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Abdulmaten Taroun

Lecturer in Business Systems (Project Management)

Abdulmaten Taroun

Abdulmaten is a lecturer in project management in the Business Systems Department of the University of Bedfordshire Business School. He is in the last stage of his doctoral program (PhD Business Administration) in the Decision and Cognitive Science Research Centre, Manchester Business School. Expected award date is July 2012. He is a member of the Business and Information Systems Research Centre (BISC), University of Bedfordshire, and member of Project Management Research Group in the Business Systems Department, University of Bedfordshire.

Abdulmaten holds a master degree, MSc. Project management, from Heriot-Watt University. He got it in December 2007. He also holds a BSc (Hon) in Civil Engineering, specialised in Construction project management. He got it with a top-of-class grade from Al-Baath University, Syria in August 2003.

Abdulmaten has a very good experience in academic and professional work. Before joining the University of Bedfordshire, he worked as a teaching assistant in Manchester Business School, Strathclyde Business School and the faculty of Civil Engineering in Al-Baath University in Syria. Between 2003 and 2006, Abdulmaten worked as a construction project manager in a private construction company before coming to the UK to continue his PG studies.

Currently, he is the first year manager of the BA(Hon) Business Management program in Bedford Campus and teaches Foundation of Business Management unit. He also teaches Quality and Risk Management unit in the MSc. Project Management program in Putteridge Burry campus. Abdulmaten is an employability fellow representing the Business Systems department the employability committee of the University of Bedfordshire.

 Teaching interests

  • Project management
  • Risk and value management
  • Decision making
  • Business management

Research interests and research supervision areas

  • Multi-criteria decision making
  • Decision making and risk analysis
  • Value and risk management
  • Project appraisal and feasibility studies
  • Project performance analysis
  • Total quality management
  • Sustainability and sustainable development
  • Public-Private Partnership (PPP)

 Publications

  • Taroun, A. and Yang, J.B.  (2013). “DSS for Construction Project Risk Analysis and Evaluation via Evidential Reasoning”. Working paper. Aimed at European Journal of Operational Research.
  • Taroun, A. and Yang, J.B. (2012), “A DST-based Approach for Project Evaluation in Construction Industry”. Submitted to Journal of Operational Research Society.
  • Taroun, A. (2012). “Rethinking Risk Assessment in Construction Management: A New Risk Model and a new Assessment Methodology”. Working Paper. Aimed at Construction Management and Economics.
  • Taroun, A. (2012), “On the Actual Practice of Risk Assessment in the UK Construction Project Management”. Working Paper. Aimed at International Journal of Project Management.
  • Taroun, A. (2012). “Measuring the Greys in Bid/No-bid Decision-making, not Only the Blacks and Whites”. Working Paper. Aimed at International Journal of Project Management.
  • Taroun, A. and Yang, J.B. (2011), “Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence: Potential Usage for Decision Making and Risk Analysis in Construction Project Management”, Journal of Built and Human Environment Review, Vol. 4 (1), 155-166.
  • Taroun, A., Yang, J.B. and Lowe, D. (2011), “Construction Risk Modelling and Assessment: Insights from a Literature Review”, Journal of Built and Human Environment Review, Vol. 4 (1), 87-97.
  • Taroun, A. (2010) “Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence in construction industry; applications in decision making and risk analysis” ARCOM doctoral research workshop (Decision-Making across Levels, Time and Space: Exploring Theories, Methods and Practices) The University of Manchester.

Contact details

Bedford campus
Polhill Avenue
Bedford, MK41 9EA

E: abdulmaten.taroun@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 793141

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