How can we use projects to achieve a better future? We are interested in project leadership in emerging industries, questions of resilience and complexity, the role of projects as interventions and how they address uncertainty, emergence and stakeholders.
This interest includes work on net-zero and new forms of energy; and wider questions of humanitarian engineering, societal connections and environmental impact.
Our work draws on expertise across the University of Sydney, including civil and humanitarian engineering, disasters and complex systems, and internationally.
Research

Organizational Factors Influencing the Sustainability Performance of Construction Organizations
Sustainability | August 2022

Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal | October, 2021

Collecting experimental network data from interventions on critical links in workplace networks
Social Networks | July, 2021

Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities
Social Networks | May, 2021

Forget opinion leaders: the role of social network brokers in the adoption of innovative farming practices in North-western Cambodia
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability | June, 2020

Metro infrastructure planning in Amsterdam: how are social issues managed in the absence of environmental and social impact assessment?
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal | March, 2020

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Project Management: The Past, Present and Future
The Journal of Modern Project Management | January, 2020

Limitations of Technical Approaches to Transport Planning Practice in Two Cases: Social Issues as a Critical Component of Urban Projects
Planning Theory & Practice | December, 2019

External exposure, boundary-spanning, and opinion leadership in remote communities: A network experiment
Social Networks | January, 2019

An Identity Work Framework for Community Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Development
Academy of Management Proceedings | July, 2022
Experts

Dr Daphne Freeder