Contact Dr Liz Lee-Kelley

Background

A recipient of the coveted Operational Research Society Stafford Beer Medal in 2013, Liz also worked in a senior management capacity in engineering and clinical research organisations.

Liz was awarded the Freedom of the City of London just before she assumed an academic career.

Current activities

To concentrate on her research and consultancy, Liz recently retired from Cranfield School of Management where she was a senior lecturer and director of Cranfield's International Centre for Programme Management for whom she led the successful bid for the Cabinet Office contract to up-skill senior civil servants tasked with delivering UK's major programmes and projects.

Liz's research portfolio and role as an editorial board member for various journals enables her to teach across boundaries, bringing people successfully together in a learning environment. Her current research interest is on understanding the human dimension in major projects; in particular, encouraging collaborative and cooperative learning and working by temporary and distributed teams.

Liz's external academic appointments include:

Adjunct Professor in Project and Risk Management at Canberra University, Australia.

Visiting Professor, PPM Doctoral Programme, SKEMA, Lille, France.

Visiting Faculty, University of Surrey Business School.

Publications

Articles In Journals