SCArCITY RA Internship - Metrics for evaluating circular business model (CBM) performance in cascaded textile system.

The past couple of weeks has been both challenging and of utmost interest for me. After understanding the topic, finding literatures, screening through hundreds of article an finalizing them it was the time to actually get down to the synthesis and analysis part. Lesrning to do a critical literature review, where I interpreted the existing CE and CBM literature through cascading lens, making connection to the CE indicators framework, finding the gaps, seeing how the study has grown overtime and developingg for almost an completely new topic. I am going to discuss the process in the blog!

The first step was I had 3 different workspace. One for the core papers which were Sirkin and Houten core cascading principles, cascading in textiles literature review, CE and cascading in textiles plus 4 more papers which I read really deeply and made my sheet in the first month. Now it was time for synthesis of articles through the lens of these principles in the excel sheet with my critical reflection added for each paper. And I had another document with the indicator literature (it was added in excel too). This was done for almost 40 articles and during this process the recurring themes started taking root in my head as I worked. 

At this stage in my work I have a rough analysis made, connecting and cross analysing the excel file. I assume that the final detailed analysis which would naturally lead me KPI framework (which is super rough draft now) is the challenging part in the upcoming weeks.My next step for the weeks is deep diving into the analysis and to start writing the paper. Today is the day I plan on starting the report writing as suggested my my supervisor as well. I feel confident in starting now at this stage where I already made the rough draft of what we are looking at. 

Overall the past weeks have been really productive and interesting. I met with my supervisor yesterday with my data, thoughts and questions and planning to do my first draft this week. I am hopeful to contribute the best I can to the SCArCITY project and a bit nervous too.

Sangavi