I am a member of the Department of Management Science's Simulation Research Group and Information Systems Research Group. In addition, I am an Affiliate Member of the multidisciplinary Data Science Institute. My research revolves around the broad theme of Complex Systems Analysis. At present, I have particular interest in two main areas around: Operational Research of Health and Illness, using both hard and soft OR approaches; and Computational Social Systems, where emphasis is currently applied to the use of computational, mathematical and statistical approaches to understand how to harness the complexity that arises in large multi-vendor Enterprise Systems implementations.

I am willing to supervise PhD students who have research interests around either 1) complexity within large Enterprise Systems implementations, or 2) how digital technology can be used within health and illness. The first research area can be tackled either from the perspective of the complex social interactions within the organisational structure of the project/programme, or from the perspective of the complexity arising from the technology itself. The second research area spans the wider topic of digital health, but I am specifically interested in how operational research techniques can be leveraged to assist us in understanding how disease and illness is developed at the cellular level, the human level, or propagated through a population.

• 2013 +           Lecturer in Management Science, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University
• 2013 - 2015    SAMS-ESRC-UKCES Management and Business Development Fellow, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University
• 2004 - 2009    Project Manager (Consultant), Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
• 2001 - 2004    Applications Consultant (Programmer), Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
• 1999 - 2000    Associate Consultant, Cambridge Professional Development Ltd

I'm currently the Department of Management Science's representative on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (FASS/LUMS), a member of the Business Analytics and Consultancy Degree Task Force, and a member of the Pendle College Advisor Team (PCAT).

I have previously been the Early Career Representative on the University Research Committee (2014-15), and the Director of Part I Undergraduate Studies in Management Science (2015-16).

MSCI105 Project Challenge (aka Project Event Management)

MSCI251 Project Management Tools and Techniques

MSCI390 Business Analytics & Consultancy Consolidation Project (Final Year Capstone)

FMBA508 Digital Innovation in Business

I have academic qualifications within the fields of Biochemistry (BSc Wales, MPhil Cambridge), Computational Biology (MRes York), Computer Science (MSc Kent, PhD York), and Higher Education (PGCertAP Lancaster). In addition I have a number of professional certifications and registrations, including: Chartered Professional Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS CITP), Chartered Professional Member of the Royal Society of Biology (CBiol MRSB), Project Management Professional of the Project Management Institute (PMP), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I have secured the following grant income: