Over 75 participants joined our CIB Webinar on 3 May 2021. We would like to thank Paul Chan for his inspirational and reflective discussion on research with CM&E.
Paul joined Delft University of Technology in 2019 as Professor of Design and Construction Management in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree and PhD in Construction Management at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Since his doctoral study on construction labour productivity, he has developed a track record in studying how people cope with organisational, social and technological change. He has successfully completed a number of funded research projects in the areas of sustainability transitions, business model change towards servitisation, and on social value and social sustainability. He is currently also Principal Investigator of ‘Stepping Out’, a €1.2m NWO (Dutch Research Funding Agency) funded five-year project that investigates how professionals can step outside of their knowledge domains to innovate in the sustainable transition challenges in two urban living laboratories in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. He is Editor-in-Chief of Construction Management and Economics, a Committee Member of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM), and has authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles. He also authored Constructing Futures (2010), a Wiley-Blackwell publication on leadership and futures thinking.
Construction Management and Economics publishes high-quality original research concerning the management and economics of activity in the construction industry. Our concern is the production of the built environment. We seek to extend the concept of construction beyond on-site production to include a wide range of value-adding activities and involving coalitions of multiple actors, including clients and users, that evolve over time. We embrace the entire range of construction services provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sector, including design, procurement and through-life management. We welcome papers that demonstrate how the range of diverse academic and professional disciplines enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological and/or empirical insights into the world of construction. Ultimately, our aim is to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction sector as a topic of research. While we expect papers to have strong theoretical positioning, we also seek contributions that offer critical, reflexive accounts on practice.
In this session, Paul will reflect on his editorial experience to offer key pointers on how to write a paper that makes a strong impact.
