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carried out at WBS led the way in several OM sub-fields such as quality management and service operations, and recent award-winning projects have focused on various areas such as sustainable supply chains, healthcare operations, and innovation and technology management. </span></p> <p paraeid="{5ce9b061-15b5-4aa7-ad64-8c4c534b2202}{77}" paraid="1373862381"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Our current research portfolio covers a broad range of topics, including:</span></p> <ul> <li>Supply chain management</li> <li>Process improvement</li> <li>Environmental and social issues in operations</li> <li>Strategic alignment and operations strategy</li> <li>Performance measurement and management</li> <li>Service operations</li> <li>Design thinking and innovation management. </li> </ul> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">We apply and advance a variety of methods ranging from large-scale empirical studies, case research, network analysis, and 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Our work, while grounded in the field of operations management, is often the result of collaborations with colleagues in other areas of management research, such as organisation theory, innovation and entrepreneurship, and marketing. </span></p> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Members of the Group have recently authored publications in many prestigious journals such as the <em>Journal of Operations Management</em>, the <em>Academy of Management Journal</em>, the <em>Journal of Supply Chain Management</em>, the <em>Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science</em>, <em>Research Policy</em>, the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Journal of Product Innovation Management, </span></em>and the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">International Journal of Operations and Production Management.</span></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Editorial positions held by our faculty currently include Consulting Editor for the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">International Journal of Operations and Production Management</span></em>, Associate Editors of the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Journal of Operations Management</span></em> and <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">International Journal of Operations and Production Management</span></em>, and editorial board members of the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Journal of Product Innovation Management</span></em> and the <em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Journal of Supply Chain Management</span></em>.</span></p> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"> </p> <h3 style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Teaching</h3> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">We teach across all the WBS programmes, delivering core and elective modules in operations-related subjects at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Examples of modules include:</span></p> <ul> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Operations management (core module in most programmes)</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Project management</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Improving process performance</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Supply chain management</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Managing organisational performance</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Design in business.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Our teaching has been recognised as excellent by national and international associations and our Emeritus Professor, Nigel Slack, has been at the forefront of teaching and research in operations for decades. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"> </p> <h3 style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Impact</span></h3> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">We welcome and foster close collaboration with industry and have attracted substantial amounts of research funding through AHRC, ESRC, the British Academy, InnovateUK, and directly from industry. </span></p> <p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:8px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Our research findings have impacted management practice in many organisations operating in the private sector (e.g. Emirates Group, Jaguar Land Rover, BAE Systems, BP) and public sector (e.g. UK NHS, United Arab Emirates Government, UK Cabinet Office), and in several social enterprises and NGOs. 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