MOST Staff

The main research interests of MOST staff are indicated below:

Paul Braiden - Emeritus Professor

Complex systems in manufacturing and design and business processes

Mike Cox - Lecturer in Applicable Mathematics

Multidimensional scaling (MDS)
Statistical process control (SPC)
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

Oliver Heidrich - Lecturer in Waste Management

Industrial ecology and the sustainable management of businesses
Industrial and municipal solid waste management systems
Life cycle assessment
Standardised business management systems (e.g.ISO 9001, 14001)
Business psychology (the human factor on management systems)

Chris Hicks - Professor of Operations Management

Operations research and managment
Manufacturing systems
Planning and control
Layout
Simulation
Optimisation
Supply chain management
Information technology
Make/engineer-to-order companies
Lean manufacturing
Agile manufacturing;

Pushkar Jha - Lecturer in Strategy

Learning from strategic experiences
Project based organisational learning
Design contests
Mergers and acquisitions (specifically: post merger integration)

Edward Lugsden - Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Human resource practices in the National Health Service

Tom McGovern - Lecturer in Business Strategy

Supply chain management
Knowledge management
Capital goods and project-based industries
Company decline and failure and turnaround strategies
The role of change agents
Implementing Lean

Steve Procter - Alcan Chair of Management and Director of Research

Technological change
New patterns of work
New forms of organisation
Teamworking

Tracy Scurry - Lecturer in Management

Graduate careers, in particular 'non-traditional' graduate employment
Issues of trust and identity in new forms of working practices

Andrew Simpson - Senior Lecturer in Management

Applied Bayesian statistical modelling. In particular the application of these techniques to financial time series and the subsequent derivation of efficient portfolios through decision theoretic approaches.

Kasia Zdunczyk - Lecturer in Management

Organisational learning and knowledge
Inter-organisational collaboration