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Dr. Sara Rye

Biography

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. 
PhD student can  arrange your Supervision meeting via Virtual Office.

Research

  • Humanitarian Logistics
  • Risk Management
  • Crisis Management
  • Disaster Response
  • Project Management
  • Game-based Learning
  • Simulation Games
  • Serious Games

Contract researchers

Teaching

Risk Management, Logistics, OR, Humanitarian response, Crisis Management, Project Management

Professional activities

  • National Teaching Fellow Nominee (1 March 2023)
  • Best Paper Award ICDPST 2019:For the paper entitled: Predicting the Human Impact of Natural Onset Disasters Using Pattern R (1 September 2019)
  • Best Paper Award in Doctoral Symposium 2014 March 2014 (1 March 2014)
  • ISEing PhD travel award (1 February 2014)
  • International Merit Award (1 December 2010)

  • Brunel Business School - PhD in Management studiesThesis Titled: PREdictive model for DISaster response configuration (An introduction to PREDIS decision platform)

  • Middlesex University - MSc in Business research methods

  • Simulation and Gaming - REVIEWER
  • Resource - REVIEWER
  • Disasters - REVIEWER
  • International Journal of Film and Media Arts - SERIESEDITOR

Publications

  • Game and role play in teaching project management

    Hasani, S. (2019)

  • The state of the art of risk management in projects

    The state of the art of risk management in projects Rye, S. (2023). The state of the art of risk management in projects. Project journal . Spring, p. 12. (2023) Project Journal. Spring

  • The Challenges and Opportunities of Analogue Game-Based Learning.

    Medeisiene, R. A., Sciukauske, I., Karasa, D., Maratou, V., Chaliampalias, R., Moore, J. D., Abdullahi, Y., Rye, S., Sousa, C., Luz, F., Barroso, I., Neves, P. P. and & Fonseca, M. (2021)