Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons

School of Geography and Planning

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons
School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

Rorie gained a BA (Hons) degree in Geography from the СŷÊÓÆµ of Hull. This led to an ESRC funded Masters in Planning and Environment Research and PhD at Newcastle СŷÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (2013-2018).

Research interests

Rorie Parsons is a Geographer with a research focus that is concerned with issues of sustainability and understanding social change.

His recent research pays attention to two questions: (1) how consumer practices and patterning of everyday life change when accommodating alternative packaging systems; and (2) how business practices, technologies, and markets interact in processes of change (or resistance) in respect to packaging. His work approaches these from both a historical and contemporary standpoint through a mixture of research methodologies, most notably, ethnography, archival analysis, and secondary data research.

Prior to his current role, Rorie has contributed to several major multidisciplinary projects as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, with a particular emphasis on exploring social and technical solutions to the challenges of plastics. These include Plastics: Redefining single-use (EPSRC), Many Happy Returns - Enabling reusable packaging systems (NERC), and Reducing plastic packaging and food waste through product innovation simulation (NERC). He is also currently a contributor to the Horizon Europe funded project, Business-driven systemic solutions for sustainable plastic packaging reuse schemes in mass market applications.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Hoseini M, Greenwood SC, Eman S, Mattinson P, Baird HM, Beswick-Parsons R, Fairclough JPA, Webb TL, Ryan AJ & Rothman RH (2024) . Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 209, 107815-107815. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Beswick-Parsons R, Jackson P & Evans DM (2023) . Geoforum, 145, 103844-103844. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Greenwood S, Walker S, Baird HM, Parsons R, Mehl S, Webb TL, Slark AT, Ryan AJ & Rothman RH (2021) . Sustainable Production and Consumption. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Evans DM, Parsons R, Jackson P, Greenwood S & Ryan A (2020) . Global Environmental Change, 65, 102166-102166. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mallo D, Tardiveau A & Parsons R (2020) . Architectural Research Quarterly, 24(2), 100-116. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parsons R & Vigar G (2018) . Planning Perspectives, 33(2), 163-183. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parsons R () . British Food Journal. RIS download Bibtex download