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Research Knowledge Bank

Project Leadership in a Changing World

The Research Knowledge Bank serves as a central resource highlighting four major research projects led by our Project Leadership Team. It provides insights into ongoing initiatives, fosters collaboration, and supports informed decision-making by sharing progress, objectives, and outcomes that drive innovation and strategic impact.

  • Project Leadership

    We are interested in how project leadership is distributed within and across organisations. A challenge for project sponsors, leaders and managers is how to empower others and provide leadership in their context to create value. The capable owner plays a significant role, with organisations making leadership, sponsorship and governance decisions across portfolios, programs and projects.

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  • Digital Transformation

     We are interested in using data-driven approaches to support decision-makers in conceiving and setting-up complex projects. By bringing together insights on project delivery models and methods with those on systems integration and the transformative nature of digital information we aim to provide rich information on the patterns of project outcomes.

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  • Organisational Dynamics of Projects

    Project leaders have significant responsibility as they grow teams, manage temporary and changing organisations, and hand over into operations.  Researchers are examining projects as a form of large-scale organising, taking process perspectives to address questions of their temporality.

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  • Projects for Sustainable, Resilient and Just Futures

    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.

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