Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains
Bringing together work from management, supply chain management, international business, and beyond the Business School into engineering, chemistry, physics, geography and data science.
How to create resilient and sustainable supply chains in the context of economic, social and environmental pressures is a crucial contemporary question for academics, policy-makers and industry.
This research theme sits at the intersection of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) addressing strategic priorities for both (ESRC – net zero and security, risk and resilience; EPSRC – sustainability, circular economies and digital futures).
The interdisciplinarity of the research theme encourages the cross-fertilisation of ideas within the School, across the University and with external stakeholders including industry and policymakers.
The concepts of resilience and sustainability are related, but their academic, industry and policy-making relevance varies, creating an interesting area of research that can contribute to understanding grand challenges – particularly when social science perspectives are developed alongside insights from STEM and the Arts.
The theme will develop interdisciplinary concepts and methods, and expand further our areas of empirical research (for example, sectors and geographical contexts).
This research theme will launch externally in September. Please check back soon for further details on memberships and research activities.
Purpose of the research:
- Build on existing work to create a critical mass of world-leading expertise.
- Include researchers from across the career spectrum, creating opportunities for collaboration with colleagues (publications, grant applications) and developing the researchers of the future.
- Increase connections between the Business School and other Faculties with the purpose of intellectual enrichment and increased grant capture – particularly of Interdisciplinary grants.
- Work collaboratively with industry and policymakers to co-create research.
- Support the School research strategy.
- Develop shared understandings of interdisciplinary research and impact.
- Develop expertise in interdisciplinary grant capture and grant management.
Contact us
Dr Phil Davies
Selected existing research in this subject area:
- Brokering Additive Manufacturing (EPSRC, Johns & Engineering)
- RAMONA (EPSRC, Davies)
- REWIRE (EPSRC, Zhang & Smart)
- Sustainable agricultural supply chains (EPSRC, McCarthy)