School staff
Professor Tracy Bhamra
Dean of Loughborough Design School
Tel +44 (0)1509 228316
Email t.bhamra@lboro.ac.uk
Location LDS 2.16
Personal profile
Tracy Bhamra is Professor of Sustainable Design. She has a BSc in Manufacturing and an MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management. She completed her PhD in Design for Disassembly and Recycling at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1995.
Professor Bhamra has extensive research experience in the field of sustainable design initially during her PhD and then following that at Manchester Business School and Cranfield University. During this time she has been very active in developing the research area of Sustainable Design.
In 2001 Professor Bhamra received funding to establish the Sustainable Design Network, this is now self-funded and has over 250 members. Her research work has been funded by ESPRC, DEFRA, DTI and a number of industrial organisations including, Boots, Huntleigh Technology, BT, Nortel, Electrolux, ICL and Tencel. She has also acted as an internal and external examiner for MSc, PhD and EngD theses in the UK and Internationally.
In recognition of her experience in the field of Sustainable Design she has been an invited speaker at various events and conferences including those organised by the Design Council, the Northern Ireland Growth Challenge, British Standards Institute, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Local Action for Textiles and Clothing (LATC), Ecotextiles 2004, Welsh Development Agency, Universiti di Federico II Napoli and the Polytechnico di Milano.
Tracy has been involved in teaching since 1992. Whilst at Cranfield University she set up and ran the MSc in Manufacturing: Sustainability and Design which was the first UK postgraduate course focussing specifically on sustainable design. At Loughborough University she is the Module Leader for the 2nd year undergraduate module in Sustainable Design. Professor Bhamra has also organised a number of short courses for companies in the area of sustainable design. These include Ford, GKN, MOD, Racal, and around fifty SMEs.
Tracy has over 100 publications associated with her work and has been awarded funding totalling over £1.1 million from various bodies such as DEFRA, EPSRC, DTI, Design Council and a number of industrial organisations.
Teaching
- DSB013 Sustainable Design
- DSB001 Year 2 Design Practice: Design Week
- DSC021 Dissertation
- DS0013 Advanced Methods and Tools for Sustainable Design
- DSP860 Sustainability and Design
- DSP865 Sustainable Design Major Project
Research
Research group: Sustainable Design.
Principal research activities and interests
Methods and Tools for Sustainable Product Design; Solutions, Systems and Services for Sustainability; Design for Sustainability; Design for Sustainable Behaviour, Sustainable Design Education.
Technical Author for British Standards Institute PAS 8910.
Featured publications
Bhamra T A and Lofthouse V A, Design for Sustainability: A Practical Approach, Gower Publishing, Dec 2007, ISBN 0 566 08704 9.
Lofthouse, V A, Bhamra T A and Trimingham, R L 'Investigating consumer perceptions of refillable packaging and assessing business drivers and barriers to their use' Packaging Technology and Science, 22, 2009, ISSN 0894-3214. DOI: 10.1002/pts.857.
Loveday D L, Bhamra T A, Tang T, Haines V J A, Homes M J and Green R J 'The energy and monetary implications of the '24/7' 'always on' society' Energy Policy, 36(12), 2008, pp 4639-4645, ISSN 0301-4215.
Bhamra T A 'Ecodesign: The Search for New Strategies in Product Development', Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 218 (B5), pp557-569, 2004, ISSN 0954-4054.