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Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Nancy Bocken

Current work

Nancy Bocken works for the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability.

Background

In September 2011, Nancy submitted her PhD with the Low Carbon Materials Processing Group in Cambridge sponsored by Unilever. She investigated how consumer goods manufacturers can negotiate their future carbon targets. As part of her PhD, she developed and tested tools to help expand and evaluate corporate portfolios of eco-innovative ideas, and developed eco-innovative strategies for future action.

Previously, Nancy worked as a research assistant on the project: "Well Dressed - The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom". The report proposed a range of future opportunities to improve the sustainability of the textiles and clothing industry.

In addition, Nancy has worked in industry for DHL, Accenture and ING and has always demonstrated a great interest in how sustainability may be embedded in business practices. For the Centre for Industrial Sustainability she will be working in close contact with other academic institutes, industry, NGO’s and policy makers to find ways to help the industrial system become more sustainable on the short and longer-term.

Research interests

include (amongst others):

• Sustainable business (model) development
• Systemic sustainable industry change
• Eco-ideation
• Sustainable consumption

Publications

Reducing carbon emissions associated with consumer goods

• Bocken, N., Allwood, J., Willey, A., King, J. 2012. Development of a tool to rapidly assess implementation difficulty and emissions reduction benefits of innovations. Technovation, 32 (1), 19-31
• Bocken, N., Allwood, J., Willey, A., King., J. 2011. Development of an eco-ideation tool to identify stepwise greenhouse gas emissions reduction options for consumer goods. Journal of Cleaner Production. 19 (12), 1279-1287.
• Bocken, N., Allwood. J., Willey, R., King, H. 2011. Development and testing of a tool set to rapidly identify and evaluate a range of GHG reducing options for consumer goods manufacturers. 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE), Berkley, 7-10 June, 2011.
• Bocken, N., Allwood. J., Willey, R., King, H. 2011. A tool-set to significantly reduce supply chain wide CO2 emissions associated with consumer goods. GreenBridge seminar for Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), Cambridge, April 2011.
• Bocken, N., Allwood. J., Willey, R., King, H. 2010. Design, testing and evaluation of an eco-ideation tool. The 3rd International Conference on Eco-Efficiency, Egmond-aan-Zee, Netherlands, 8-11 June 2010.
• Bocken, N., Allwood, J. 2010. Negotiating long-term targets to remove carbon emissions associated with consumer products. Poster presentation. CUEN Annual Conference, Driving Change: Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century, Cambridge, June 2010.

Well dressed?

• Allwood, J., Ellebæk Laursen, S., Russell, S., Malvido de Rodríguez, C., Bocken, N. 2008. An approach to scenario analysis of the sustainability of an industrial sector applied to clothing and textiles in the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 (12), 1234-1246
• Allwood, J., Ellebæk Laursen, S., Malvido de Rodríguez, C., Bocken, N. 2006. Well dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom. University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing. PDF: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/projects/mass/uk_textiles.pdf
• Allwood, J., Laursen, S., Malvido, C. and Bocken, N. 2007. Scenario analysis of the future sustainability of the supply of clothing and textiles to the UK, 4th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE), Toronto, 17-20 June, 2007.