Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Business School
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Tel: 01227 782764
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Campus: Canterbury
Biography
Bob has a BSc in Engineering, a postgraduate diploma in Management Studies and an MBA. He has a background in engineering, publishing and management development. He worked for a number of years as an Industrial Engineer improving process efficiencies before moving into management training in a blue chip company. In this role he developed in-house programmes which gained accreditation from a national awarding body.
He then moved into the education sector as Senior Lecturer teaching on college based programmes (HND to post graduate levels) and developing and running programmes for client organisations.
As a development consultant with a major publishing company he project managed the commissioning, editing and testing of a range of management training resources (paper based and on-line).
In 2002 Bob was appointed senior lecturer in the Business School, where he has taught on a range of graduate and post graduate programmes, focusing on operations, project management and information management.
From 1997 onwards he has been an External Verifier for the Institute for Leadership and Management, helping to ensure regional standards are maintained for programmes ranging from Team Leader to Senior Manager.
Teaching and Academic Interests
Bob teaches Project Management, Operations Management, Managing Information and Graduate Skills.
His research interests include Operations and Project Management
Subject Group
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Decision Making
Publications, Working Papers and Conference Papers
Conference Review of the Converteam Global Project Managers Conference. July 2007. A review of the topics covered, delegates reaction and possible future developments. Internal company report.
June 2007 "Project Management – an academic viewpoint" Converteam Global Project Managers Conference, Paris, France. The conference was focused on developing a global / international project management approach for this global electrical engineering company.
Consultancy Interests
1985 – 1988 Project Management consultancy and training development for British Caledonian Airways
1992 / 3 Project Management consultancy and training development for British Aerospace
1992 – 1995 Management training and development for Nuclear Electric
2006 – 2008 Transqual Project. Trans European (EU Leonardo da Vinci) project to identify training and development needs in the logistics sector. The outcome being the development and trial of innovative training packages for specific job roles in eight EU countries.
2008 Development Centres for client organisations in conjunction with the CLDB