““I bomme, as a bombyll bee dothe”: an (un)random research journey” – Dr Garrath Wilson, Loughborough University, presenting at the Net Zero Conference 2022, ‘Research Journeys in/to Net Zero: Current and Future Research Leaders in the Midlands, UK’ (on Friday 24th June 2022 at De Montfort University)

1. I bomme, as a bombyll
bee dothe: an
(un)random research
journey
Dr Garrath T. Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Experience Design
School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University

2. Hello I’m
Garrath!
Senior Lecturer in Experience
Design at Loughborough
University
@designgarrath

3. Hello I’m
Garrath!
“All you can do is try your best.”
- Barbara Wilson

4. Product
Designer
London Underground trains
through to Scalextric and single-
use disposables.

5. CCC
Doctoral Researcher on the The
Carbon, Control and Comfort
project.
Domestic heating energy
reduction in social housing.

6. LEEDR
Research Associate on the Low
Effort Energy Demand Reduction
project.
Digital interventions to support
energy reduction.

7. CLEVER
Research Associate on the Closed
Loop Emotionally Valuable E-
Waste Recovery project.
Product-service systems and
mobile phone hibernation.

8. CORE
Co-Investigator of the Creative
Outreach for Resource Efficiency
project.
Public engagement through a
STEM toolkit.

9. PPFTG
Principal Investigator of the
Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go
project.
A £1.15m ‘design-led’ project to
reduce the impact of food to go
packaging.

10. PPFTG
We are investigating the
problems and limitations of
packaging disposal, industry
collaboration, and enabling
technologies in the transition
towards a CE.

11. PPFTG
Multidisciplinary collaboration
to understand supply chain
value, technology for tracking
and cleaning, and consumer
behaviour.

12. PPFTG
Working with the M&S supply
chain towards a live novel FTG
packaging and service trial next
year.

13. PPFTG
“This is a big project…why is it
led by design and not
engineering or polymer
science?”
- Everyone

14. PPFTG
• Frame creation
• Design for change
• Collab’ + translation
Wilson, G.T., Clark, N., Hatton, F.L., Trimingham, R. and
Woolley, E. (2022), Perpetual plastic for food to go: a
design-led approach to polymer research. Polym Int.

15. PPFTG
Alt.(ernative) Lab.(elling) and
new packaging metaphors with
the Many Happy Returns team.

16. Next project?
Open to collaboration within
domains where the status quo
must be challenged and
changed.
Where I can “try my best”.

17. 2049…
It finally broke, consumers
asphyxiated, it needed to
change.

18. I bomme, as a bombyll
bee dothe: an
(un)random research
journey
Dr Garrath T. Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Experience Design
School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University