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Dr. Farzaneh Fakhredin

Lecturer in Circular Economy and Innovation

Area
School of Management
Faculty of Management, Sciences & Engineering
E-mail
f.fakhredin@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274232634
Dr. Farzaneh Fakhredin

Biography

Dr. Farzaneh Fakhredin is a lecturer specializing in applied design engineering and circular economy research. Drawing on her PhD and industry collaborations, she works directly with companies and stakeholders to redesign products, develop sustainable tools, and test circular interventions in practice. Her work bridges research and action, translating theory into tangible outcomes while fostering co-creation and systemic change.

She has led projects that improved the recyclability and repairability of electronics products, several of which have successfully launched in the market. By embedding research within real-world organizational and product systems, she generates actionable insights that advance both knowledge and impact. Her expertise spans action research, co-creation and participatory research, research through design, participatory methods, living labs and pilots, embedded case studies, and longitudinal qualitative methods, all applied to enable circular and sustainable innovation.

Ultimately, she inspires and educates designers and business managers to recognize the power of their choices and decisions, and to intervene in, test, and reshape real systems to create actual change through intervention-based methodological approaches.

Research

Circular Economy, Sustainability, Product Design, EcoDesign, Design + Business Innovation

Research projects

Industrial Symbiosis

Role
Co-I

Working with the municipalities of Leeds and Bradford and business stakeholders to facilitate industrial symbiosis, waste from one sector becomes a new input material for another sector

Repairability of Wearable Electronics

Role
PI

Assessing the design of wearables for repairability

Fab2Paper: Transforming Textile Waste into Paper. UKRI-Innovate UK project.

Role
Co-I

Collecting and turning waste fabric to quality paper.

Teaching

Circular Economy, Sustainability, Product Design, EcoDesign, Design + Business Innovation

Modules

  • Climate, Crisis and You - OIM5020-B
  • Materials, Resources, Energy and Competitiveness - OIM7019-A
  • Climate, Crisis and You - OIM4017-B
  • Principles of Responsible Management and Practice - OIM4013-B
  • Design for Circularity (DL) - OIM7041-A
  • Corporate Social Responsibility - SIB7505

Professional activities

Awards (2)

  • Finalist for the AMBA/BGA Excellence Awards 2026 in the Sustainability & CSR Initiative category, for Designing and Delivering Circular Design for the Real World Module (14 January 2026)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), awarded by Advance HE (24 February 2024)

Education (2)

  • Lund University, Sweden - M.Sc. in Information Systems
  • Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - PhD in Sustainable and Circular Product Design

Employment (5)

  • University of Bradford - Lecturer in Circular Economy and Innovation (1 September 2022)
  • Philips Research, High Tech Campus - Visiting Researcher | Design Needs Analyst | LCA | Circular Product Assessment & Experimentation (1 March 2013)
  • GreenElec EU Project - Circular Product Innovation Lead (1 May 2012)
  • Delft University of Technology - PhD Researcher | Design for Recycling of Electronic Products (1 May 2012)
  • United Nations University - WEEE Data Analyst (1 March 2012)

Publications

Book chapter (2)

  • Assessing Legislative Readiness for Renewable Energy Equipment waste: a Systematic Review of China, the EU, the US, Brazil, India and Japan

    Lillian Manning;Farzaneh Fakhredin (2025) EcoDesign 2025, Tokyo, Japan.

  • Exploring Ultrasonic Scalpels Remanufacturing in the UAE: Current Status, Challenges, and Next Steps

    Ahmed ElHetamy;Farzaneh Fakhredin (2025) EcoDesign 2025, Tokyo, Japan.

Conference publication (5)

Peer reviewed journal (1)

Thesis (1)