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.
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
- New paper on PPP contract design accepted by Local Government Studies2026-09
- New grant from the NSFC on large language models in project management2026-09
- Stepped down as School HDR Coordinator and from the Faculty Research Degree Committee2026-08
- 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