchers

• Dr Alessio Franconi: Circular business model innovation for the metal sector, funded by the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Circular Metals (2021-2024) 
• 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 (2019 - 2022) https://gens.sun.ac.za/

Visiting researchers

• 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” (2019 - 2020)