Dr Manish Unhale
Senior Lecturer | Business HRM and Marketing - Academic
Senior Lecturer
Department of Business Entrepreneurship & Finance , Royal Docks School of Business and Law
Manish is an academic with rich theoretical and administrative experience at the national and international levels. He has assumed various leadership roles and responsibilities in a culturally diverse environment. He has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including mature students in e-learning programmes. He has been in academia for 20 years, specialising in Operations & SCM and Project Management. He has been a project leader in obtaining APM accreditation for the MSc IBM programme. He had been a programme leader for MSc Project Management.
Areas Of Interest
Research Interests:
My primary research interests are in supply chain collaborative practices, waste management in SCM and project management and green manufacturing practices in the SME context.
Teaching Interests:
My teaching interests are in operations and supply chain management, project management, statistics and value chain management.
Outside of academia, I am interested in travelling, gardening, cooking and yoga.
OVERVIEW
I lead research in the areas of supply chain networks and collaborative practices in SMEs. This includes work with novel datasets of Indian, Chinese and UK economy, projects with local industry, as well as other cross-country and cross-region comparative studies. My fieldwork experience covers manufacturing, automotive, and pharmaceutical sectors. I am also looking to lead inter-disciplinary projects with finance, HR and other areas for research issues such as SC costing, sustainability auditing, risk aspects in SC and human dimensions in service chains. I have supervised various projects for MBA, MSc, BSc and BA programmes.
External roles
Reviewed papers for AoM, EURAM and BAM conferences.
CURRENT RESEARCH
The recent and future work is planned to cover research issues of the roles and responsibilities of female entrepreneurs in SMEs and collaborations; risk and sustainability issues in collaboration and SMEs; and greener issues in the project environment, with more emphasis on construction projects.
Working paper:
Social media for improving students' experience: a study of East London's students.
Most recent research
The core research focus is on collaborations in a low-volume context, with a particular emphasis on supply chains in small and medium-sized enterprises. The work examined research issues of vertical and horizontal networks, essential requirements of collaborative relationships, the effectiveness of different collaborative strategies, and major problems and benefits associated with collaborations.
MODULES
Current Teaching Modules:
- SG7004 Global Projects in Practice
- MK7041 Managing Sustainable Global Value Chains
- SG5010 Project Management
- SG5010 Operations and Supply Chain Management
- SG7008 Fundamentals of Project Management
- SG7009 Applied Project Management
- MK748 Project & Programme Management
- Dissertation Supervision for undergraduate and postgraduate students
Previous Teaching Modules:
- SG5007 Project Management
- SG5009 Project Management and Organisation Success
- SG5005 Managing Sustainable Operations
- SG5001 Managing Sustainable Operations and Projects
- SG4001 Business and Financial Environment
- HR7227 Global Management of People and Projects
- FNM116 International Business Analysis & Research
- SGM232 International HRM and Project Management
- FNM216 Strategic Management of Enterprise Risk
- FM214 Managing Operational Risk
- SGM213 Managing Successful Projects.
PUBLICATIONS
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