Dr Stephen Spooner
Stephen is a Senior Research Officer at Swansea University. Previously Stephen worked in the areas of liquid metal processing and sustainable manufacturing at the University of Warwick, ranging from projects investigating the fundamentals of interfacial phenomena between liquid steel and slag, to the macroscopic material flows of steel through life cycle as an enabler for decarbonisation within the UK.
Stephen now works on projects quantifying objective sustainability. This includes the SUSTAIN funded ECR project “SIAM: Sustainable Investment Assurance Model”, which intends to pull together aspects of sustainability, including core environmental aspects of emissions and waste, along with economic, competition, engagement, and education branches of sustainability. The project aims to bring the steel industry to the forefront of driving the understanding of true sustainability, implementing the ideas of SMART goals to push back against the green washing of poorly regulated PR and political activities. Initial applications of the model will investigate the potential of circular steel manufacturing/steel as a service, and high value end-of-life material processing.
Stephen is actively looking for partners interested in measured sustainability, circular economy, and regional synergistic manufacturing.