Personal Statement
I am Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management with significant and varied experiences in research, teaching, leadership and knowledge exchange. I have published over sixty journal articles and one book, and been awarded over £4M of direct research and knowledge exchange funding. My current position, which I have held since September 2018, is Head of the Operations & Supply Chain Management (OSCM) Subject Group. The Group has a fast-growing reputation for innovative and world-leading research. The ambition is for our research to drive and support business competitiveness, environmental health and social wellbeing by making original contributions to the theory and practice of operations and supply chain management. We lead the School's Centre for Supply Chain Research (CSCR) (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/management/research/centres/cscr/) and three of its largest and most-established MSc programmes in Operations & Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics & Big Data, and Project Management, in addition to a new MSc programme in AI for Digital Business.

I am a member of the School Management Committee and former member University Senate. I was Interim Head of the Marketing Subject Group from September 2018 to May 2020, and Head of the Marketing & Operations Subject Group from September 2017 to August 2018.

Research Overview
Through the Centre for Supply Chain Research (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/management/research/centres/cscr/), OSCM research coalesces around five specific themes: transport and logistics; agri-food supply chains; sustainable supply chains; agile operations; supply chain technologies, analytics and risk. The group has a consistent 25-strong cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows, PhD students and funded PDRAs, and established research alliances with academics and centres of excellence in Cambridge, Dalian Maritime, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Michigan State, Tianjin, Valencia and Zhejiang universities.

My own expertise and research interests are broadly in the area operations and supply chain management and design. This includes supply strategy and the design of supply chain performance measurement systems, the scrutiny of supply chain practices through innovative mapping and modelling techniques, the examination of the effectiveness of lean practices, digital strategy development and analytics to support growth in SMEs, and the examination of mass customisation and variety management challenges. I have published over 60 articles and Customer-Driven Supply Chains, a book published in 2012. I am visiting professor at the University of Valencia, a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT) and have been a member of the organising committee for several international conferences. I have supervised over 20 PhD students.

Recent, externally-funded, and prominent research concerns an EC Interreg-funded project looking to reduce the environmental footprint of seafood supply chains, a NERC-funded project on the business model and sustainability implications of improving the circularity of plastic packaging, an H2020-funded project on the integration of local and global food supply chains, and an ERDF-funded project on the introduction of industry 4.0 technologies to SMEs. In addition, I have led major research and knowledge exchange projects funded by the EPSRC, EC FP7, EC H2020. ERDF, TSB, BEIS, Innovate UK, the Royal Society and the UK Ministry of Defence.