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Marta Ferri

  • Organisation Work and Technology
  • Centre for Technological Futures
  • Pentland Centre
Type of address: Postal address.
Lancaster University
Charles Carter Building
LA1 4YX
Lancaster
Type of address: Postal address.
Bailrigg
Lancaster University Management School
LA1 4YX
Lancaster
United Kingdom

Email: m.ferri@lancaster.ac.uk

Employment

PhD, Waste as resource in the "age of austerity". Sustainable development and circular economy in local communities. A case study.

Organisation Work and Technology

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Supervised by: Alison Frances Stowell, Theodore Vurdubakis

1/10/2017 → present

PhD, Centre for Technological Futures

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

1/10/2017 → present

PhD, Pentland Centre

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

1/09/2017 → present

PPiPL Project Administrator

Clerical and Related

Organisation Work and Technology

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

3/07/2023 → 31/03/2024

PPiPL Project Administrator

Clerical and Related

Organisation Work and Technology

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

21/02/2022 → 2/07/2023

Research outputs

Morality and Discipline of single-use plastics

Ferri, M., 30/06/2024, (Accepted/In press) Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities: Reopening the Bin. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Plastic futures: Mobilising circular economy contexts to address the plastic crisis

Ferri, M., Stowell, A. & Whiteman, G., 20/03/2023, Handbook of the Circular Economy: Transitions & Transformation. Alexander, A., Pascucci, S. & Charnley, F. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 307-331 24 p.

Final Report: Zero Waste Italy and Friends of Nature Twinning Exchange

Ferri, M. & Lin, Y., 13/09/2016, Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs: Social & Environmental Justice · Climate Change & Low Carbon Development. Sausmikat, N. & Gebauer, I. (eds.). China-Program of the Stiftung Asienhaus, p. 20-26 7 p.

La rete regionale Rifiuti Zero Sicilia. L'agency attivista nello spazio agito di una società in movimento

Ferri, M., 4/09/2015, Spazio-azione nuovi paradigmi di ricerca multidisciplinare. Meschiari, M. & Montes, S. (eds.). Aracne Editore, p. 201-212

Chapati & Chips: Esercizi di pensiero cosmopolita fra gli studenti di Nairobi

Ferri, M., 3/03/2014, Pop Food: Il cibo dell'etnografia. Franceschi, Z. & Peveri, V. (eds.). I Libri di Emil, p. 109-134

Activities

UKSS International Conference 2023

Rodney Irwin (Keynote/plenary speaker), Alison Stowell (Chair), Alison Stowell (Presenter), Clare Mumford (Contributor), John Hardy (Contributor), Maria Piacentini (Contributor), James Cronin (Contributor), Charlotte Hadley (Contributor), Linda Hendry (Contributor), Alexandros Skandalis (Contributor), Marta Ferri (Contributor) & Savita Verma (Contributor)

15/09/2023

OTB3 (Opening the Bin 3) – Waste, economy, culture and society: ‘One World, one Bin?’

Alison Stowell (Organiser), Marta Ferri (Organiser), Teresa Aldren (Organiser), Bev Abram (Organiser), Herve Corvellec (Organiser), Jutta Gutberlet (Organiser), Francisco Valenzuela (Organiser), Maria Jose Zapata Campos (Invited speaker), Lucy Wishart (Organiser), Sarah Surak (Organiser), Manisha Anantharaman (Keynote/plenary speaker), Blanca Callen Moreu (Keynote/plenary speaker), John Chweya (Keynote/plenary speaker), Trisia Farrelly (Keynote/plenary speaker), Josh Lepawsky (Keynote/plenary speaker), Patrik Zapata (Keynote/plenary speaker), Crispin Halsall (Invited speaker), Alexandra Harrington (Invited speaker), Lauren Munro-Bennett (Invited speaker), Patrick O'Hare (Invited speaker) & Rendon Michael (Invited speaker)

15/06/2023 → 17/06/2023

OTB3 (Opening the Bin 3) – Waste, economy, culture and society: ‘One World, one Bin?’

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

15/06/2023 → 17/06/2023

Futures work at Lancaster University no.2: The little book of plastics in everyday life

Alexandros Skandalis (Speaker), Alison Stowell (Speaker), Maria Piacentini (Active Contributor), James Cronin (Contributor), Marta Ferri (Contributor), Charlotte Hadley (Contributor), John Hardy (Contributor), Linda Hendry (Contributor), Matteo Saltalippi (Contributor) & Savita Verma (Contributor)

2/05/2023

Plastic Future, Plastic Capture

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

28/11/2022

Re-opening the circle: an interdisciplinary perspective into the Circular Economy

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

15/09/2022 → 16/09/2022

Plastic waste and microplastic conference

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

12/07/2022 → 14/07/2022

FCRI Symposium

Marta Ferri (Contributor)

5/07/2022 → 8/07/2022

Morecambe Bay Curriculum

Charlotte Hadley (Speaker), Maria Piacentini (Contributor), Alison Stowell (Contributor), James Cronin (Contributor), Marta Ferri (Contributor), John Hardy (Contributor), Linda Hendry (Contributor), Clare Mumford (Contributor), Alexandros Skandalis (Contributor) & Savita Verma (Contributor)

21/03/2022

Responsibility and Plastic Packaging: Exploring the issues for the packaging supply chain

Maria Piacentini (Organiser), Alison Stowell (Organiser), Ian Schofield (Keynote/plenary speaker), Amy Victoria Benstead (Invited speaker), James Cronin (Chair), Alexandros Skandalis (Chair), Caroline Moraes (Invited speaker), Charlotte Hadley (Presenter), Linda Hendry (Chair), Paul Coughlan (Invited speaker), Gonzalo Espiga Paraiso (Invited speaker), Savita Verma (Presenter), Herve Corvellec (Invited speaker), Matteo Saltalippi (Presenter), John Hardy (Member) & Marta Ferri (Contributor)

23/09/2021

Re-Opening the bin: Waste, economy, culture and society

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

10/06/2021 → 12/06/2021

OWT Brown Bag seminars series

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

3/03/2021

ESRC Methods X – Ethnography stream

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

11/12/2020

15th Organizational Studies Workshop

Marta Ferri (Speaker), Alison Stowell (Contributor) & Theodore Vurdubakis (Contributor)

20/05/2020 → 22/05/2020

OWT Brown Bag seminars series

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

5/02/2020

Re-Opening the bin: Waste, economy, culture and society

Sebastian Carenzo (Member of programme committee), Herve Corvellec (Member of programme committee), Jutta Gutberlet (Member of programme committee), Ulirka Holmberg (Member of programme committee), Caroline Petersson (Member of programme committee), Alison Stowell (Member of programme committee), Sandra Samuelsson (Member of programme committee), Patrik Zapata (Chair), Maria Jose Zapata Campos (Chair) & Marta Ferri (Organiser)

1/09/2019 → 12/06/2021

The Klosters Forum 2019

Marta Ferri (Participant)

26/06/2019 → 28/06/2020

13th Organization Studies Summer Workshop

Marta Ferri (Speaker) & Alison Stowell (Speaker)

24/05/2018 → 26/05/2018

International Workshop – Uncanny Futures: Speculative Ecologies of Waste

Theodore Vurdubakis (Contributor), Alison Stowell (Contributor) & Marta Ferri (Speaker)

26/03/2018

Opening the Bin Conference

Marta Ferri (Speaker)

30/03/2017 → 2/04/2017