Alison's research interests focus on social and organisational responses to the challenges of waste. Specific areas of interest include: Organisation and management responses, waste policy, negotiating values attributed to waste and waste as a particular type of work. Although, for the past 10 years her preoccupation has focused on electronic waste (e-waste e.g. computers, laptops, mobile telephones etc), her curiosity relates to most forms.  

I am interested in supervising students in subjects that are waste related or ideas surrounding the Circular Economy. More specifically, topics that focus on social, organisation and managerial responses, the negotiations surrounding values attributed to waste and waste as a particular type of work.

Postgraduate

EMBA Business Ethics and Sustainability (Convenor for Ghana and Contributing Lecturer for UK), MBA Responsible Management and Ethics (Contributing Lecturer), LUMSNET Pilot - Managing e-Waste (Convenor), Dissertation Supervisor.

Undergraduate

OWT.314 Business Ethics and Sustainability, Dissertation Supervisor.

Co-Principal Investigator - Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives

Co-organizer for Re-opening the bin – Waste, economy, culture and society 

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Leadership Program Faculty Member and Academic Advisor.

BSc Business and Information Technology (Portsmouth)

MSc Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change (Lancaster)

PhD Organisation, Work and Technology (Lancaster)

Alison joined the Department in 2014, prior to moving into academia; she worked in both public and private sector organisations. Alison has worked at the Crown Prosecution Service, IBM and as a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She is an accredited IBM IT Specialist and has held multiple roles during the time spent working there. These roles included Technical Support, Service Management and Service Operations.

Alison's current research are interdisciplinary and collaborative venture:

1.  UKRI NERC Plastic Packaging in People's Lives: Bridging the consumer attitude behaviour gap with Professor Maria Piacentini, Dr James Cronin, Dr Alex Skandalis, Professor Linda Hendry, Dr John Hardy, Dr Charlotte Hadley, Dr Matteo Saltalippi and Dr Savita Verma.

2. Re-Opening the bin conference, Goteborg, Sweden, June 2021 https://www.gu.se/en/school-business-economics-law/business-administration/re-opening-the-bin-waste-economy-culture-and-society

3. IAA: A violet biotechnology understanding (law, ethical and philosophical issues) of organic electronics with Dr John Hardy, Dr Noel Cass and Dr Hilary Stewart. 

UKRI NERC (£760,257) - Awarded to Professor Maria Piacentini (PI), Dr Alison Stowell (Co PI & CI), Dr James Cronin (CI), Dr Alex Skandalis (CI), Professor Linda Hendry, Dr John Hardy (CI) for the Plastic Packaging in Peoples Lives: Bridging the consumer attitude-behaviour gap (Nov 2020-Oct 2023)

UK WEEE Funds (£200,000 - Pentland Centre (£51,000) - Awarded to Anthesis (PI), Valpak (CI), REPIC (CI), Dr Alison Stowell (LU Pentland Centre PI), Dr Dmitry Yumashev (CI), Oliver Schaer, Camilia De Jesus Silva (April 2019-December 2019).

ESRC IAA (£6500) - Awarded to Dr Alison Stowell (PI) and Dr John Hardy (PI) for IAA: A violet biotechnology understanding of organic electronics (Sept 2019-Feb 2020)

REPIC Grant (£81,175.20) - Awarded to Dr Alison Stowell (PI), Dr Dmitry Yumashev (CI), Dr Lingxuan Liu (CI) for the UK EEE and WEEE Quantification and Compliance Target Study (Sept 2017 - July 2018).

Santander Universities Global Division and Lancaster University International Projects Award (£25,000) - Grant awarded to send Lancaster University Management School Students to attend the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Annual Meeting (October 2017, April, 2018).

Santander Universities Global Division and Lancaster University International Projects Award (£10,000) - Grant awarded to send Lancaster University Management School Students to attend the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Annual Meeting (April 2016).

Economic and Social Research Council - (UK) +3 studentship; Doctoral Scholarship in pursuance of a PhD in Organisation Studies focusing on the organisation of Electronic Waste, Lancaster University Management School, University of Lancaster.