Supply Chain Excellence Centre

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Find out about our academics and their expertise.

Professor Behzad Hezarkhani

Professor in Operations Management

Research interests

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics and Transportation
  • Mechanism Design and Contracting

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Denise Baden

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Communicating sustainable solutions via fiction
  • Sustainable hairdressing
  • Climate Communication
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Professor Enrico Gerding

Professor

Research interests

  • artificial intelligence
  • autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • algorithmics game theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Fanzhuo Zeng PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • procurement management
  • platform operations
  • sustainable supply chain management

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Gary Wills PhD, CEng, FHEA, MIET

Research interests

  • Internet of Things (IoT),
  • Data Protection,
  • Information Assurance,
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Dr Hao Dong PhD, MRes

Senior Lecturer in Management

Research interests

  • Agile project management
  • Digital transformation & AI
  • Cultural entrepreneurship and their supply chains

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Michelle Newberry BSc Hons, MSc, PGCHE, FHEA, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Motivations for criminal behaviour
  • Violent offending (murder, intimate partner violence and animal cruelty)
  • Poaching and the illegal wildlife trade 

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Dr Patrick Beullens

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Ocean shipping - decisions under risk, environmental performance
  • Retail supply chains - perishable products, food waste management
  • Logistics and reverse logistics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Pingli Li

Head of Department-Accounting

Research interests

  • Performance measurement and management in public hospitals
  • Sustainability reporting
  • The evolving roles of accountants

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Qin Zhou

Lecturer in Operations Management

Research interests

  • Applications: Operations Management: closed-loop supply chain management, production outsourcing, remanufacturing management (authorization and outsourcing), technology innovation, Nash bargaining, contract design.Marketing-Operations Management Interface: trade-in, strategic consumers behaviour, fairness concerns, anticipated regret.Marine Policy: clean technology innovation, abatement decision. Methodologies: Game theory, optimization.

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