PhD students

The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management postgraduate programmes are broad and deeply influenced by practice, taking in construction economics, infrastructure finance and project leadership. Details of our current research students and their topic of research are listed below.

Current students

Olushade Adepeju-Joseph
Supervisory team: Professor Aeli Roberts and Professor Hedley Smyth

Imad Ahmed
Political economy of infrastructure investment
Supervisory team: Professor D'Maris Coffman and Dr Priti Parikh

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Ahmed Mohamed Alnaggar
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Claire Andrew

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Rafaella Broft
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth

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Yan Chen
Driving factors of carbon emissions in the built environment: a comparison between London and Beijing
Supervisory team: Professor D'Maris Coffman and Dr Zhifu Mi

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Lu Cheng 
Life-cycle carbon emissions in the construction sector: Comparisons between China and the UK
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Dr Jing Meng

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Guilherme Duch Crosta
Supervisory team: Professor Jacqui Glass and Dr Armando Castro

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Mohamed Elkaddah
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki

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Zigeng Fang
Machine learning applications in Facility Management
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Sean Hanna

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Adam Golden
Managing innovation in major projects and programmes

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Yasmin Garcia-Sterling
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Qiuchen Lu

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Jessy Gomes Moreira
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Meri Duryan

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Marcos Gonzalez Fuentez
The co-creation of project/service valued outcomes: a client service (dominant logic) perspective
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor

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Juan Gutes Pascual
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Effie Konstantinou

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Kehan He
Embodied emissions; environmental economics; climate change
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Professor D'Maris Coffman

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Qi He
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Stefano Miraglia

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Yunlong Huang
Economic analysis of the Real Estate market with statistical machine learning and big data
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Stefano Miraglia

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Tehreem Husain
Railway mergers in the early twentieth century: an exploratory study
Supervisory team: Professor D'Maris Coffman and Dr Coskun Tuncer

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Anam Latif
Betwixt and Between: Navigating the emergence of belonging paradox through the dynamics of power & disequilibrium
Supervisory team: Dr Stefano Miraglia and Associate Professor John Kelsey

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Lois Yixi Liao
Herding behaviour in housing markets
Supervisory team: Professor Michelle Baddeley, Honorary Professor and Dr Aniket Kumar

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Juan D. Gutés Pascual
The dynamics of trust elements in construction projects
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Effie Konstantinou

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Pouria Panahi

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Alejandro Vargas-Ramirez
Uncertainty and innovation within business-critical projects
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Stefano Miraglia

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Baker Rickaby
Dealing with Uncertainty in Megaprojects
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Ilias Krystallis

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Irinie Roufaeel
Emergency Department evaluation and optimization using space syntax and hybrid simulation techniques
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Prof Alan Penn

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Mostafa Safar
Supervisory team: Dr Stefano Miraglia and Professor Niamh Murtagh

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Saule Sakenova
Exploring project portfolio selection processing project-based organisations

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Giuseppe Sassano
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Antoine Vernet

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Denis Scott
Utilising Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology for Infrastructure Industry Transformation
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Ling Ma

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Gagandip Sehmbi
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Ling Ma

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Gatot Subroto
Why and How (Fear of) Corruption Hinders Projects, Evidence from Indonesia
Supervisory team: Dr Effie Konstantinou and Dr Vedran Zerjav

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Anne Symons
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Professor Aeli Roberts

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Mohamad El Tannir
The implementation of lessons learned and knowledge management at the front end of projects
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Ilias Krystallis

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Tan Tan 
Beyond Building: Digital Transformation to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki

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Angeliki Maria (Marilina) Toli
Studying resource exchange through actor interactions in the smart city service ecosystem, using the service dominant logic
Supervisory team: Dr Niamh Murtagh and Professor Hedley Smyth

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Prompt Udomdech
Project-based learning to advance building information modelling innovation adoption in the built environment SMEs
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki

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Francesca Vinci
Project leadership and project capabilities for innovative and successful project delivery
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Vedran Zerjav

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Florence Walker
Supervisory team: Professor Aeli Roberts and Professor Niamh Murtagh

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Lingshan Xie 
Project finance and governance: theories and implications in the infrastructure context.
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Peter Ye

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Wu Yue Xiong
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Ling Ma

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Pu Yang
Patterns of carbon emissions in European and Chinese cities
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Professor D'Maris Coffman

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Wu Yanga
Bridging the energy performance gap: a process study of routine intersections at project handover stage
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Stefano Miraglia

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Chunlin Yu
Coping with Complexity in Megaprojects
Supervisory team: Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki and Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor

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Fei Yuan (Sophie)
Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behavior: I- and We-intentions, Identities, and Culture
Supervisory team: Professor Niamh Murtagh and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki

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Meichen Zhang
Supervisory team: Professor D'Maris Coffman and Dr Jing Meng

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Former students

Diyana Syafiqah Abd Razak
Cost of quality during construction post-handover 

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Simon Addyman
Management of projects, networks and supply chains

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Huda Almadhoob
Self-organised networks in large construction projects

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 Luc Bardin

Roberto Cardinale
The transition from the national to the EU model of energy governance: a comparative case study of the Greenstream, Galsi and Medgaz gas pipelines

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Nafiseh Darvish
Capability building to deal with time delays in gas upstream megaprojects

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Juliano Denicol
Designing client organisations and supply chain strategies to deliver megaprojects

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Roselyn Itopa 

 Omoleye Ojuri
Prescribing a management agenda for the Nigerian water supply system: value co-creation and networks prescriptions

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Pouria Panahi

Daan Vermeer
Collective learning in strategic Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement systems for social infrastructure

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Jing Xu
The value of trust in construction supply chains

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