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Mr Richard Hughes

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3451
Email: r.hughes@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.340  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-5648

Mr Richard Hughes is the Course Coordinator for Project Management and a Lecturer in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Project success and failure
  • Sustainable project management
  • Project performance audits

Biography

Richard joined ECU after working as a project manager and consultant in the UK and Australia. He is passionate about maintaining the quality of teaching offered to students. Richard is a registered project manager at certified practising project manager level. He is an experienced program and project manager with a background predominantly in the central and local government sectors. He specialises in policy creation, business IT, operating process reviews and business change initiatives.

Theme Two: Society and Culture; Project success and failure, Project governance, Project risk management, Sustainable project management, Project performance audits.

Theme Three: Nature and Built Environments; Sustainability through projects of energy, water, materials and resources.

  • Australian Institute of Project Management, Member
  • Project Management Institute, Member

Qualifications

  • Master of Project Management, Edith Cowan University, 2016.
  • Bachelor of Laws (Second Class Honours), England, 1994.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Kiani Mavi, R., Gengatharen, D., Kiani Mavi, N., Hughes, R., Campbell, A., Yates, R. (2021). Sustainability in Construction Projects: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability, 13(4), Article number 1932. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041932.

Conference Publications

  • Hughes, R., Gengatharen, D. (2018). Can performance audit data influence the success of small and medium sized government projects?. 2018 National Conference Academic Papers Australian Institute of Project Management (3-14). Australian Institute of Project Management.

Research Projects

  • Peak Performance? Project Management and the Australian Economy, Australian Institute of Project Management, Grant, 2018 ‑ 2020, $20,000.
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