Richard MawleUniversity of the West of England, Bristol | UWE Bristol · Faculty of Environment and Technology
Richard Mawle
BEng MA(RCA) PhD FHEA AMIMechE
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Introduction
Based in the College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE), Richard is currently a Senior Lecturer in Product Design Engineering at the University of the West of England. He is involved in the development, delivery and assessment of modules that form part of the BSc Product Design Technology and BSc Creative Product Design programmes. Richard also continues his work in Sustainable Design and engages more generally in research and knowledge exchange within the domain of Product Design.
Additional affiliations
March 2013 - May 2014
Position
- CLEVER: Closed Loop Emotionally Valuable E-Waste Recovery
Description
- The CLEVER Project aims to assist in a transition from the current throw-away society to a new model shifting focus from designing physical products, to a more sustainable system of goods and services, ultimately leading to longer lasting products.
July 2011 - February 2012
Position
- EPSRC funded feasibility study that investigates novel means of upgrading consumer products to increase their useful lifetime
Description
- Research Assistant working on an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded investigation into novel means for upgrading consumer products so that their owners want to use them for a longer period of time.
July 2011 - December 2014
Education
October 2008
October 2000 - July 2002
October 1996 - July 2000
Independent Researcher
Field of study
- Mechanical Engineering
Publications
Publications (7)
Hibernation, the dead storage period when a mobile phone is still retained by the user at its end-of-life, is both a common and a significant barrier to the effective flow of time-sensitive stock value within a circular economic model. In this paper we present the findings of a survey of 181 mobile phone owners, aged between 18-25years old, living...
Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made environment - how it is produced, how it is u...
This is a conference paper. Further details can be found at: http://www.erscp-emsu2010.org/ This paper reports on an ongoing study that explores how UK based designers, in small design consultancies (SDCs), locate information and learn new skills. Semi-structured interviews were used to improve understanding of the context within which these design...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the industry partner in this project, was concerned about the problem of non-compliance in taking drugs. It prompted them to initiate this study into the means by which compliance could be integrated into medicine packaging. Many compliance aids have been introduced on the market but the problem of non-compliance persists. At...
Based on current definitions of electronic waste, the robotics industry faces a future where products created for both business and consumer markets could be required to meet regulations to manage the control of electronic products at the end of their primary life (e-waste). This paper proposes the new concept of repurposing robots; where a robot a...
Each year in the UK (United Kingdom) hundreds of millions of consumer products are sold, leading to many millions of tonnes of waste being buried or burned annually. While there are many large businesses that produce consumer products, in the UK small product design consultancies (SDCs) make up approximately half of all employed designers. This the...
