Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Executive Programmes

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Management Science with Computing (University of Kent)
MBA with Distinction (University of Newcastle)
PhD in Statistics (University of Newcastle)

Memberships

1999, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Research Interests

My PhD research was on Applied Bayesian modelling. In particular the application of these techniques to financial time series and the subsequent derivation of efficient portfolios, through decision theoretic approaches.

My recent research has been in two areas. I am interested in the application of forecasting techniques within supply chains. In particular military spare parts supply chains, where the intermittent and low volumes of demand make forecasting complicated.

I am also interested in Lean within public sector contexts and how this is applied and the difficulties faced when trying to implement lean solutions. 

Postgraduate Teaching

• Managing Information (Executive MBA)
• Managing Information (Full Time MBA)
• Management Consultancy (Exec MBA)
• Management Consultancy (FT MBA) 
• Business Decision Making (Masters Elective)
• Masters Research Methods teaching

• Strategy and Operations Management (Stage 2 UG)
• Advanced Strategy and Operations Management (Stage 3 UG) 

•  Management Consultancy at Monash University, Australia

• Murphy M, Simpson A. A Uniform Success? Implementation of Lean in the UK Public Sector. In: Seventeenth International Working Seminar on Production Economics. 2012, Innsbruck, Austria: Elsevier.
• Wicks S, Simpson A, Hicks C. An evaluation of the success of the UK Ministry of Defence Lean Service Initiative. In: International Journal of Production Economics: 17th International Working Seminar on Production Economics. 2012, Innsbruck, Austria: Elsevier BV. In Press.
• Moon S, Simpson A, Hicks C. The Development of a Classification Model for Predicting the Performance of Forecasting Methods for Naval Spare Parts Demand. International Journal of Production Econonomics 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Moon S, Hicks C, Simpson A. The development of a hierarchical forecasting method for predicting spare parts demand in the South Korean Navy - A case study. International Journal of Production Economics 2012, In press - corrected proof. In Press.
• Moon S, Simpson A, Hicks C. The development of a classification model for predicting the performance of forecasting methods for naval spare parts demand.. In: 16th International Symposium on Inventories.2010,Budapest, Hungary
• Moon S, Hicks C, Simpson A. The development of a hierarchical forecasting method for predicting spare parts demand in the South Korean Navy. In: Sixteenth International Working Seminar on Production Economics. 2010, Innsbruck, Austria.
• Fowler A, Samuel J, Simpson A. Knowledge into Practice in air traffic control systems. In: British Academy of Management Annual Conference. 2003, Harrogate, UK.
• Simpson A, Wilkinson DJ. Computationally Intensive Techniques for a Fully Bayesian, Decision Theoretic Approach to Financial Forecasting and Portfolio Selection. Computing Science and Statistics 2002, 33, 472-483.