Marta Ferri
PhD studentProfile
Pluriannual experience in HE teaching as a guest lecturer and graduate teaching assistant at Lancaster University. Experienced research centre coordinator in NGO and academia. Professional experience in sustainable waste management within the Zero Waste European network and China. Worked at a global international alliance on packaging-related organisational issues. Doctoral researcher in plastics and the Circular Economy at Lancaster University. Background in Cultural Anthropology (University of Bologna) and African Studies (University of Dalarna).
Current Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
- OWT.100 Management and Organisational Behaviour
- OWT.101 Organisation, Work & Technology
- OWT.512 Advanced Studies and Professional Skills
Guest lecturer:
- OWT.101 Management, Organisations and Work: Key Issues and Debates
- OWT.232 Management and Sustainability - World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Student Bootcamp.
Current Research
My research focuses on plastics and the Circular Economy. It looks at how global organisations organise circular economy solutions to tackle the plastic crisis and attempt to promote a real change.
Plastic Packaging in People's Lives: Rethinking the consumer attitude behaviour gap
Invited talk
UKSS International Conference 2023
Participation in conference - Academic
OTB3 (Opening the Bin 3) – Waste, economy, culture and society: ‘One World, one Bin?’
Other
OTB3 (Opening the Bin 3) – Waste, economy, culture and society: ‘One World, one Bin?’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Futures work at Lancaster University no.2: The little book of plastics in everyday life
Invited talk
Plastic Future, Plastic Capture
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Re-opening the circle: an interdisciplinary perspective into the Circular Economy
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Plastic waste and microplastic conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
FCRI Symposium
Other
Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Oral presentation
Responsibility and Plastic Packaging: Exploring the issues for the packaging supply chain
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Re-Opening the bin: Waste, economy, culture and society
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
OWT Brown Bag seminars series
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
ESRC Methods X – Ethnography stream
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
15th Organizational Studies Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
OWT Brown Bag seminars series
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Re-Opening the bin: Waste, economy, culture and society
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Klosters Forum 2019
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
13th Organization Studies Summer Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Workshop – Uncanny Futures: Speculative Ecologies of Waste
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Opening the Bin Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
- Centre for Technological Futures
- Pentland Centre