Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains
An interdisciplinary research group bringing together expertise from the Business School with the faculties of Science and Engineering, Health and Life Sciences, and the Arts Social Science and Law.
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Contemporary global challenges—such as geopolitical, regulatory, climate, and social pressures—have led to shifts in supply chains research and practice. Now, both resilience and sustainability are critical in the design and management of modern supply chains.
While digital technologies are seen as key to achieving these goals, it’s important to remember that supply chains also rely on people and their skills, knowledge, and experience. This mix of digital and human resource leads to the interpretation of supply chains as socio-technical systems. By adopting this perspective, the group sees that an understanding of, and improvements in, the design, behaviour and performance of any supply chain can only be achieved if both its social and technical aspects are considered as interdependent. Given the complexity of socio-technical supply chains, finding solutions that support both resilience and sustainability is difficult.
Our Mission
The Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chain research group fosters an engaged and interdisciplinary research approach, collaborating with organisations to create practical solutions that improve the resilience and sustainability of their supply chains.
By co-creating projects with partners in both the public and private sector, we ensure our research delivers actionable insights and practical solutions with both academic rigour and industry relevance. Working across our five core thematic areas, the group helps to improve the resilience and sustainability of our partners supply chains.
Our key thematic areas:
- Food Security, Safety and Sustainability.
- Manufacturing and Critical Imports.
- Renewable Energy.
- Health Security.
- Transportation and Logistics
Current members (Updated March 2025)
- Dr Adriana Korczak
- Dr Ai-Ling Lai
- Mr Akinyo Ola
- Professor Alan Champneys
- Dr Annika Skoglund
- Dr Annika Flynn
- Dr Bai Li
- Dr Bangdong Zhi
- Dr Chandrasekararao Seepana
- Dr Danielle Ferriday
- Dr Ed Atkins
- Ms Eleanor McNally
- Dr Fatima Lopez Castellanos
- Mr Filip Langer
- Dr Fiorella Picchioni
- Professor Gernot Klantschnig
- Professor Gilberto Montibeller
- Professor Graham Abbey
- Professor Hinrich Voss
- Dr Irene Bueno
- Professor Jeff Brunstrom
- Professor Jennifer Johns
- Dr Jie Zhang
- Dr Jiyoung Shin
- Dr Jonathan Beacham
- Dr Lloyd Fletcher
- Dr Lucy McCarthy
- Dr Maria Michali
- Dr Maria Valero