Beverly joined the Department in September 2007. Previously she worked as a lecturer at the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow as a research assistant. She is Editor of Supply Chain Management: An International Journal and serves on the Editorial Board for a number of journals including European Management Journal and International Journal of Operations and Production Management. She is co-editor of a forthcoming (October 2008), special issue for International Business Review, titled "Management Theory and Practice: Bridging the Gap through Multidisciplinary Lenses."
She is also involved in external management development and advised Conoco (UK) Limited and BP in the development of their strategy for an integrated logistics cell in the Southern North Sea, designed workforce communications brochure and assisted with an internal communications programme. And developed, coordinated and delivered a one day team building workshops for Shell Expro (UK) Limited and contractor organisations.
Beverly is currently Director of the Department's highly-successful postgraduate programmes.
Research Interests
Her research interests are in the field of supply chain management and include buyer/ supplier relationships, supplier development, collaboration, alliance formation, implementation and dissolution.Current research has been concerned with investigating SMEs and their relations with customers and retailers. Recently, I have been interested in the use of social network techniques to better understand these complex relations. This has lead to incorporation of this technique in a project investigating implementation of shelf-ready packaging and its impact on the supply chain
Current Projects
- The impact of innovative packaging solutions on supply chain flow . Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, seed corn fund.
- The impact of Grocery retailer local sourcing programmes on the SME supplier . Carnegie Fund.
- The life cycle of concepts: an exploratory study of the historical development of organisational buying behaviour . Faculty Research Grant .
- Communication and information diffusion: A Network Analysis of an International Humanitarian Aid Agency. Emerald Literati Research Fund. Award winner. (with Mrs Suzanne Horne).
- FoodTechnologies@strathclyde: event and activities programme 2012-2013 (Principal investigator)
- Glasgow school days remembered (Co-investigator)
- Workshop on 'Nostalgia' (Co-investigator)
- ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011 (Co-investigator)
- ESRC Festival of Social Science 2010 (Co-investigator)
- Nostalgia in the Twenty-First Century (Co-investigator)
- Seed Corn grant from CILT transfered from Sterling (Principal investigator)
