Impact Cases

Abstract: Making links between university research and policy and practice is increasingly important. With the REF2014 approaching, all universities are keen to demonstrate how their research impacts upon society, industry and the economy. In this presentation, Professor Michael Bourlakis will highlight the exciting BBS research that has been ‘making an impact’ beyond academia and will discuss possible avenues to increase the impact of our work in the future.

Biography: Professor Michael Bourlakis holds the Chair in Supply Chain Management at Brunel Business School. Michael has produced more than 140 publications and his papers have appeared in leading supply chain management, marketing and business journals such as, inter alia, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications, International Journal of Logistics Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Environment & Planning D, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has received funding from various bodies including the European Union, EPSRC, Food Standards Agency (UK), Regional Development Agencies (UK). Michael is on the Editorial Board of six journals, he is a member of the European Technology Platform (Food for Life, European Union) and the Academic Committee of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (UK). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications, a leading logistics journal and also the "Impact Champion" at Brunel Business School. Finally, he is a key member of the research team at Brunel University that was awarded recently £12 million from EPSRC to work on a project entitled "Sustainable Energy Use in Food Supply Chains".

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