Overordnede kursusmål
The successful execution of megaprojects is at the core of making
our green transition goals a reality. Executing those large
infrastructure projects – from electricity to smart cities to
transportation – has never been more challenging, nor more
important. We are therefore experiencing a paradigm shift in large
construction projects: Today, the expectations are no longer
'only' to deliver on time and on budget, but also against a
(rightfully so) increasingly ambitious sustainability agenda. At
the same time, while we have significant success with some
megaprojects, overall our ability to deliver megaprojects requires
significant attention and development.
The overall objective of this course is to strengthen the education
of PhD students specifically in the area of megaproject management,
and create additional research and collaboration opportunities
across academia, industry and policy stakeholders.
As a participating PhD student, you will
• Get access to a world-class megaproject management organization
for an empirical, implementation-focused research engagement (e.g.
a validation case study)
• Train to articulate your findings and ideas for a practitioner
audience.
• Improve your empirical research skills through lectures and
assignments.
• Generate concepts and material for future publications.
In exchange, we expect you to contribute by:
• Submission of a "pitch "statement regarding the
relevance of your research findings for application in megaproject
management
• Participation in two in-person meetings in Denmark of 2-3 days
each
• Active research engagement during the 4 months between the PhD
School meetings.
• Preparation of joint final deliverable with other participants
(for example, a newspaper article or the development of a data
warehouse)
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Formulate a research hypothesis (or research question) in the
context of existing megaproject management research.
- Identify and articulate the theoretical foundation of your
specific research activities in the context of megaproject
management research.
- Communicate your research idea to a practitioner audience.
- Identify and apply suitable empirical research methods to
satisfy both academic expectation as well as those of a megaproject
management practitioner.
- Plan and execute an empirical research engagement with a
megaproject management practitioner.
- Present and discuss your findings orally as well as through a
journal paper draft.
- Provide peer feedback to publication drafts of other course
participants
- Articulate research insights for megaproject practitioners in
an actionable way
Kursusindhold
The PhD Spring School consists of a set of 5 activities for the PhD
student. The Spring School is organized in collaboration with a
megaproject management organizsation (in 2022, Femern A/S) that
supplement the academic teaching modules and provide access to
megaproject management subject matter experts and data for a
research engagement.
The 4 content elements of the PhD spring school are:
1) Preparation Module (20 hours): Articulation of a research
hypothesis motivating an empirical research engagement with a
megaproject management practitioner.
2) In-Person Module 1 (20 hours): Framing, Match-Making, Training
Day: Matching of research interests with megaproject management
practiioners. Presentation of industrial challenges. In-depth
teaching module on megaproject management theory and academic
research streams.
3) Project module (80 hours): Planning and execution of empirical
research engagement between PhD students and megaproject
practitioners
4) In-Person Module 2 (20 hours): Summary of findings, critical
presentation and discussion amongst participants, organizers and
megaproject managers. Academic in-depth lectures on megaproject
management publishing.
Litteraturhenvisninger
The following articles and books are required reading. Other
literature will be shared depending on specific student and project
work needs:
Joana Geraldi; Andrew Davies / Transforming Engineering Systems :
Learnings from Organising Megaprojects. In: Handbook of Engineering
Systems Design. ed. /Anja Maier; Josef Oehmen; Pieter E. Vermaas.
Cham : Springer 2021
Ting Wang, Albert P.C Chan, Qinghua He & Junyan Xu (2022)
Identifying the gaps in construction megaproject management
research: a bibliographic analysis, International Journal of
Construction Management, 22:9, 1585-1596
Thuesen, C., Kozine, I., Maier, A., & Oehmen, J. (2022).
Engineering Systems Interventions in Practice: Cases from
Healthcare and Transport. In A. Maier, J. Oehmen, & P. E.
Vermaas (Eds.), Handbook of Engineering Systems Design Springer
Wied, M., Oehmen, J., Welo, T. and Pikas, E. (2021), "Wrong,
but not failed? A study of unexpected events and project
performance in 21 engineering projects", International Journal
of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 14 No. 6, pp. 1290-1313
Sidst opdateret
29. juni, 2023
