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Personal profile
Personal Statement
After a career in the Aerospace industry where I occupied a number of increasingly senior roles within manufacturing, operations and project management I joined the University in 2005 and I’m currently a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Project management in the Department of Management Science within Strathclyde Business School. I predominantly teach post-graduate, post-experience students with much of my work being carried out in the area of executive education.
My research interests focus on how companies manage complex work both through the adoption of project and product management methodologies and the use of high value operational strategies. My research approach is to link theory to practice and aims to be of practical use to companies in their search for more efficient and effective ways of working. From a research supervision perspective I am keen to work with students who have an interest in exploring firms engaged in high value manufacturing and also firms utilising project-based organisaitonal structures. I am also active in knowledge transfer through engagement in consultancy projects and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
Expertise & Capabilities
Has expertise in:
- Project Planning
- Project Lifecycle Management
- Project Risk Management
- Operational Improvement
- Operations Strategy Generation
- Operational Performance Management
Academic / Professional qualifications
PhD - Management of Knowledge Workers
Masters Business Administration
Research Interests
I research in two linked areas. Within the field of project management I am interested in how companies adopt and utilise project management methodologies in a process of ‘projectification’ to build their capability to manage complex work. And within the field of operations management I am interested in what strategies engineering and manufacturing companies adopt to move up the value chain in order to engage in more complex work.
Teaching Interests
I am currently Director of Teaching and Learning within the Department of Strategy and Organisation. In my own teaching I deliver modules on Operations Management and Project Management within post-graduate MSc and MBA programs including a number of executive and corporate programs. I also teach on a number of short courses delivered for industry audiences.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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KTP - Fix Visual Effects Limited. New technologies to make the production pipeline more efficient from end to end
Paton, S. (Principal Investigator) & Barlow, E. (Co-investigator)
Fix Visual Effects Ltd, Innovate UK
1/11/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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Student Excellence Award (SEA) - £119,613 (2024-27)
Ates, A. (Principal Investigator) & Paton, S. (Co-investigator)
1/10/24 → 1/10/27
Project: Internally funded project
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Revisiting co-opetition dynamics and key success factors via an intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive mapping approach
Konyalioglu, A. K., Ates, A. & Paton, S., 5 Sept 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Prioritising critical success factors in coopetition using an integrated spherical fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (SF-AHP) approach and document coding
Konyalioglu, A. K., Ates, A. & Paton, S., 25 Jun 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Prizes
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Designing Organisations for Performance
Paton, S. (Speaker)
22 Sept 2021Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk