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Publications

Sheikh Md Nurnabi, , Mahmood Shehrin Shaila, Hanifi Syed Manjoor Ahmed,

SSM - Health Systems Vol 5 (2025)

Mahmoud Hesham, Korzilius Hubert, Olde Rikkert Marcel, , Rouwette Etienne, Schoenberg William

Methodology to Address Grand Challenges: Theory, Practice, and Interventions (2025) (2025)

Wurth Bernd, , , Stam Erik

85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2025)

, , , Kikkert Peter, ,

Proceedings of the 22nd ISCRAM Conference ISCRAM 2025 (2025)

Peters Joshua, , , , , Kikkert Peter,

Proceedings of the 22nd ISCRAM Conference ISCRAM 2025 (2025)

, McCabe Holly, , Megiddo Itamar, Sengupta Soumen,

Social Science and Medicine Vol 371 (2025)

Teaching

Susan has 25 years of experience in teaching to undergraduate, postgraduate and post experience students. Programmes on which she regularly teaches are MBA, MSc Business Analysis & Consulting and MSc Operational Research. Her teaching includes general Management Science classes in additon to specialised classes in system dynamics and project risk management that reflect her key research interests. Susan has delivered training courses for organisations such as Bombardier Inc., Babcock, Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Government. She has also taught extensively via distance learning and was involved in developing two unique online MSc's.

Research Interests

My research interests include how multiple modelling methods can be integrated effectively to create robust, client-orientated decision support tools. I have been involved in creating such tools for clients in healthcare, engineering, construction and the energy sector. In addition, I have an interest in understanding what causes complex projects to overrun and in developing new risk assessment and management tools, which enable risk systemicity to be considered. 

Professional Activities

Contributor

11/2024

Keynote/plenary speaker

29/3/2023

Advisor

2022

Editorial board member

2022

Examiner

2022

Advisor

6/10/2021

Projects

Howick, Susan (Academic) Nguyen, Le Khanh Ngan (Academic) Donnachie, Craig (Academic)

Integrating Behavioural Theories into Simulation Models to Advance the Health Policy Evaluation Approach in Value-Based Health and Care

01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028

Belton, Ian (Principal Investigator) Rudman, Archie John (Researcher) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator)

The NNSAR project was focused on enhancing the Search and Rescue (SAR) system in the Canadian Arctic regions of Nunavut and Nunavik, where SAR responders – mostly volunteers – provide 24/7 response capabilities in challenging conditions with limited resources. Their services are essential for community safety and well-being. The NNSAR team has developed a novel quantitative risk model to support decision-making around the strategic allocation of resources for SAR operations.

To improve the management of SAR operations, and to maximise the impact of the NNSAR model, we have identified a need for more and better SAR data. At present, Emergency Management Organizations (EMOs) must allocate resources and seek government funding based on limited and/or anecdotal evidence only. This impact project plans to address the identified data gap in two ways.
First, we will work with Kativik Civil Security (KCS), the Nunavik EMO, to develop a rigorous process for the collection, analysis and reporting of SAR data. Those data will allow KCS to make evidence-based policy decisions to better support SAR in Nunavik and enable us to develop the NNSAR model into one with broad applicability across diverse SAR environments.

Second, we aim to extend the reach of our impact to Scotland. As in Nunavik, Scottish mountain rescue relies on a committed group of volunteers operating in a challenging environment. The two SAR systems share many features, notably growing caseloads that are increasing the strain on responders and the system as a whole. The data available in Scotland are much more detailed than in Nunavik but are currently underutilised. We will form a new partnership with Mountaineering Scotland to:
1. Apply the NNSAR model to existing Scottish mountain rescue data – this can both improve the model and provide useful insights for Scotland, which will translate back to Canada; and

2. Apply learning from the novel Nunavik SAR data collection process to enhance data collection within Scotland.

The outcomes of this project will include enhanced SAR in Nunavik and Scotland, stronger relationships with external partners, and the construction of a risk model with wide application to emergency management operations across the world.

02-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025

Quigley, John (Principal Investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)

06-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-2025

Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018

Morton, Alec (Principal Investigator) Howick, Susan (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017

Howick, Susan (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2015 - 30-Jan-2018