G’Day! I am an Associate Professor in Project Management at the University of Technology Sydney, where I also hold a two-year appointment as Associate Professor, Graduate Research with the Graduate Research School. I work on how infrastructure gets delivered: how risk is allocated in public-private partnerships, what relationships do that contracts cannot, and how a project holds the consent of the people it is built among. The academic profiles listed here hold the record. This website is where I explain what it adds up to.
Current projects
Social licence for infrastructure
Who grants legitimacy to a project, and how it is held across a lifecycle rather than secured once at approval.
AI readiness in construction projects
Readiness rather than capability: whether an organisation’s data, governance and skills let it use the tools that already exist.
Project management for HDRs
A doctorate run as a project by the candidate rather than directed by the supervisor, and the training at the Graduate Research School that makes that workable.
Now
What the job actually consists of, one page for each part of it. These are reviewed rather than kept continuously current; the date at the foot of each page says when it was last looked at.
- Research — contract, relationship and consent
- Outputs and impact — attention, uptake and use
- Teaching — learning to teach it
- Supervision — the candidate is the project manager
- Service — inside the university and outside it
- Working together — supervision, collaboration and contact
Journey
- Associate Professor, Project Management, University of Technology Sydney2022-01
- Senior Lecturer, Project Management, University of Technology Sydney2016-09
- Lecturer, Construction Management, University of Newcastle2013-06
- Research Fellow, National University of Singapore2010-07
- PhD, Management Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University2010-07
- BEng, Project Management, Tsinghua University2005-07
Recent
- Rebuilt this website, replacing role-based pages with briefs and narratives2026-08
- Offered the 2-year role of Associate Professor, Graduate Research with GRS2026-06
- New paper accepted by Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management2026-05
- New paper accepted by Built Environment Project and Asset Management2026-05
- New book on Public-Private Partnerships published by World Scientific2026-04
- Joined the Scientific Committee for the 49th AUBEA conference2026-03