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We are delighted to share that Dr Dicle Kortantamer, our Lecturer in Project Management, has been appointed as Associate Editor for the journal Project Leadership and Society. Project Leadership and Society (PLAS) is an open access journal published in collaboration with the International Project Management Association (IPMA). As a sister open access journal of the International Journal...
We had the pleasure of hosting a visit by Professor Khalid Al Marri recently. Prof Al Marri is the Dean of Research and Head of Partnerships at the British University in Dubai (BUiD). Following the visit of an LCP delegation to BUiD earlier this year, we took the opportunity to continue our discussions on the...
Last week, the Leeds Centre for Projects moved to a new home and we are very excited about it! For the last few years, the members of the LCP were distributed across different floors and the PhD researchers were in various offices across the School of Civil Engineering. However, now we had the opportunity to...
We were delighted to host our first Flagship in Residence event this week. The In Residence event brings together the key actors in our knowledge ecosystem, i.e. academics, students, practitioners, postgraduate researchers, alumni and professional bodies to shape projects for sustainable futures. It was a day full of vibrant discussions, co-production and sharing of knowledge,...
Dr Dicle Kortantamer wins Best Reviewer Award 2024 Our colleague Dicle Kortantamer has just received the Best Reviewer Award 2024 for the journal Project Leadership and Society. The award honours the excellent constructive and timely reviews provided for the journal in 2023. Dicle comments on this award: ”I had the privilege of reviewing very insightful...
Our Director Prof Christine Unterhitzenberger recently visited Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa to build interdisciplinary research collaboration. The visit was funded by the University of Leeds’ Horizon Institute Global Academy Crucible Programme. Read her reflections on this visit below. It was my first time in South Africa, so I also took the opportunity to...
A delegation of the Leeds Centre for Projects recently visited the British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE, marking a significant step towards fostering collaboration between the two institutions. BUiD is a leading research-intensive university in the Arab Region. It is ranked 1st for papers per member of staff and 3rd for citations per paper by...
The Leeds Centre for Projects was proud to host the 2nd joint Student Industry Conference between University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University in the field of project and construction management on 18 June 2024. The event was attended by over 20 project and construction management companies, professional bodies (CIOB, APM and CABE), over 90...
The Leeds Centre for Projects (LCP) is delighted to have two winners in this year's prestigious Association for Project Management (APM) Education and Research Awards. Research Paper of the Year Dr Rodrigo Juarez, Lecturer in Project Management, won the Research Paper of the Year award. His paper entitled "Digging in the megaproject's graveyard: Why to...
Dr Luca Sabini, Associate Professor in Project Management, visited ESG UQAM (School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal) in Canada on the 29th and 30th of May 2024. He was invited by Marie-Pierre Leroux from the Chair of Project Management at the School of Management, UQAM. During his visit, Luca presented his research on...