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The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction 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 

 

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


Rafaella Broft
The design of a Lean Production System to successfully implement SCM at the lower tiers of construction supply chains
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth


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

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

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


Loan Diep
Politics of Green Infrastructure in favelas
Supervisory team: Dr Priti Parikh and Dr David Dodman


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


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


Adam Golden
Managing innovation in major projects and programmes

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

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

    Nicholas Nisbet
    Regulatory Compliance and Knowledge capture
    Supervisory team: Dr Ling Ma; Dr Gulnaz Aksenova and Professor Tim Broyd (Director of Studies)

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


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

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

    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

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

    Hang Lai
    Real Estate Finance and Economics
    Supervisory team: Professor Stanimira Milcheva and Dr Evangelia Chrysikou

    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

    Jiayin Meng 
    Green Infrastructure Investment and Finance
    Supervisory team: Dr. Zhen Ye and Dr. Jing Meng

    Oscar Cruz Navarro 
    The geopolitical and geo-economic challenges facing project management in tackling the impacts of climate change on infrastructure projects
    Supervisory team: Dr Vedran Zerjav and Dr Effie Konstantinou 

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

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

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

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

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

      Saule Sakenova
      Exploring project portfolio selection processing project-based organisations

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

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

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

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

      Xinlu Sun
      Region- and city-level climate change mitigation and sustainable development
      Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Prof D'Maris Coffman

         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

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

        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 Dr Meri Duryan

         Kang Tong

        Value drivers of modularisation extent

         

             Francesca Vinci

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

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

            He Xiao
            The use of blockchain technology to address the collaboration/trust problems of BIM in the UK's construction industry: from the perspectives of technology, process, behaviour
            Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık

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

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

            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

            Zhiqiang Yin
            Climate change economics; Climate change risk assessment; Climate change adaptation; Numerical modelling
            Supervisory team:  Professor Dabo Guan and Dr Jing Meng

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

            Fei Yuan (Sophie)
            Understanding Employees’ Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) from the Organisational Psychology Perspectives
            Supervisory team: Professor Niamh Murtagh and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki

            Zijng Zhang
            Automatic code compliance checking of healthcare facilities
            Supervisory team: Dr. Ling Ma and Prof. Tim Broyd 

             

            Former students

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            Imad Ahmed
            Political economy of infrastructure investment

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

            Simon Addyman
            Management of projects, networks and supply chains

            Huda Almadhoob
            Self-organised networks in large construction projects

            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

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

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

            Marcos Gonzalez Fuentez
            The co-creation of project/service valued outcomes: a client service (dominant logic) perspective

            Roselyn Itopa 

            Lois Yixi Liao
            Herding behaviour in housing markets

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

            Pouria Panahi

            Anne Symons

            Prompt Udomdech
            Project-based learning to advance building information modelling innovation adoption in the built environment SMEs

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

            Jing Xu
            The value of trust in construction supply chains

             

             

             

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