Evaluating Feedback Interventions: A Design for Sustainable Behaviour Case Study
Garrath Thomas Wilson
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Dr. Garrath T. Wilson is a Lecturer in Industrial Design and is part of the Sustainable Design Research Group at Loughborough Design School, UK. His research interests include the psychology of energy consumption and behaviour change strategies; the ethics and design considerations of behavioural interventions; design for sustainable and resilient futures; and more recently, emotionally durable design and product-service systems. Drawing upon an industrial design consultancy background, design has always been central to Garrath’s research approach, generating design concepts and physical prototypes as speculative and disruptive probes or as behavioural change agents. Garrath has written and talked internationally on the topic of Design for Sustainable Behaviour and is enthusiastic about both industry and public engagement.
Tracy Bhamra
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
United Kingdom
Professor Tracy Bhamra is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Enterprise) at Loughborough University and Professor of Sustainable Design. Professor Bhamra has extensive research experience in the field of sustainable design initially during her PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and then following that at Manchester Business School and Cranfield University before joining Loughborough University in 2003 where she established the Sustainable Design Research Group. Her research focuses on Design for Sustainable Behaviour, Methods and Tools for Sustainable Design, and Sustainable Product Service Systems. Tracy has over 150 publications associated with her research and has been awarded over £2.5m of funding for her research from the UK government and research councils and a number of large industrial organisations. Professor Bhamra has supervised over 20 successful PhDs and has acted as an external examiner for PhD theses in the UK and internationally.
Debra Lilley
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
United Kingdom
Dr. Debra Lilley is a Senior Lecturer in Design at Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University. Debra has an MRes in Innovative Manufacturing, Sustainability and Design and completed the 1st UK PhD in Design for Sustainable Behaviour, an emerging field of research seeking to reduce the environmental and social impacts of products by moderating users’ interaction with them. Debra is Co-Investigator on CLEVER: Closed Loop Emotionally Valuable E-waste Recovery and CORE: Creative Outreach for Resource Efficiency. Both are funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Debra has extensive knowledge and experience of applying user-centred sustainable design methods and tools to generate behavioural insights to drive design development of less-resource intensive products.