Recent research graduates
The following is a selection of recent research graduates of the Department of Management Science.
Colin Paterson
Degree: PhD
Year: 2012
Thesis Title: Hybrid Later Transshipments: Reative Stock Rebalancing in Supply Networks
Lixian Qian
Degree: PhD
Year: 2012
Thesis Title: Essays on forecasting demand and preferences for cars in emerging markets: The case of China
Andrew MacPherson
Degree: PhD
Year: 2012
Thesis Title: On the design of policies for the inspection, repair and replacement of 2-phase systems subject to ageing. When can error-prone sensors help?
Adrian Fletcher
Degree: PhD
Year: 2012
Thesis Title: Generic Simulation modelling of Accident and Emergency patient flows in acute hospitals in England
Mahmut Boz
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: The Genesis of Initiative Formation in Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Capability-Based Perspective on Quality Management Standard-driven IS Development in the Turkish Automotive Industry
Bulut Aslan
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: An Assessment of Applicability to Make-To-Order Companies
Greg Rogers
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: Improving Marketing Decisions Through the Use of Choice Models
First Destination Employer: Procter & Gamble
Tu-I Jessica Hu
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: A behavioural model of the adoption and use of new telecommunications media: the effects of communications scenarios and media product/service attributes
Tao Huang
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: Forecasting Retailer Product Sales at the UPC Level Using Econometric Models with Promotional Information
Abubakar Yahaya
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: Heuristic Approaches to Portfolio Optimization
First Destination Employer: Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
Yuan Huang
Degree: PhD
Year: 2011
Thesis Title: Workload Control (WLC): Success in Practice
Dong (Devin) Li - Joint Kingsman Prize 2011 Award Winner
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: An approximate dynamic programming approach to the scheduling of impatient jobs in a clearing system
First Destination Employer: AVIS Europe
Dominic Duckett
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Zoonosis and the social amplification of risk
Matthias Koenig
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Risk considerations in revenue management
Navid Izady - Joint Kingsman Prize 2011 Award Winner
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: On queues with time varying demand
First Destination Employer: Southampton University
Eliot Simangunsong
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Supply chain uncertainty: linking sources of uncertainty and management practices
First Destination Employer: Prasetiya Mulya Business School, Indonesia
Channa Gunawardena
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Donor Project Funded ICT Initiatives in the VTE Sector of Asian Developing Countries: A Systems Study of Strategic & Management Issues
Oliverio Cruz-Mejia
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Merge-in-Transit Supply Chains: Operations Analysis
Qianxin Mu
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Disruption Management in Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
Arne Strauss - Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2010
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Optimisation in Choice-Based Network Revenue Management
First Destination Employer: Lancaster University
Hong Juan Liu
Degree: PhD
Year: 2010
Thesis Title: Customer Profitability Modelling for Direct Marketing of Business Insurance to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
First Destination Employer: Prudential, Hong Kong
Nikolaos Kourentzes - Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2009
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: Input variable selection for time series forecasting with artificial neural networks - an emirical evaluation across varying time series frequencies
First Destination Employer: Lancaster University
Katharina Kinder
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: Ubituitous Computing in Industrial Workplaces: Cultural Logics and Theming user contexts
First Destination Employer: Lancaster University
Dong Fang Shi
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: Determining the Range of Predictions for Calibrated Agent-Based Simulation Models
First Destination Employer: Bank of China
James Langabeer
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: The Diffusion of Operations Reaserch in Management Decision Making: An Analysis of U.S. Healthcare Organisations
First Destination Employer: University of Texas
Laddawan Kaewkitipong
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: E-business adoption and evaluation in Thai tourism SMEs
Syed Ahmad Fuad Syed Abdul Hamid
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: Implementation and acceptance of information systems in a developing country - A case study of SMAP implementation in Tenega Nasional Berhad
First Destination Employer: Tenega Nasional Berhad, Malaysia
Abdulrahman Al-Nasser
Degree:PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: A Causal Comparative Study of the Impact of Quality Management Implementation on Organizational Culture
Murat Gunal
Degree: PhD
Year: 2009
Thesis Title: Simulation Modelling for Understanding Performance in Healthcare
First Destination Employer: Turkish Naval Academy
Stavros Asimakopoulos
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: A Human Computer Interaction Perspective on Forecasting Systems Design
Joao Minussi
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: New Corporate Credit Scoring Models
Konstantinos (Dinos) Kaparis - Joint Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2008
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: Knapsack problems: inequalities, separation and heuristics
First Destination Employer: Southamton University
Daniel Grainger
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: Contributions to Quadratic 0-1 Programming
First Destination Employer: Capital One
Kostas Selviaridis - Joint Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2008
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: The Process of Service Definition in Third Party Logistics Relationships
Minahi Al-Kahtani
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: Using Modified Empathic Design to Improve the Quality of Primary Healthcare Services in Saudi Arabia
Amar Oukil
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: Exploiting Sparsity in Vehicle Routing Algorithms
Lan Chen
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: High Performance Simulation in Quasi-Continuous Manufacturing Plants
Wang Wang
Degree: PhD
Year: 2008
Thesis Title: Empirical Investigations of Conceptual Modelling and the Modelling Process
Claire Worthington
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: A decision support system for modelling the response of police to emergency incidents
David Burnell
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: Gains from district meeting: models of final use and leakage in a UK metropolitan area for tactical and strategic application
Hongliang Zhang
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: The pathogen construct in project risk analysis
Sheryl Thompson
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: ICT adoption of Jamaican SMEs: policy and firm level perspectives on managed interventions.
Nitty Kamarulzaman
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: An emperical investigation into the development of e-supply chains in the Malaysian palm oil industry
First Destination Employer: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Evangelos (Vagelis) Tsoukatos - Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2007
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: Customer behaviour, service quality and the effects of culture: A quantitative analysis in Greek insurance
First Destination Employer: TEI of Crete - Department of Finance and Insurance
Alexey Artamonov
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: Application of Distributed Simulation in Supply Chain
First Destination Employer: RUSAL, Russia
Jenny Hongyan Li
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: Capacity Optimization for Supply ChainsFirst Destination Employer: Northeastern University, China
Adelaide Carvalho
Degree: PhD
Year: 2007
Thesis Title: DotNetSim: NExt Generation Simulation SoftwareFirst Destination Employer: IESF - Instituto de Estudos Superiores Financeiros e Fiscais (the Institute for Finance and Tax Studies), Portugal
William Maden
Degree: PhD
Year: 2006
Thesis Title: Models and Heuristic Algorithms for Complex Routing and Scheduling ProblemsFirst Destination Employer: Self employed consultant in logistics modelling
Steve Finlay - Joint Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2006
Degree: PhD
Year: 2006
Thesis Title: Modelling Issues in Credit Scoring
Mark Stevenson - Joint Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2006
Degree: PhD
Year: 2006
Thesis Title: Bridging the Gap: Refining a Workload Control ConceptFirst Destination Employer: Lancaster University
Nicholas Pearson - Kingsman Prize Award Winner 2005
Degree: PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Minimum Cuts, Circuits and Tours in Planar GraphsFirst Destination Employer: University of Southampton
Preeprem Nonthaleerak
Degree: PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Strengthening Six Sigma for Service ImplementationsFirst Destination Employer: Dhurakit-bundit University
Wing Cheong Tham
Degree:PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Depot Location-Routing Models Based on a Real Supply Chain NetworkFirst Destination Employer: Melioris, Singapore
Simmy Marwa
Degree: PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Service Quality Diagnosis and Improvement of Kenya's Insurance IndustryFirst Destination Employer: Bradford University School of Management
Suzie Ismail
Degree: PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Algorithmic Approaches to Multiple Time Series Forecasting
First Destination Employer: Universiti Utara Malaysia
Efi Chassioti
Degree: PhD
Year: 2005
Thesis Title: Queueing Models for Call Centres
Eugene Melan
Degree: PhD
Year of award: 2004
Thesis Title: Towards a contingency theory of invervention using system-based methods
Alan Weston
Degree: PhD
Year of award: 2004
Thesis Title: Building and using operational tools associated with time of travel forecasting of pollution in rivers and behaviour analysis of water resource supply systems
First Destination Employer: Environment Agency
Nigel Lockett
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2004
Thesis Title: The potential of aggregation for facilitating the engagement of SMEs in E-Business
First Destination Employer: Management Science Dept., Lancaster University Management School
Mike Wright
Degree: PhD (by published work)
Year awarded: 2003
Current Employer: Management Science Dept., Lancaster University Management School
Edgardo Escalante-Vazquez
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis Title: A study of variation and defects in manufacturing, with specific application to Mexican Industry
First Destination Employer: Dept. Ing. Industrial, ITESM, Mexico
Umaru Farouk Aminu
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis Title: Investigating constraint programming approaches to arc routing
First Destination Employer: Hasson Usman Katsina Polytechnic, Nigeria
Khodakaram (Nasser) Salimifard
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis Title: Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Workflows Using Time Hierarchical Petri Nets
First Destination Employer: Persian Gulf University, Iran
Carlos Barbosa Figueiredo
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis Title: Forecasting, Monitoring and Stock Control in the Mail Order Environment
First Destination Employer: University of Minho, Portugal
Stephen Barker
Degree: PhD
Year awarded: 2003
Thesis Title: World Class Manufacturing: A Panacea for the Aerospace Sector?First Destination Employer: Dept. of Power, Propulsion & Aerospace Engineering, Cranfield University
