Moheeb Abualqumboz

I joined the University of Salford in 2019 as a Lecturer in Project Management. Before that, I worked in other different universities. I worked as a lecturer in Project Management at the University of Huddersfield from 2015 until 2019. I worked as an Associate Lecturer at Leeds Business School teaching Project Management, Global Supply Chain and Strategy subjects for both undergrad and postgrad from 2014 until 2015. I worked as a teaching graduate assistant from 2010 until 2014 at University of Manchester teaching Project Management subjects for Postgrad.

I obtained PhD in Project Management from the University of Manchester. I previously studied MSc in Construction Management at the Islamic University of Gaza in Palestine and obtained BSc in Civil Engineering from Near East University in Northern Cyprus (transferred from Middle East Technical University in Turkey). My experience in industry is centred on project management in construction industry as I worked for several years as a project manager for multi million construction projects and a project management consultant for several organisations. I was the director of Project Management Department at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2008 – 2010

TEACHING

I taught broad range of subjects in the field of project management and operations management including Project Management, Operations Management, Purchasing and Supply, Global Supply Chain Management, Advanced Project and Risk Management, and Managing Humanitarian Aid Projects

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests revolve around construction management and sociological perspectives within project management context.

QUALIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Association of Project Management (APM), UK, 2015 – Present
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK, 2016 – Present.
• PhD Management of Projects, University of Manchester (2015)
• MSc Construction Management, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine (2008)
• BSc Civil Engineering, Near East University, Cyprus (2002)

PUBLICATIONS

• Qazi, M, Abualqumboz, M., (2019) Understanding Competitiveness through life experiences – A strategy-as-practice approach. In: British Academy of Management (BAM2019), Birmingham, UK.
• Abualqumboz, M. (2018) ‘The Pendulum Effect: How Learning Takes Place in Networks of Project Based Organisations. In: 34th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP2018), 4th – 7th September 2018, Marseille, France
• Abualqumboz, M, (2018) How Brexit puts the UK at risk of more collapses like Carillion, The Conversation, January 2018
• Abualqumboz, M., Reid, I., (2017) Benchmarking successful projects in Public-Private-Partnerships (3P): Lessons Learnt from London Olympics, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS2017), May 5 – 8, 2017, Seattle, USA.
• Abualqumboz, M., Reid, I., Papalexi, M. and Bamford, D. (2017) ‘Can knowledge be retained in organisational networks?’. In: ECKM2017 - European Conference on Knowledge Management, 7-8 September 2017, Barcelona
• Reid, I., Bamford, D., Bamford, J., Papalexi, M., Dehe, B. and Abualqumboz, M. (2016) ‘Professional Service Operations Management: sustaining the discipline?’. In: 23rd EurOMA Conference, 17th - 22nd June 2016, Trondheim, Norway , pp. 1-10
• Abualqumboz, M. and Chan, PW. (2016) ‘Learning to give in a network context: applying theories of the gift to examine reciprocal exchanges in learning networks’. In: 23rd EurOMA 2016, 17th - 22nd June 2016, Trondheim, Norway
• Abu Alqumboz M and Chan PW (2014), ‘To reciprocate or not to reciprocate: Exploring temporal qualities in reciprocal exchanges in networks, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• Abu Alqumboz M and Chan PW (2013), ‘Inter-organisational learning in project based organisations Perspectives on reciprocity’, British Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK.
• Abu Alqumboz M and Chan PW (2013) ‘What do networks do to work: the agential role of network’, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Montreal, Canada.
• Enshassi A, Choudhry RM, Abu Alqumboz M (2009a) Quality and safety in the construction industry in Palestine. Revista ingeniería de construcción (Journal of Construction Engineering) 24: 49-78.
• Enshassi A, Choudhry RM, Abu Alqumboz M (2009b). Safety and Productivity in the Construction Industry, Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, 27(3), 139-155.
• Enshassi, A and Abu Alqumboz, M (2006), ‘Behavior of workers towards safety in construction projects in the Gaza Strip’, The International Conference on Global Unity for Safety and Health in CIB W99 Proceedings, Ed. D. Fang, R. Choudhry and J. Hinze, Tsingua University, Beijing, China, pp. 514-521.
• Mushtaha ES, Noguchi T and Abu Alqumboz M (2005), Systematical Evaluation of Housing planning and Design "Gaza Case", Fifth China Urban residential Seminar, November 24, 2005