Karyne Ang is academically affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) and Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. She recently moved from her role as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UTS Robotics Institute on human-robot teams through a sociotechnical systems perspective. Her core research interest areas are inter-disciplinary in nature – project portfolio management, organizational learning, stakeholder value management and decision-making in complex environments. Karyne is a multi methods researcher with a curiosity for organizational development, learning & knowledge co-creation, collaboration and decision-making practices. She complements her research with her work in facilitating industry and stakeholder engagement, and has also conducted research projects pertaining to learning experiences in higher education across multiple faculties – Science, Law, Engineering and Information Technology - about student resilience (Law), constructivism, serious games, feedback management (IS/IT) and research on the impacts of prior knowledge on students' current and expected performance (Nursing/Allied Health Sciences). In the teaching realm, Karyne teaches and mentors postgraduate students to project manage their candidatures, and dabbles in project governance and leadership education. She was the Production Manager of the PMRP journal (Project Management Research and Practice). 

Karyne has a industry background in business, marketing and research, coaching, learning and development. Through her 15 years’ experience leading high performance teams in consumer insights research and brand management in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, Karyne developed and directed multiple client-based research project portfolios encompassing NPD, strategic brand management, consumer behaviour and market segmentation research project portfolios. Karyne holds a Master of Education (Organization Learning) from UTS and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing & IT) from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.

Her PhD research explored multi-stakeholder perspectives of value in project portfolios. This pragmatic combination of hands-on industry and academic experiences brings an interesting contribution to her research through practical and theoretical understanding of teams, projects, management and organizational issues. Her postdoctoral research explored sociotechnical systems in human robot teams

and addressed human-robot collaboration, communication, stakeholders and sociotechnical readiness in design and development of HRT systems.

Her research about multiple perspectives of value could contribute future opportunities for optimising relevant value constructs and multi-stakeholder relationships in multi-project and portfolios environments in different sectors. Karyne Ang has been awarded the UTS Research Excellence Scholarship for her PhD studies in project portfolio management at the School of Systems, Management and Leadership at FEIT.

Karyne’s research has been presented in several conferences in Warsaw, London and Paris, and has already been published in several journals. She was also a visiting researcher at Webster University in Vienna, Austria in 2016 and has recently been involved in megaproject research with Prof. P. Eskerod (Webster University, Vienna, Austria), and Prof. Per Svejvig (Aarhus University, Denmark).

She completed her PhD with the support of the UTS: Research Excellence Scholarships. These are offered each year to selected highly ranked commencing doctoral students. This comprises an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) plus a UTS top up.