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Maria Kapsali Ph.D

Address: Nidd 012, Hull University Business School, Cottingham Road, HU6 7RX, Hull UK Tel.: 0044 01482347598 email: M.Kapsali@hull.ac.uk Web site: http://se.linkedin.com/in/mariakapsali

Research since 2002 experience in funded research projects - as a research assistant, visiting researcher, research associate, research fellow (with own budget) and supervisor

Problematique (focus) Analysis of relational and structural processes in operations and

Conceptual foci Flexibility, complexity, uncertainty & relationality in operations and projects e.g. contracts, partnerships, capabilities, emergent processes

Theoretical basis Systems thinking, complex socio-cultural systems

Methods Retroduction and mixed designs in multiple cases, narrative analysis in combination with QCA, SNA and other pattern matching methods

Context Healthcare and cultural/creative consortia and programs (public-private)

Delivery since 2002 (teaching-administration-consultancy)

Teaching Project Management, Research Methods, Operations Management, Corporate Entrepreneurship, IS Strategy.- Bachelor, MSc. module leader & Ph.D supervisor

Administration Experience in various University roles as Faculty widening participation assistant, pastoral tutor & society administrator (6 years) program leadership (2 years) and Faculty Diversity & Equality Champion (assisting with Athena Swan - 1 year)

Consulted Product development project (2 years, 2009-2011)

Education

August 2016 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2014 – 2016 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice University of Hull Dissertation: THE FUTURE OF PEDAGOGY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVE

2002 – 2008 Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management (A2 minimum editorial corrections) Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Thesis: “EUROPEAN POLICY AND OPERATIONAL CHANGE“

2001 – 2002 MSc. in Operations Management University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Dissertation: “PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN MARINE OPERATIONS”

2000 – 2001 BA Honours in Business (1st Class) De Montfort University Business School Dissertation: “EUROPEAN DEEPENING AND BUSINESS STRUCTURE”

1998 – 2000 BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business (Distinction) Highbury College Portsmouth Received the Best Student Award for the Year 2000

Employment

2014 – Assistant Professor in Management Systems (specializing in Project Management) Hull University Business School, UK

2014 – 2016 Managing Editor at De Gruyter Open Business & Management Books

2014 – 2015 Research Associate at Umeå University - Umeå Capital of Culture research project

2011 – 2014 Tore Browaldh Research Fellow & Lecturer in Projects and Innovation Networks Umeå University School of Business and Economics, Sweden

2009 – 2011 Research Associate (post-doc) Imperial College Business School

2002 – 2009 Research Assistant, Seminar Leader, Widening Participation Officer, Residential Tutor University of Manchester

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1) Employment in research projects and grants 2014 – 2015 Associate researcher in the STRADOS project (funded by Riksbanken)

Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Umeå Universitet, Sweden Data analysis from the Umeå European Capital of Culture 2014 project with other PIN members. Dissemination of results and book project (see work in progress publications)

2011 – 2014 Tore Browaldh fellowship in Projects and Innovation Networks (PIN) (funded by Handelsbanken) Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Umeå Universitet, Sweden

Dissemination of results from previous research (pp. 3 and 4) and new project data collection

2009 – 2011 Research Associate (2 projects funded by EPSRC), Imperial College Business School

1. HaCIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre) 2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group

1. The "Simulation Modelling in Healthcare planning" project explores the use of simulation models at projects in healthcare funded by DoH, and it is a joint HaCIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre) and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship group in Imperial College London. I investigate simulation models as boundary artefacts in interdisciplinary healthcare projects.

2. The “DOME” (Design-Out Medical Error) is a £1.6m EPSRC funded project that links product designers from Royal College of Art, with clinicians from St Mary's Hospital and me from Imperial College Business School. The aim is to ‘design-out’ medical error from five hospital surgery ward processes (hand washing, medication, handover, infection control and vital signs monitoring) at St Mary's Hospital. I study the risk factors in these processes and then compare similar factors and safety approaches in analogous manufacturing processes in 5 companies – the analysis is a consultation to the designers who create a range of products to overcome operational deviation.

2008 – 2009 Researcher, Manchester Business School, Innovation Management and Policy Division

Dissemination of PhD results – conferences, proposals and papers

2008 Ph.D Thesis Project - Won studentship, Manchester Business School

“European Policy and Operational Change” doctoral project: A2 Minimum (editorial) corrections The governance mechanisms and systemic relationality in 17 innovation projects - European Union Public Health and Information Society Framework Programmes. Theoretical triangulation combined with comparative qualitative analysis of multiple case studies, within-case and across-case.

2006 Survey Research Assistant

ProFaNE School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Manchester University

The “Socio-economic and ethnic differences in Fall-related mortality, morbidity, health care seeking behaviour and provision of services” project in ProFaNE. In response to DoH policy initiatives the research team led a preventative medicine survey investigation into socioeconomic and ethnic variations in falls and service provision with the Universities of Southampton and Bristol.

2005 Literature Review Researcher, Manchester Business School

“Managerial Decision Making” – OB literature review

2001 – 2002 MSc. in Operations Management - dissertation (UMIST)

The “Project Management in Marine Operations” dissertation where I investigated the usefulness of applying project management planning methods in marine scheduling operations by measuring the variability in voyage schedules and quality procedures.

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Research Skills: methods, dissemination

Achievements – Professional activities

Awards: 2012 Outstanding Reviewer - the Emerald Literati Network, Emerald Publishing Group Ltd

2012 Nominated for the Criticos Book Prize

2002 Won competitive PhD studentship from Manchester School of Management, UMIST

2000 Received the Best Student Award for the Year 2000 (Highbury College, Portsmouth)

Memberships: Association for Project Management, SCiO, ISSS, UKSS, Centre for Systems Studies

Reviewer: Research Policy, Technovation, International Journal of Project Management, Construction Management and Economics, Project Management Journal, Journal of Strategy and Management, Academy of Management, Health Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Committee of International Conference on Project Management

Further professional-methodological training

February 2014 Vienna European Consortium for Political Research ECPR, Winter School in Methods and Techniques Course on Advanced Issues in Set-Theoretic Methods – Qualitative Comparative Analysis

September 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant Course – pedagogy in Enquiry Based Learning Manchester Staff Training and Development Unit, Manchester Business School

April 2005 Bradford University of Bradford, continuing education certificate of attendance Course in Project Management of EU funded projects

Publications

Google Scholar Research Gate

Citation indices

Citations 131 h-index 4 i10-index 2

Published peer reviewed papers

Kapsali, M., 2013. Equifinality in Project Management exploring causal complexity in projects. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 30(1), 2-14. (cited 5 times)

Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., 2012. Book Review: ’Bredin Karin and Söderlund Jonas, 2010. 'Human Resource Management in

Project-Based Organizations - The HR Quadriad Framework'. Scandinavian Journal of Management. 28: 197-198. (100 reads RG)

Kapsali, M., 2011. How to implement innovation policies through projects successfully. Technovation. 31(12):615-626.

(cited 19 times) Kapsali, M., 2011. Systems Thinking in Innovation Project Management: a match that works. International Journal of Project

Management, 29(4): 396-407. (cited 88 times) Kapsali, M., 2010. Relating in project networks in Innovation Systems. DRUID: Opening Up Innovation: Strategy,

Organization and Innovation. find in: http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/viewabstract.php?id=501897&cf=43 (cited 3 times) (cited 3 times)

Kapsali, M., 2009. Comparing the application of Closed and Open Systems approaches in innovation project management.

The Systemist. Issue 33: 31-46. (900 reads RG)

Overview stats 10.45

Citations 66 Publication views 1,753

Publication downloads 1,319

I write up case studies, scientific publications, proposals, evaluation reports, material to communicate to a variety of people (scientists, designers, managers, academics, teachers, students)

I conduct different types of qualitative analysis: content, thematic, QCA, SNA, process tracing

I conduct on-site visits, focus groups, interviews, questionnaire design and online data collection

Retroduction, Critical Realism, methods triangulation, Systems & Process Methods

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BOOKS (published)

Wåhlin, N., Kapsali, M., Blomquist, T., Näsholm, M., (eds.) Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth: Co-Creating a

European Capital of Culture. Edward Elgar Pub Ltd, in production. Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., (eds) 2011. Business and management practices in Greece - A comparative context. Palgrave

Macmillan, U.K. Nominated for the Criticos Prize in 2012

Book chapters (published)

Kapsali, M., 2015. Innovating research methods to understand flexibility and innovation in complex projects. In: Andreas

Wald, Reinhard Wagner, Christoph Schneider, Michael Gschwendtner (eds) Advanced Project Management Volume 4:

Flexibility and Innovative Capacity. Germany: GPM Deutche Gesellschaft fur projektmanagement.

Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., 2014. Chapter 5: The historical trajectory of a peripheral National Business System, in Westwood,

R., Jack, G., Khan, R.F., Frenkel, M., (eds.). Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies, US: Palgrave

Macmillan, pp. 100-120.

Bayer, S.C., Bolt, T., Brailsford, S. and Kapsali, M. 2014. Chapter 7: Models as interfaces, in Brailsford, S., Churilov, L., and

Dangerfield, B. (eds.). Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making.

Chichester, UK: Wiley & Sons, pp. 125-139.

Kapsali, M, Butler, J., 2011. Chapter 1 Politics: history and economy through political developments. in Kapsali, M.,

Prouska, R., (eds.) 2011. Business and management practices in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan.

Kapsali, M., 2011. Chapter 5 Innovation: the national innovation system. in Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., (eds.) 2011. Business

and management practices in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan.

Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., Chapter 14: The business system and management practices in Greece. in Kapsali, M., Prouska,

R., (eds.). Business and management practices in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan.

Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., Chapter 15: Comparing systems and practices: peripheral countries vs. the UK. In Kapsali, M.,

Prouska, R., (eds.) 2011. Business and management practices in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan

Kapsali, M., Prouska, R., Chapter 16: Suggestions for more research on the system and practices in Greece. In Kapsali, M.,

Prouska, R., (eds.). 2011. Business and management practices in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan.

Conferences

2016 “The future pedagogy in Project Management: The practitioner pedagogy” Chartered ABS’ Learning, Teaching & Student Experience, (26 & 27 April) Aston University

2015 “Experimental methods to study temporal structuring in projects experimentation and suggestions” &

“Materializing the Capital of Culture through boundary spaces” in APROS EGOS (9-11 December) Sydney

2015 “Innovating research methods to understand flexibility in complex projects”

“Project Marketing & Social Network Analysis” and

“Complex, not Complicated: exploring emergent project structure” in ISSS (2-7 August) Berlin

2015 “Measuring entrepreneurial activity in the European Capital of Culture using QCA” in (13-16 July) Valencia

2015 “Project Contracting in the culture industry” in IRNOP (20-24 June) London

2014 “The Systemic Contract: Matching Rules to Exchange Transactions” in UKSS, (11-13 September) Hull

2014 “Contracting for co-creation” International Workshop on Performance-Based Contracting (7-8 July) Munich

2014 “Synthesis of configuration and process methods to study temporal structuring in projects” Sub-theme 37: Studying Project-based Organizing through a Temporal Lens in EGOS, (3-5 July) Rotterdam

2013 “The Systemic Contract to Manage Complexity: Bridging Classical and Relational Contracting Theories” in the Academy of Management, (9 - 13 August) in Orlando

2013 “Relational capabilities in projects”: Temporary and Project-Based Organizing in EGOS, (4 - 6 July) Montréal

2013 “Strategizing through urban spaces: Materializing a capital of culture” Sub-theme 05: Strategizing Activity and Practice:

Connecting the Material to the Social in EGOS, (4 - 6 July) Montréal

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2013 “The case of a self-emerging cultural community” 8th Organization Studies Summer Workshop: Organization Studies Workshop in the Day to Day Life of Cultures and Communities, (23 - 25 May) Mykonos

2013 “The Systemic Contract: Measuring how effective contract rules are in organizing complex projects” Project Management Track in EUROMA, (7 - 12 June) Dublin

2013 “Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to measure contract rules in complex project operations” Empirical Research in Operations Management in POMS, (4 - 6 May) Denver

2013 “Complex, not Complicated: Exploring complex project structure” in IRNOP, (17 -19 June) Oslo

2012 "The materialization of simulation artifacts in group model design" in EGOS, (4-7 July) Helsinki, Finland

2012 "Contractual governance of complex projects" in EGOS, (4 - 7 July) Helsinki

2012 "Relational Capabilities in Projects" in EURAM, (5 - 8 June) Rotterdam

2011 “Business System and Management practices-book poster”, UK Systems Society International Conference, (1-2 September) St Anne’s College Oxford

2011 "Equifinality in project management" in ISSS, (17 - 22 July) Hull

2011 "MOS in national business systems: the historical trajectory of hybridization of organizational theory and practice at the European periphery" in EGOS, (7 - 9 July) Gothenburg

2011 "Patient safety and Operational Complexity: a systemic approach" in EUROMA, (3 - 5 July) Cambridge

2011 "Connecting the knots: simulation as a boundary object in the organization of ‘loose’ interdisciplinary projects" in EURAM, (1 - 4 June) Tallinn, Estonia

2011 "Improving patient safety: how to use service modularity in healthcare processes to manage systemic errors" in POMS, (29April – 2 May) Reno, Nevada

2010 “The boundary role of simulation models and the influence of the modelling approach” BAM 2010, Organizational Studies Track (14-16 September) Sheffield

2010 “The simulation model as an object between boundaries“ HaCIRIC Conference (22-24 September) Edinburgh

2010 "Relating in project networks and innovation systems" DRUID (16-18 June) London

2010 “Relating as a Dynamic Capability in Innovation Projects” EURAM (19-22 May) Rome

2010 “Systems Thinking in Innovation Project Management” EURAM (19-22 May) Rome

2010 “Policy design and healthcare innovation projects” European Union Working Conference Health Services Research in Europe (7-9 April) the Hague

2009 “Comparing the application of Closed and Open Systems approaches in innovation project management”, UK Systems Society International Conference, (1-2 September) St Anne’s College Oxford

2009 ‘‘The Role of Policy-project Relations in Technology Deployment: A Comparison of Two Case Studies’’ HaCIRIC International Conference, (7-9 April) Brighton

2007 ‘’Doing Research in European Projects-a methodological approach’’ Sponsored by ESRC at the Northern Doctoral Training Network, Doctoral Colloquium, University of York

2006 “Project Management of EU Healthcare Related Innovation Projects” Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) Conference on Innovation in Services, Manchester

2005 “European Policy and Operational Change” 3rd International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Health INEAG, (7-9 July) Samos

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2) Teaching

2014 – 2016 Lecturer, Module Leader and Supervisor Hull Business School, Management Systems

Supervision: 1 Ph.D., 8 Master’s theses, 5 MBA theses, 2 UG dissertations

Programme Leader: MSc. Project Management

Module Leadership and delivery:

MBA Complex Project Management MBA Level 7 (130 hrs x2= 260 hrs)

MBA Operations Management MBA Level 7 (130 hrs)

Systems Thinking & Practice MSc Level 7 (100 hrs)

Business Project Management MSc Level 7 (75 hrs)

Business Project Management UG Level 5 (110 hrs)

Research Methods UG Level 5 (105 hrs)

Managing Organizational Resources (Operations) Foundation Level (210 hrs)

2011 – 2014 Lecturer in Undergraduate and Master’s Courses Umeå Universitet (360 hrs p/a)

Supervision: 2 Master’s theses, 9 UG dissertations

Module Leadership and delivery:

Corporate Entrepreneurship Master’s Level (88 students 90 hrs)

Operations Management Master’s Level (30 students 90 hrs)

Research Methods Master’s Level (144 students 80 hrs)

Project Management Master’s Level (89 students 90 hrs)

2011 Guest Lecturer HRM 4710: Thinking about ‘triangulation’ and other issues of mixing methods. Middlesex Business School London (MSc and MPhil students, 3hs)

2011 Guest Lecturer HRM 3011: Network organisations and Cross-Organisational Learning. Middlesex Business School London (3rd year UG, 3hs)

2006 – 2008 Undergraduate Widening Participation Assistant - Bursary Holder

Managed Familiarization Visits and Summer Schools

Lectures and interactive workshops using Enquiry Based Learning techniques in:

Marketing, Visual Brand Recognition, Operations Management, Project Management and Strategy

2005 – 2006 Seminar Leader, Manchester Business School, Accounting and Finance Division

“Introduction to Information Systems” (UG levels: 1, 2, 3, 4: 250 students 4 hrs/w)

2003 – 2004 Foreign Language Teacher, the International Society of Manchester (2 hrs/w)

3) Administration and Volunteering

2015 - HUBS Equality and Diversity Champion – developing objectives for School policy and future Athena-Swan accreditation (40 hrs)

2015 - Staff training in Project Management tools and methods, PMCN, University of Hull

2014 – Programme Development Curriculum 2016: MSc Project Management

2014 – Coordinator Library and Learning Resources (100 hrs) Hull Business School

2002 – 2008 Residential Tutor Grosvenor Halls of Residence, University of Manchester

2004 – 2006 Communications Officer Manchester University Doctoral Students’ Association