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Prof David Bryde

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: D.J.Bryde@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 4757

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David Bryde is Professor of Project Management in the Faculty of Culture and Society, Liverpool John Moores University. Professor Bryde is particularly interested in relational/psycho-social aspects of project operations, with a focus on understanding how different members of the supply chain/ network work together effectively and efficiently to deliver beneficial outcomes. A major application of his research is in improving effectiveness in the management of clinical research projects.

He is currently leading on a sponsored research project looking at digital project management innovations, with a specific focus on the implementation of digital parallel payment accounts (DiPPAs) in the infrastructure and construction industry sectors.

He was awarded Visiting Professor/Scientist at the Department of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, through the Regione Autonoma della Sardegna 2023/4 Visiting Professor Programme.

He was the Lead Project Coordinator for the EU Marie Sklodowska Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Horizon 2020 Work Programme “Being Lean and Seen: meeting the challenges of delivering projects successfully in the 21st century”. This was a four-year project, completed in 2023, involving nine academic and non-academic partners from the UK, Germany and Malaysia.

He was also the Principal Investigator on a project, funded by the Association of Project Management (APM), which investigated relational aspects in the management of outsourced projects, which led to the development of The CURED Framework for managing relational risk.
Other APM-funded projects he was recently involved in investigated 1) the coping strategies adopted by project managers to deal with difficult stakeholders and 2) how the social networks of staff at director levels in project intensive companies influences their performance in meeting environmental-related goals
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He has been leading on the faculty’s Knowledge Transfer initiatives, including Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and on the establishment of international collaborative partnerships and links for the faculty’s DBA doctoral programmes. He was also the UoA Coordinator for the institution’s submission to Business and Management Studies in REF2021.

Professor Bryde is widely published, with in excess of 100 journal papers, research monographs, book chapters, conference presentations, invited keynote speeches/guest lectures/presentations, expert interviews and articles. He has supervised in excess of 30 doctoral students to successful completion and has examined numerous PhD/DBAs as an external and an internal examiner at both UK and non-UK Higher Education Institutes.

He has a long record of accomplishment of working with companies to develop their project management processes and of working collaboratively with the practitioner community to undertake research and consultancy.

Degrees

1999, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD Project Management
1989, Bradford University, United Kingdom, MSc Computing
1982, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, BSc (Hons) Management Sciences

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