Professor Mike Pidd honoured by Operational Research Society
Published 20 December 2011
Professor Mike Pidd has been awarded the Companionship of Operational Research by the Operational Research Society, for outstanding service to the Society.
Mike is currently Head of the Department of Management Science at LUMS. The department contains one of the largest groups of OR academics in the UK. He is an outstanding academic who is well known for his books “Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science” (now in its 3rd edition) and “Computer Simulation in Management Science” (now in its 5th edition).
He is an active researcher in OR, particularly in the fields of performance measurement and simulation. From 2003 to 2005 he was an ESRC Research Fellow funded under the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), investigating ways to improve performance measurement in the provision of public services. Recent work in simulation funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has included work on performance measurement and improvement for hospitals in the National Health Service.
Mike is a long-standing member of the UK OR Society and was its President in 2000-2001. Since then he has served the OR community by being Chair of the Committee of Professors of OR (COPIOR) from 2005 to 2009.
Mike has also served the wider academic community by being chair of the Business and Management panel (I36) for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2005 to 2008. He is currently chair of the Business and Management subpanel for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). These research assessments are extremely important and influential for UK academic departments. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.
