I am a senior research fellow specialised in circular economy. I work on the interface of academic research and practice to facilitate participation processes for the transition towards a sustainable circular economy.
Within the circular economy space I focus on governance, business model innovation, renewables, network analysis, and participation process management. I actively collaborate with governmental organisations, companies and NGOs to investigate how circular economies can be realised.
I am the Technical Programme Manager for the Transforming Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub "TransFIRe". I am also heading the Yorkshire Circular Lab and the Wind Energy Lifecycle Sustainability group at the University of Leeds. I have completed research and impact projects to integrate circular economy principles into the offshore wind sector and the decommissioning of oil & gas infrastructure, and have led the Resource Recovery from Waste programme.
My PhD research focused on the co-evolution of industrial symbiosis - i.e. waste to resource innovation - with social networks and governance systems. Before that I completed an MSc in applied ecology and conservation with a specialisation in participatory governance.
Research interests:
1) Resource recovery from waste, circular economy theory, sustainable development, whole system change, integrated environmental, social and economic progress.
2) Participation process management, social network theories, governance dynamics, evolution of industrial systems and business model innovation.
3) Applying circular economy to the decommissioning of infrastructure in the waste (e.g. landfills), extractive (e.g. mining and oil & gas), energy (e.g. wind, solar) and transport (e.g. electric vehicles, rail) sectors.
Experience
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2021–presentVisiting Research Fellow, Cranfield University
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2021–presentSenior Research Fellow in Circular Economy, University of Leeds
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2020–2021Research Fellow in Sustainable Offshore Wind Development, University of Leeds
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2019–2021Research Impact Fellow in Circular Economy, University of Leeds
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2016–2018Programme Lead Resource Recovery from Waste, University of Leeds
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2018–2018Industrial Impact Fellow, University of Exeter
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2012–2015PhD Researcher in Industrial Symbiosis, University of Surrey
Education
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2016University of Surrey, PhD Industrial Symbiosis
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2010University of East Anglia, MSc Applied Ecology and Conservation
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2009Van Hall Larenstein, Ba Wildlife Management
Publications
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2022The UK Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub (TransFIRe), REWAS 2022: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles (Volume I)
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2022Circular business models in the wind industry: a comprehensive analysis and conceptual framework for circular business model innovation, Sustainable and Renewable Energy Reviews
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2021Principles for a sustainable circular economy, Sustainable Production and Consumption
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2021Reducing material criticality through circular business models: Challenges in renewable energy, One Earth
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2021Editorial, Waste and Resource Management
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2021Trouble on the horizon: Securing the decommissioning of offshore renewable energy installations in UK waters, Energy Policy
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2021A Framework and Baseline for the Integration of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Offshore Wind, Energies
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2020Modularisation as enabler of circular economy in energy infrastructure, Energy Policy
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2020Highlighting the need to embed circular economy in low carbon infrastructure decommissioning: The case of offshore wind, Sustainable Production and Consumption
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2020Developing policies for the end-of-life of energy infrastructure: Coming to terms with the challenges of decommissioning, Energy Policy
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2020Resource Recovery From Waste, Frontiers in Environmental Science
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2019New Governance for Circular Economy: Policy, Regulation and Market Contexts for Resource Recovery from Waste, Resource Recovery from Wastes
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2019Circular economy and the matter of integrated resources, Science of the Total Environment
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2019A Call to Integrate Economic, Social and Environmental Motives into Guidance for Business Support for the Transition to a Circular Economy, Administrative Sciences
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2019Making the business case for resource recovery, Science of The Total Environment
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2019A new perspective on a global circular economy, Resource Recovery from Wastes
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2018Co-producing a vision and approach for the transition towards a circular economy: perspectives from government partners, Sustainability
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2017Resource recovery from waste: Restoring the balance between resource scarcity and waste overload, Sustainability
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2017Initiating resource partnerships for industrial symbiosis, Regional Studies, Regional Science
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2016Promoting industrial symbiosis: Using the concept of proximity to explore social network development, Journal of Industrial Ecology
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2016Promoting industrial symbiosis: empirical observations of low-carbon innovations in the Humber region, UK, Journal of Cleaner Production
Grants and Contracts
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2021TransFIRe: Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub
- Role:
- Technical Programme Manager
- Funding Source:
- UK Research and Innovation
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2020Yorkshire Circular Economy Living Lab
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Research England
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2020A Sustainable Circular Economy for Offshore Wind
- Role:
- Researcher Co-Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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2019The social, economic, technical and environmental values of North Sea oil & gas decommissioning for local communities and companies
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Leeds, United Kingdom
- Website
- @AnneVelenturf
- Article Feed
- Joined
