Our Experience
This Toolbox has been put together by Dr. Tracy Bhamra and Dr. Vicky Lofthouse members of staff in the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University and made possible by funding from the Learning and Teaching Support Network.
Dr. Tracy
Bhamra (Senior Lecturer)
Tracy currently runs the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Sustainable Design for the
Industrial Design and Technology Students in the Department of Design and
Technology and additional postgraduate modules in collaboration with the Wolfson
School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. Dr 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. Dr Bhamra
has over twelve years of research experience and has been very active in
developing the research area of Sustainable Design in the UK. She holds a number
of UK Government funded research projects investigating Sustainable Design and
its implementation in industry. 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, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Local Action for Textiles & Clothing (LATC), Welsh
Development Agency, Universiti di Federico II Napoli and the Polytechnico di
Milano. She has a BSc in
Manufacturing, MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management and a PhD
in Design for Disassembly and Recycling. She is a Chartered Engineer, a Member
of the IEE, a Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education, and a Fellow of the RSA. Until 2003 Dr Bhamra worked at Cranfield
University where she set up and ran the UK’s first MSc in Sustainable Design.
Vicky has managed and worked on a number of collaborative projects in the field of Sustainable Design with companies such as Electrolux, Huntleigh Technology, GlaxoSmithKline and Boots. She also has two years ecodesign consultancy experience with GlaxoSmithKline. Vicky runs the UK based Sustainable Design Network which brings together over 160 members from Industry, Academia and Public Bodies to discuss issues around Sustainable Design. In recognition on her experience in the field of Sustainable Design Vicky is a reviewer for two international journals and was an invited speaker at a European conference organised by the Centre Du Rhones-Alps in Lyon. Vicky has a BSc in Industrial Design and Technology from Loughborough University and a PhD in Facilitating Ecodesign in an Industrial Design Context from Cranfield University.