I’m Yongjian Ke — I study how infrastructure gets delivered.
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 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 below hold the record. This website is where I explain what it adds up to.
Working together
I supervise HDR candidates and work with government and industry on PPPs, project governance and social licence. If that overlaps with what you’re doing, get in touch.
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Research
Contract, relationship and consent: risk allocation in public-private partnerships, relational and psychological contracts, and social licence and how to measure it.
Outputs and impact
What the publication record amounts to: where the citations concentrate, which policy documents cite the work, and what none of it measures.
Teaching
Ten years of postgraduate project management teaching at UTS, what the four-day block format does to it, and where students still go wrong.
Supervision
Who I have supervised and where they went, and why a doctorate is the candidate’s project, with the supervisor a resource on it.
Service
Committee, misconduct and governance work inside UTS; journal, standards and grant assessment work outside it; and what neither proves.
Updates
- Moved this website to a single-column design2026-09
- 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
- Left the School HDR Coordinator role and 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
Journey
- Associate Professor, Graduate Research, UTS Graduate Research School2026-08
- 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