News and Events

Leading Complex Projects Sprint

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership has partnered with Sydney Executive Plus, a strategic initiative of the Business School, to deliver the Leading Complex Projects sprint. The inaugural cohort …

Meet our research interns who will be developing digital solutions to real-world industry problems

Our Digital Transformation research theme will be hosting three of the University’s brightest students as interns who will be working to develop our research in Expert-AI collaboration for decision-making in …

Using websites and social media to support local community stakeholder attendance at project town hall meetings

Project Leadership and Society | December, 2024

A Natural Language Processing–Driven Framework for Policymaking in Infrastructure Development

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management | February, 2025

Online naturalistic inquiry for stakeholder issue analysis: Design and implementation

Project Leadership and Society | December, 2024

RecoMap – a semi-automated tool for analysing railway accident recommendations across jurisdictions and over time

Transportation Planning and Technology | December, 2024

Research Collaboration Strategy and Showcase

On Wednesday 6 November 2024, the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership held a Research Collaboration Strategy and Showcase where we had over 30 academics from across the University of …

Sponsoring digitally-enabled transformation in Government

IIndustry Partner: Digital NSW | Authors: Natalie Smith, Suresh Cuganesan, Mark Howard and Jessica Ho | August, 2024

Major Projects Leadership Forum – Reform Roadmap

We are pleased to launch our Major Projects Leadership Forum – Reform Roadmap at an online event on Tuesday 20 August 2024 from 4pm – 5pm. The session consisted of …

AI for Management and Organization Research: Examples and Reflections from Project Studies

Project Management Journal | July, 2024

A data-driven conceptual framework for understanding the nature of hazards in railway accidents

Transport Policy | June, 2024

Modeling an on-demand meal delivery system with human couriers and autonomous vehicles in a spatial market

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies | June, 2024

Researcher in Spotlight: Dr Natalie Smith | May

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s monthly ‘Researcher in Spotlight’ piece aims to highlight the bright minds that make up our organisation and to showcase the diverse range of …

Researcher in Spotlight: Dr Wei Ting (Kevin) Hong | April

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s monthly ‘Researcher in Spotlight’ piece aims to highlight the bright minds that make up our organisation and to showcase the diverse range of …

Project Models and Digital Transformation Workshop

On Tuesday 9 April 2024, Dr Jinman Kim and Dr Wei-Ting Hong of our Project Models and Digital Transformation Theme held a workshop to connect with other University of Sydney …

Researcher in Spotlight: Dr Lara Mottee | March

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s monthly ‘Researcher in Spotlight’ piece aims to highlight the bright minds that make up our organisation and showcasing the diverse range of experts …

2024 Newsletters | First Quarter

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Artful Argument Launch: Poor project sponsorship is a greater threat than poor project management

On Thursday 22 February 2024, the Artful Argument series was relaunched for the year with the first session centred around discussing the prompt that ‘Poor project sponsorship is a greater …

Researcher in Spotlight: Dr Aaron Opdyke | February

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s monthly ‘Researcher in Spotlight’ piece aims to highlight the bright minds that make up our organisation and showcasing the diverse range of experts …

Internship Experience: Muhammad Faiz Aji Prakoso

  For 8 weeks, from December 2023 to early February 2024, the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership (JGIPL) hosted Muhammad Faiz Aji Prakoso Prakoso as a research intern. Faiz …

Researcher in Spotlight: Associate Professor Krithika Randhawa | January

  The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s monthly ‘Researcher in Spotlight’ piece aims to highlight the bright minds that make up our organisation and showcasing the diverse range of …

An AI-Enabled Community Safety Service: Stakeholder Benefits and Vulnerabilities

Asics 2023 Proceedings | November. 2023

2023 Newsletters | Fourth Quarter

  Our fourth and final quarterly newsletter of 2023 has been released! Click here to download      

Digital project capabilities and innovation: insights from the emerging use of platforms in construction

Handbook on Innovation and Project Management | October, 2023

Building Information Modelling (BIM) Seoul Workshop at Yonsei University

19 October 2023 On Thursday 1 June, we held our second Building Information Modelling (BIM) workshop. Organised in collaboration with Professor Ghang Lee from Yonsei University, the goal of these workshops …

Stakeholder engagement variability across public, private and public-private partnership projects: A data-driven network-based analysis

The Journal of Modern Project Management | May, 2020

Managing project-to-project interfaces for large-scale programmes: A network study in world expo 2020

International Journal of Project Management | February. 2023

Martina Huemann: The Power of Projects to Create a Better Future

the challenges and opportunities of delivering infrastructure.

Tim Broyd: Innovation and the Search for Low Carbon Buildings and Infrastructure

Professor Tim Broyd, founding director of University College London’s Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, presented insights from research into how the construction industry should approach climate change.

Mark Dodgson AO: Innovation in Professional Services Firms

The University of Queensland and Imperial College London’s Professor Mark Dodgson AO visited to share his expertise on Innovation in Professional Services Firms.

Dr Marzena Baker receives JCEM Best Paper Award

Dr Marzena Baker and her co-authors have received the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 2022 Best Paper Award for their publication “Leadership Diversity and Its Influence on Equality Initiatives and Performance: Insights for Construction Management”.

Professor Stewart Clegg receives AISWN Best Paper Award

Professor Stewart Clegg and his co-authors have received the Association for Information Systems Network College Best Paper Award for their publication “Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of IT Monitoring as Complex Action Nets” in Organization Science Journal.

Call for Papers – 9th International Megaprojects ‘Theory Meets Practice’ Workshop

As the purpose of megaprojects widens towards the production of “socially valuable outcomes”, projects become instruments not only of production of economic returns to be captured by the capital investors based on user willingness to pay, but also instruments of distribution of value to be appropriated by non-users.

Call for Papers – Special Collection: Project Leadership in a Changing World

As we face a changing world, we need to think differently about projects and their leadership. This special collection titled “Project Leadership in a Changing World” is an opportunity to examine the perspectives on leadership that are important to positively intervening in a changing world.

Collecting experimental network data from interventions on critical links in workplace networks

International Journal of Project Management | October, 2022

Anna Kadefors: Collaboration and Contracts in Projects

The Faculty of Engineering’s Distinguished Lecture Series continued with the School of Project Management welcoming Professor Anna Kadefors from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Professor Nuno Gil arrives on sabbatical

Mr Gill is a Professor of New Infrastructure Development at the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School and will continue his research on the design of structures and processes to create economic and social value.

An Identity Work Framework for Community Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Development

Academy of Management Proceedings | July, 2022

Power relations in the finance of infrastructure public-private partnership projects

International Journal of Project Management | October, 2022

The dynamics of systems integration: Balancing stability and change on London’s Crossrail project

International Journal of Project Management | August, 2022

Marina van der Walt: Trends and Insights and Associated Reforms for NSW Infrastructure Projects

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s Infrastructure in a Changing World talks series continued on Wednesday August 24 with the visit of Head of Assurance at Infrastructure New South Wales, Marina Van Der Walt.

Organizational Factors Influencing the Sustainability Performance of Construction Organizations

Sustainability | August 2022

Identifying leverage points in climate change migration systems through expert mental models

Sustainability | August 2022

Decision-making factor interactions influencing climate migration: A systems-based systematic review

Sustainability | August 2022

Industrial decarbonisation expert Nashwan Dawood visits SoPM

Professor Dawood discussed the university’s decarbonisation agenda and his expertise in sustainable infrastructure, carbon reduction in construction, housing and engineering.

Projects as Interventions in Infrastructure Systems

On 21 June 2022, the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College London and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership at the University of Sydney co-hosted a workshop on the need to see projects as interventions in wider systems, and the implications of such a mindset shift.

School of Project Management retreat

On Thursday 23 June the School of Project Management and John Grill Institute for Project Leadership undertook a school retreat.

The day was used to reflect on the needs of students and staff and develop a strategic future plan.

Making futures that matter? Three things managers can do to make better futures, when working online

As video conferencing becomes more central to work in organisations, managers need to improve the quality of discussions to make futures that matter. Doing so online is more difficult to organise and vulnerable to excluding relevant expertise.

Professor Stewart Clegg wins Best Book Award at EURAM 2022

The School of Project Management and John Grill Institute for Project Leadership’s Professor Stewart Clegg has been honoured at the European Academy of Management 2022 conference in Winterthur, Switzerland.

2022 International Symposium: Call for Submissions

The John Grill Institute for Project Leadership at the University of Sydney’s School of Project Management is calling for submissions for our November 2022 online symposium on ‘Project Leadership in a Changing World’.

The influence of technical assistance and funding on perceptions of post-disaster housing safety after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes in Nepal

Sustainability | August 2022

The Ten Differences Between Programs and Projects, and the Problems They Cause

Engineering Management Journal | April, 2022

Profile: Julien Pollack  

Associate Professor Julien Pollack started working in project management in the Australian public sector delivering organizational change projects, where he completed an Action Research Ph.D. This research won national and …

Transitioning from passive to active learning: Preparing future project leaders

Project Leadership and Society | December, 2021

Project Productivity report

Industry Partners: BHP, Sydney Water, Telstra, Woodside Energy and Woolworths | Authors: Lynn Crawford and Julien Pollack | November, 2021

Stakeholder theory and management: Understanding longitudinal collaboration networks

PLoS ONE | October, 2021

Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal | October, 2021

Leadership Diversity and Its Influence on Equality Initiatives and Performance: Insights for Construction Management

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management | October, 2021

Corporate Entrepreneurship as a Learning Process: Development of New Capabilities

Entrepreneurship Research Journal | August, 2021

Collecting experimental network data from interventions on critical links in workplace networks

Social Networks | July, 2021

Dynamic Analysis on Public Concerns in Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge: Integrated Topic and Sentiment Modeling Approach

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management | June. 2021

Mitigating infrastructure disaster losses through asset management practices in the Middle East and North Africa region

Sustainability | August 2022

Who benefits from network intervention programs? TERGM analysis across ten Philippine low-income communities

Social Networks | May, 2021

Insights into Ineffectiveness of Gender Equality and Diversity Initiatives in Project-Based Organizations

Journal of Management in Engineering | May, 2021

The Origins of Agile and Iterative Methods

The Journal of Modern Project Management | January, 2021

Preparing for Successful Collaborative Contracts

Sustainability | January, 2021

A social network framework for stakeholder engagement analysis

PMI Australia Conference | 2017

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