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Sara RyeSara Rye PhD FAPM SFHE

Associate Professor in Project Management, University of Bradford

Sara specialises in risk management, humanitarian logistics, and the application of decision-making tools and techniques.

She has experience as a supply chain manager in an automotive manufacturer and as a performance consultant in a global distribution network of medical equipment.

Her educational background is in Decision Sciences, Operations Research, Economics, and Research Methods.

Her research focuses on various aspects of operations management, systems thinking, disaster management, decision making, and serious games.

She provides consultancy to not-for-profit organisations on a pro-bono basis.

Sara is currently the Deputy Head of Department for the Peace Studies and International Development.

In the past she has served as Director of Student Experience, Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Head of Game-Based Learning Center, Co-Lead of Athena Swan.

Sara is a member of several research groups, including the "Gender and Disasters" group at UCL, the "Simulation SIG research interest group" and OR society, the "Natha Puri Research Institute" at London South Bank University, and the Risk Interest Network committee in the Association of Project Management as well as the EDIB Advisor.

She has led international research projects on game-based learning across Europe and the Middle East.

She has supervised PhD candidates on subjects such as humanitarian logistics, sustainable projects, simulation and serious games, operations risk, behavioural OR, decision science, and project and Agile risks. She is currently accepting self-funded full-time students in the following subjects: humanitarian logistics, sustainable projects, simulation and serious games, operations risk, behavioural OR, and decision sciences.

She is part of the EPSRC and UKRI Peer Review College.

With a background in industrial logistics (automotive manufacturing, transportation, and medical supplies), she holds a PhD in humanitarian logistics from Brunel University. As a senior fellow of UK HE and a National Teaching Fellow Nominee, she has an interest in game-based learning.