Professor Lesley Walls

Management Science

Prizes and awards

IEC 1906 Award
Recipient
2015
KTP Best of the Best Award Finalist for KTP with Scottish Water and Edinburgh University
Recipient
2014
Sage Best Paper Prize Journal of Risk and Reliability
Recipient
2011
KTP Award with Scottish Water and University of Edinburgh
Recipient
2010
Elected Fellow of the UK Safety and Reliability Society
Recipient
2008
Oustanding Paper Prize IEEE Engineering Management Conference, Singapore - joint work with Alstom Power, Switzerland
Recipient
2008

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Publications

Reliability modelling of infrastructure load-sharing systems with workload adjustment
Sun Qiuzhuang , Ye Zhi-Sheng, Revie Matthew, Walls Lesley
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, pp. 1-27 (2019)
Supplier quality improvement : the value of information under uncertainty
Quigley John, Walls Lesley, Demirel Güven, McCarthy Bart, Parsa Mahdi
European Journal of Operational Research Vol 264, pp. 932-947 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.05.044
A methodology for constructing subjective probability distributions with data
Quigley John, Walls Lesley
Elicitation (2017) (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65052-4
Learning from mixed OR method practice : the NINES case study
Howick Susan, Ackermann Fran, Walls Lesley, Quigley John, Houghton Tom
Omega Vol 69, pp. 70-81 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2016.08.003
What is the value of a standard?
Revie M, Bedford T, Walls L, Shimell J, Baldwin T
Risk, Reliability and Safety (2016)
Risk analysis of supply : comparative performance and short-term prediction
Walls L, Quigley J, Parsa M, Comrie E
Risk, Reliability and Safety European Safety and Reliability Conference 2016 (2016)

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Professional activities

European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2016
Chair
2016
European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2013
Keynote/plenary speaker
2013
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) (External organisation)
Member
2013
International Conference on Quality and Reliability
Keynote/plenary speaker
2011
International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability
Keynote/plenary speaker
2011
Consultancy with Doosan Babcock Power Systems
Advisor
2010

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Projects

TIC LCPE Repowering Hydro Plants - a Decision Support Tool
Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
Towards Game-changer Service Operation Vessels for Offshore Windfarms (NEXUS) H2020-BG-2016-2017
Vassalos, Dracos (Principal Investigator) Bedford, Tim (Co-investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Bujorianu, Luminita (Co-investigator) Lazakis, Iraklis (Co-investigator) McMillan, David (Co-investigator) Puisa, Romanas (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020
PhD: Capability Risk and Reliability Assessment of Technology Innovations
Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2020
ERDF Atlantic Area Programme 2014-2020 IN. 4.0 Project
Ates, Aylin (Co-investigator) Sminia, Harry (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020
Data Analytics and Structured Expert Judgement: Developing a Framework for Modelling
Revie, Matthew (Principal Investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2019
KTP-Scottish Water
Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Arulselvan, Ashwin (Co-investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator)
08-Jan-2016 - 07-Jan-2018

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