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ProfShankar Sankaran

Professor

Discipline of Project Management

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  • Professor
    Discipline of Project Management
  • +61295148882 (Work)
  • University Of Technology Sydney, School of the Built Environment, City Campus, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia
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TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

My approach to teaching is to make theoretical principles relevant to practice by inviting practitioners with the necessary expertise to co-teach with me. Potential students are made aware of my teaching philosophy and methods in the course descriptions. I have developed and teach the following subjects in the Master of Project Management Course

Organizational Project Management
Systems Thinking for Managers
Leading Projects in Organizations
Digital Transformation for Project Management

 

I won a Teaching Learning Award at UTS in 2026 for Course Innovation and Enhancement for empowering postgraduate students to apply systems thinking in practice.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Information Visualisation for Project Portfolio Decision-Making: An Action Design Research Exploration
    31 Jul 2025
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Through-life Information Requirements Management in High-Performance Building and Infrastructure Projects: A Systems Approach, Case Study,
    30 Sep 2024
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Managing data science initiatives as exploratory projects: A new approach to program management (opens in a new tab)⁠
    8 Jun 2024
    Lead supervisor
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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Value Co-creation for Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Projects in China: A Holistic Framework from Antecedents to Outcomes of Interaction (opens in a new tab)⁠
    16 Jan 2024
    Lead supervisor
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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Crew construction and its impact on construction productivity, PhD (UTS/IIT-M), Mixed Methods,
    1 Sep 2023
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Non-Executive Director Perception of Project Portfolio Visibility at the Corporate Governance Layer
    1 Sep 2023
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A study on the role of opportunism forms in increasing stakeholder satisfaction in PPP projects using Transaction Cost Economics Theory
    15 Dec 2022
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    ICT Adoption in NSW Local Government: Rhetoric, Realities and Policy Options,
    15 Dec 2022
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Socially Sustainable Development of China's Aged-care PPP Projects
    15 Dec 2022
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    . It’s not that simple: A complex adaptive systems approach to understanding changing dynamics in leadership teams
    1 May 2022
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    . Project management maturity and project success in NSW local government
    1 Mar 2022
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Including Generative Mechanisms in Project Scheduling Using Hybrid Simulation, Simulation
    1 Feb 2022
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Family and NGO Action Creating New Homes for Adults with Disability: Entrepreneurship Bricolage and Innovation
    20 Dec 2021
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Project Benefit Governance: The role of corporate governance in project outcomes
    15 Nov 2021
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the socio-technical responses of construction sectors to the Vietnamese Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate: A qualitative case study approach
    1 Nov 2021
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Towards cyber-physical product service systems design
    15 Oct 2021
    Joint supervisor
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    Leading Projects in Organisation
    1 Jan 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    External Stakeholder Management in Megaprojects
    15 Dec 2019
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Gaming and Decision Making in Project Portfolio Management, PhD (UTS), Simulation
    15 Jun 2018
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Project Portfolio Value Dimensions in Multi-stakeholder Environments
    15 Jun 2018
    Joint supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Dynamics of Change in a Complex Sporting Environment: Cricket Australia
    15 Jun 2017
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What are the Major Barriers to the Successful Implementation of Knowledge Management Projects in the Telecommunication Industry: An Action Research Study
    1 Jun 2017
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Interpretive Framework for IT Projects using Complexity Theory Principles
    15 Jun 2016
    Lead supervisor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Moving towards inclusion: Servant leadership and the aged care resident.
    15 Jun 2016
    Lead supervisor
  • COURSE DEVELOPED
    Governance Portfolio and Program Management
    1 Jan 2016