Dr Savita Verma
Visiting ResearcherResearch Overview
Savita is a Research Associate in the Department of Management Science working on the Plastic Packaging in Peoples’ Lives (PPiPL) project. Her research focuses on how individuals (employees and consumers) perceive sustainability and how attitudes affect their motivation and particular behaviours such as green and pro-environmental behaviour. Her research employs various qualitative methods that are in-depth and focused on how they can make a difference to the world.
As part of professional development, Savita has presented at several reputable conferences in the discipline of operations and supply chain management such as European operations management association (EurOMA), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), British Academy of Management (BAM), etc. and contributed as a chair to some of the sessions. She has also played a reviewer role in refereed conferences like the Academy of Management, British Academy of Management, and European Operations Management Association.
Her research interest lies in the following topics:
- Supply chain management thinking and practices toward sustainable development;
- Drivers, antecedents, and mechanisms affecting individual behaviours, sustainable supply chain management and firms environmental behaviours;
- Reducing plastic packaging in food supply chains;
- Reverse, sustainable logistics and circular economy solutions.
Panel Discussion: Packaging Today
Invited talk
UKSS International Conference 2023
Participation in conference - Academic
BPF Sustainability and Plastics 2023: Weighing social responses to the challenges of waste plastics
Invited talk
Advancing Plastic Waste Reduction in Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Stakeholder Perspective
Invited talk
Panel Discussion: Plastics Sustainability: myth busting and the human factor
Invited talk
Futures work at Lancaster University no.2: The little book of plastics in everyday life
Invited talk
The future of recycling
Invited talk
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Perspectives on the Consumer Attitude-Behaviour Gap
Oral presentation
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Perspectives on the Consumer Attitude-Behaviour Gap
Invited talk
Plastic packaging in People's Lives (PPiPL): From farm to fork and beyond?
Invited talk
PPiPL: Valuing the afterlives of materials
Invited talk
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Reflections on Engaged Academic Research
Invited talk
LUMS What Matters Now
Other
Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Oral presentation
Responsibility and Plastic Packaging: Exploring the issues for the packaging supply chain
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Exploring the nature and antecedents of employee green behaviours in a supply chain context
Invited talk
- Centre for Consumption Insights
- Pentland Centre