Biography 

Visiting Fellow.

Dr Dharm Kapletia is an established senior researcher, manager and consultant, with over 15 years’ experience across a range of innovation projects, working at the nexus of government, industry and academia. His career has specialised in complex systems, delivering research and insights to advance solutions (technologies, managerial tools, policy) in defence, healthcare, sustainability and farming. Dharm is now investigating actions required by business to address the nature crisis. He has led the development of successful research proposals in the EU and UK.

Dharm's current interests span: working with nature; environment and biodiversity; regenerative and biodynamic farming; transdisciplinary innovation; wicked problems (economic, environmental, political/security).

Research areas
  • Regenerative Agriculture and Aquaculture

  • Business Models and Sustainability

  • Innovation and Technology Management

  • Systems Thinking and Complex Systems

Professional memberships

Fellow of The Schumacher Institute

 

Publications
  • Kapletia, D., Cerca, M., Klinkenbergh, O., Crowe, D., Blikra, M.J., Rode, TM., Chapman, A., Gjerstad, M., O’Connor, N., Murphy, G., Fletcher, I., Ruddy, A. (2025) Policy White Paper and Roadmap for Ocean Mission actions, EU Ocean Mission C-FAARER Project
  • Blikra, M. J., Rode, T. M., Chapman, A., Gjerstad, M., Skipnes, D., Gallagher, D., Klinkenbergh, O., Finne, D., Govaerts, F., Kechasov, D., & Kapletia, D. (2024). NSA Cluster Insights Report - Valorisation of the regenerative aquaculture products. EU Mission Ocean C-FAARER Project
  • Uzuegbunam, I., Kapletia, D., Ituma, A. (2024) Historical shocks and community-based enterprises: the slave trades, family dynamics, and social entrepreneurship in Africa. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
  • O’Connor, N., Gallagher, D., Kapletia, D. (2024) C-FAARER Project Findings, Seagriculture EU 14th International Seaweed Conference, held in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
  • Kapletia, D., Rhodes, ML., Chapman, A. (2024) Conceptual framework for regenerative ocean farming, EU Mission Ocean C-FAARER Project
  • Roderick, I., Kapletia, D., Naidu, R. (2023) Whatever Next: Risk Review – UK2030, The Schumacher Institute and Seeding our Future
  • Kapletia, D., & Phillips, W. (2023) Characterizing Redistributed Manufacturing in healthcare through the lens of transdisciplinary innovation. Invited for World Scientific publication titled: “Healthcare Innovation; Shaping future models of delivery”. (Book Chapter)
  • Phillips, W., Roehrich, J., & Kapletia, D., Alexander, E. (2022) Healthcare value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production, submitted to a Special Issue on “The future of value chains in a post-pandemic world” in California Management Review
  • Fosso Wamba, S., Queirroz, M.M., Roscoe, S., Phillips, W., Kapletia, D., Azadegan, A. (2021) Guest Editors for Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Emergency Situations. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 41 No. 9, pp. 1405-1416
  • Phillips, W., Roehrich, J., & Kapletia, D. (2021) Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of COVID-19. Public Management Review
  • Srai, J.S., Graham, G., Hennelly, P., Phillips, W., Kapletia, D., Lorentz, H. (2020) Distributed Manufacturing: A new form of localized production? International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 40 Issue 6, pp 697-727