International Upcycling Research Network advisory board meeting 4

Slides used for the International Upcycling Research Network advisory board 4 (last one). The project is based at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

1. UKRI AHRC-funded
International Upcycling Research Network
Advisory Board Meeting 4 (05/06/2024)
PI: Dr Kyungeun Sung, De Montfort University | Co-I: Prof Richie Moalosi, University of Botswana

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Project summary
Start Now
Project date June 2022 June 2024 (project completed)
Directly incurred cost Total budget: £29,267Budget used: £29,246 (≈100%)
Objectives 2 short-term and 2
medium-to-long term
objectives
All objectives achieved
Members Bid (n=19); June 2022
(n=31)
About 60
Outputs - 1 journal article; 1 edited book; 1 contracted
edited book; 3 book chapters; 6 conference
proceedings; video resources

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Objective achievement
Objective Progress
Expand our understanding of
current upcycling research and
practices (seminars)
Seminar series: Upcycling in Africa 1&2 (September 2022);
Upcycling in Asia (October 2022); Upcycling in Americas
(November 2022); Upcycling in Australia and Europe 1&2
(January 2023) (≈20 per seminar; ≈120 total participants)
Collaborative investigation into
the global challenges for scaling
up upcycling (ISM workshops)
•Two online workshops (September 2022)
•3
rd
in-person workshop in PLATE 2023 conference (June
2023)
Develop new cross-industry,
multidisciplinary, international
collaborative research projects
and initiatives (meetings)
•Few collaboration emerged from the seminar series
•UK members’ networking event on 24 February 2023
•Online international meetings in April 2023
•Research meetings at Lund University in June 2023
Create the network website as
a long-term platform
https://iurn.our.dmu.ac.uk/
(first google search result)

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International Upcycling Festival 2024 Day 1
21 presentations with 58 international delegates at De Montfort University

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International Upcycling Festival 2024 Day 2
12workshops/events, 9 public lectures, and 10 exhibitions at LCB Depot
22 event organisers, 14 presenters, 21 exhibitors, and 106 public attendees

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Routledge edited book
Fully openaccess with UKRI Open Access Funding (£10,000)
https://www.routledge.com/Research-Journeys-to-Net-Zero-Current-
and-Future-Leaders/Sung-Isherwood-
Moalosi/p/book/9781032462097

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Bloomsbury edited book
Provisional title: Upcycling Research: Global Perspectives on Fashion,
Products, the Built Environment and the Community
Contract signed
Fully open access with UKRI Open Access Funding granted (£8,000)
24 chaptersbased on the papers submitted to the International
Upcycling Festival 2024
Expected publicationinSpring2025

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Outputs
Books
1.Sung,K.andMoalosi,R.(forthcoming2025) UpcyclingResearch:GlobalPerspectivesonFashion,Products,theBuiltEnvironmentandtheCommunity.London:Bloomsbury.
2.Sung,K.,Isherwood,P.andMoalosi,R.(2024) ResearchJourneystoNetZero:CurrentandFutureLeaders.ResearchandTeachinginEnvironmentalStudiescollection.London:Routledge.
Journal article
Sung,K.,Ku,L.,Yoon,J,andKim,C.(2023) PredictorsofUpcyclingintheHighlyIndustrialisedWest:ASurveyacrossThreeContinentsofAustralia,Europe,andNorthAmerica. Sustainability,
15(2),1461.
Book chapters
1.Sung, K. (2024)Sustainable production and consumption by upcycling towards net zero
.In: Sung, K., Isherwood, P., Moalosi, R. (eds)Research Journeys to Net Zero: Current and Future
Leaders.London: Routledge, pp 79-88.
2.Sung, K., Isherwood, P. and Moalosi, R. (2024)Introduction: Current and future leaders of net zero research and their research journeys
. In: Sung, K., Isherwood, P., Moalosi, R.
(eds)Research Journeys to Net Zero: Current and Future Leaders. London: Routledge, pp 1-7.
3.Moalosi, R., Sung, K. and Isherwood, P. (2024)Conclusion: Progress towards a net zero carbon society
. In: Sung, K., Isherwood, P., Moalosi, R. (eds)Research Journeys to Net Zero: Current
and Future Leaders.London: Routledge, pp 193-198.
Conference proceedings
1.Heaton, A., Sung, K., and Isherwood, P. (2023)Accessible Solar Energy Technology for Domestic Applications in the UK: Edge Solar
. International Conference on Engineering Design
(ICED23), Bordeaux, 24 –28 July. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 445-454. DOI:10.1017/pds.2023.45
2.Sung,K.(2023) Understanding
UpcyclingandCircularEconomyandTheirInterrelationshipsthroughLiteratureReviewforDesignEducation. InternationalConferenceonEngineering
Design(ICED23),Bordeaux,24–28July.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.pp.3721-3730. DOI:10.1017/pds.2023.373
3.Abuzeinab,A.,Sung,K.,Moalosi,R.,Satheesan,A.,Garba,B.,Adeh,F.,Lim,H.,Baek,J.,andNjeru,S.(2023) Key
globalchallengesandopportunitiesforscalingupupcyclingbusinessesin
theworld:Interpretivestructuralmodellingworkshoppreliminaryanalysis.ProductLifetimesAndTheEnvironment(PLATE)2023Conference,Espoo,31May–2June.
4.Sung,K.,Moalosi,R.,Satheesan,A.,Brosse,C.,Burton,E.,Lim,H.,Cheung,K.,Debrah,R.,Lettmann,S.,andGaukrodger-Cowan,S.(2023) Howtounderstandandteachupcyclinginthe
contextofthecirculareconomy:LiteraturereviewandfirstphaseofDelphi.ProductLifetimesAndTheEnvironment(PLATE)2023Conference,Espoo,31May–2June.
5.Moalosi,R.andSung,K.(2022) PromotingUpcyclingthroughanInternationalResearchNetwork.InternationalOnlineConferenceonReuse,Recycling,Upcycling,SustainableWaste
ManagementandCircularEconomy(ICRSC)2022. Online.9-11September.
6.Sung,K.,Hughes,P.,andHsu,J.(2022) Exploratory
multiplecasestudyonsuccessfulupcyclingbusinesses: ChopValue,FreitagandPentatonic.BritishAcademyofManagement(BAM)2022
Conference.Manchester(online),31August–2September.
Video resources: https://iurn.our.dmu.ac.uk/outcomes/

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What’s next
Last Researchfishsubmission
Final report to the funder
Impact online questionnaire with the network members and
participants/attendees of the InternationalUpcyclingFestival2024
Impact case study for REF 2029
Further fundingapplications