Dr Lucy J Wishart
Lecturer
Biography
Lucy is the Director of Teaching in Management.
She joined the School of Management in 2011 as a PhD student and became a member of staff in 2016. She is a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Ethics and is currently a visiting researcher at the Pentland Centre for Sustainable Business at Lancaster University.
Her PhD in Management is entitled A Resourceful Application: Understanding the Scottish Zero Waste Project in 2015. She has an MSc in Sustainablity Science and Environmental Studies from the University of Lund in Sweden and an LLB in Law and Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
Lucy has advisory experience working with private enterprise, NGOs and government on sustainability and the circular economy. As well as publishing in interdisciplinary journals and The Conversation, her work has also featured in industry publications including The Circular.
Lucy is a member of the University's Sustainability in the Curriculum group.
Teaching
2023/24
MN5001: Contemporary Global Issues in Management
MN4100: Contemporary Issues in Management
Research areas
My research explores how relationships between knowledge and practice determine the management of waste in sustainable futures, with an emphasis on governing activities occurring within and between organisations.
I am interested how reuse is seen as part of a systemic transition towards a more circular economy. I explore how organisational practices support and/or undermine reuse within society, both materially (e.g. infrastructure) and symbolically (e.g. stigma). My research reconceptualises reuse beyond individual practice, extending the roles of organisations in addressing waste as a systemic sustainability problem.
I am interested in supervising PhDs on the following topics:
- Reuse (in the Circular Economy)
- Organisation responsibilities for waste
- Zero Waste
PhD supervision
- Anqi Li
Selected publications
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Accounting for circularity
Wishart, L. J. & Antheaume, N., 31 Mar 2021, Routledge handbook of environmental accounting. Bebbington, J., Larrinaga, C., O'Dwyer, B. & Thomson, I. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 251-262 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Amazon found destroying unsold stock – would better accounting practices help?
Wishart, L. J., 28 Jun 2021, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Open access
Circular Economy Infrastructure: why we need track and trace for reusable packaging
Ellsworth-Krebs, K., Rampen, C., Rogers, E., Dudley, L. & Wishart, L., 13 Oct 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Sustainable Production and Consumption.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Zero waste governance: a Scottish case study
Wishart, L. J. & Bebbington, J., 18 Dec 2020, In: International Journal of Sustainable Development. 23, 1-2, p. 128 147 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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More Than Just Recycling. How Does the Goal of Zero Waste Impact Upon Ways of Thinking About Governance in Scotland?
Wishart, L. J., 28 Mar 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Negotiating Knowledge through Boundary Organisations in Environmental Policy
Moran, C., Russell, S. L. & Wishart, L. J., 2016, Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations. New York, London: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Recycling and Extended Producer Responsibility: The European Experience
Wishart, L. J., 1 Dec 2016, In: Europe Now.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Zero Waste in Scotland: A Sustainable Goal or A Rubbish Idea
Wishart, L. J., 25 Jun 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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Material Recovery from Complex Systems: Understanding Zero Waste from a Governmentality Perspective
Wishart, L. J., 10 Jul 2014.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review