Claire Hannibal

Claire Hannibal (née Moxham) is Professor of Operations Management at Liverpool Business School.

Claire’s overarching research focus is on process improvement in organisations and supply chains. She has a particular interest in the public and voluntary sectors and recent projects have examined humanitarian logics, the role of labelling in assuring the social sustainability of multi-tier supply chains and strategies for implementing information sharing to manage supply chain risk.

Claire has published widely on the topic of operations and supply chain process improvement and her research features in the International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal and Journal of Business Research. In 2022 she won the Professor Ian Beardwell Prize awarded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development for the best applied research paper.

Prior to joining Liverpool John Moores University she has held Faculty positions at Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Wolverhampton, University of Liverpool, University of Bradford and University of Manchester. Prior to joining academia in 2003, Claire worked for 3 years in Ethiopia with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and has held managerial positions in manufacturing, textile processing and retail.

Claire welcomes enquiries from PhD students with complementary research interests.

Degrees

• 2006, University of Manchester, UK, PhD
• 2006, UMIST, UK, Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• 2000, UMIST, UK, MPhil
• 1997, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, MSc Design and Manufacture
• 1995, University of Salford, UK, BEng (Hons) Manufacturing Management