Dr Helen Peck
Senior Lecturer, Commercial and Supply Chain Risk
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: h.peck@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785769
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Helen teaches corporate and supply chain risk on graduate programmes and short courses at Cranfield University and guest lecturers at other leading universities in the UK and Europe. Her research-based teaching brings together themes of risk, resilience and complex systems theory with practical management disciplines such as supply chain management and business continuity.
Her work contributes directly to the development of UK national emergency planning policy as well as management practice.
Her research and consultancy interests span mainstream commercial, defence and other public service contexts. She is a regular speaker at academic, business and defence conferences around the world.
Dr Helen Peck's research interests include:
- Supply Chain Resilience
- National Emergency Planning
- Defence Logistics
- Food Security
- Energy Security
- Pandemic Planning
- Business Continuity
- Supply Chain Risk Management
Clients
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Industry and Emergency Divisions, Royal Air Force: Air Headquarters, Defence Logistics Organisation: Concepts, Defence Logistics Organisation: Strategic Analysis, Department for Transport, BAE Systems: Futures
Background
Helen joined Cranfield University in 1983, from a major UK clearing bank. Initially employed within in the University’s library and information service, she made the transition to an academic post in the Marketing & Logistics Group at Cranfield School of Management in 1988, where she completed her PhD as a first degree.
Helen has led Cranfield University’s ground-breaking government-funded research programme into all aspects of supply chain related risk and resilience since its inception in May 2001.
In 2005 she relocated to the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis at the University’s Shrivenham Campus.
Helen is author of numerous academic papers, practitioner journal articles, and Government reports. She is also co-editor and author of several books, and an award-winning writer of management case studies.
Selected publications
Resilience in the Food Chain: A Study of Business Continuity Management in the Food and Drink Industry. Final Report on behalf of the Department for Food and Rural Affairs, July 2006.
Chapell, A. and Peck, H. (2006). “Managing Risk in the Defence Supply Chain: Is there a Role for Six Sigma?” International Journal of Logistics Research & Applications, Vol.9. No3, September pp253-267.
ISSN 1367 5567
Peck, H. (2006) “Reconciling Supply Chain Vulnerability with Risk and Supply Chain Management”, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Vol.9. No.2, June. pp127-142.
ISSN 1367 5567
Christopher, M., Towill D. and Peck, H. (2006), A Taxonomy for Selecting Global Supply Chain Strategies”, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 17, No.2, pp277-287
ISSN 0957 4903
Peck, H. (2005) “The Drivers of Supply Chain Vulnerability: An Integrated Framework”, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol. 35, No4. pp210-232
ISSN 0960 0035
“Building the Resilient Supply Chain”, International Journal of Logistics Management, (M. Christopher and H. Peck), Vol.15, No.2, 2004, pp1-14.
ISSN 0957 4903
