Dr Ben Purvis
Management School
Research Associate in Decision Support Systems for a Circular Economy
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Management School
E006
Western Bank Villa
300-302 Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Profile
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Ben joined the Management School in April 2022 as a fixed term researcher on the Horizon 2020 funded Just Transition to a Circular Economy (JUST2CE) project. Within JUST2CE, Ben is tasked with scoping and developing a Decision Support System to allow relevant stakeholders to envision pathways to more equitable and sustainable practices.
Ben's work is strongly informed by interdisciplinarity and a critical stance to normative assumptions. This has been informed by a trajectory from an undergraduate education in theoretical physics, through immersion in a cross-disciplinary research group examining 'urban sustainability', and the influence of Science and Technology Studies.
Outside his research interests, Ben is an active member of the º£½ÇÉçÇø and College Union (UCU), having served as a departmental rep, anticasualisation officer, communications officer. Ben has also previously served on the LGBT+ Staff Network Committee and SSoA's Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
- Qualifications
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- PhD - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Nottingham, Laboratory for Urban Complexity and Sustainability
- MSci Physics with Theoretical Physics - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Nottingham
- Research interests
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Ben's work to date has primarily focused on the use of socioeconomic simulation within the climate change mitigation and sustainability discourses, with a particular interest in translation of concepts and methodologies across scale. This has been spurred by a desire to examine how far existing paradigms can be deployed to envision radical futures. This spans a number of areas and disciplines including ecological economies, sustainability science, science and technology studies, system dynamics modelling, decision support and integrated assessment.
Adjacent to this work, they also have a keen interest in academic structures and the nature of fields and disciplines, collaborative practices, precarity within the neoliberal university, and critical and liberatory discourses including queer and decolonial theory.
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- Research group
- Teaching interests
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Ben has previously delivered guest lectures on Climate Change on the SSoA module ARC6843: Building Physics for Sustainable Design, as well as on the module 'Comparative Sustainability Theory and Practice for Geodesign' at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Southern California.
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