Melissa joined the Risk Management Research Group in the School of Risk and Safety Sciences in November 2007. She is an Associate Lecturer in Risk Management.
Following an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College in London, Melissa worked in industry as a Mechanical Design Engineer and a Project Leader for several years. As a result of her involvement in implementation of a product data management system, she decided to return to the academia and research the information systems in an organisational context, more specifically in manufacturing industry. As a Research Assistant at Cranfield University, she worked on a project funded by the European Commission called Better Enterprise SysTem Implementation – BEST. Her PhD thesis focuses on the role of organisational and project communication during enterprise system implementation (The thesis is online here - 3.5Mb PDF). She then moved to the Lancaster University Management School where she researched the risk assessment process in engineering system design, a project funded by the EPSRC.
Melissa's particular areas of interest are organisational and technology change, communication and organisational process, and the issues of ownership and commitment in an organisational setting. If you can see areas of potential collaboration, are interested in specific research projects or afore mentioned research areas, please contact Melissa by email.
PUBLICATIONS
- Sedmak, M. and Longhurst, P. Methodological choices in enterprise systems research, Business Process Management Journal, in press.
- Busby, J. and Sedmak, M. The management of risk redistributions, Journal of Risk Research, under review.
- Evans, A. and Sedmak, M. (2008), Investigating risks faced by Australian Small and Medium Enterprises in renewable energy new technologies sector, Poster presentation for Society for Risk Analysis conference, 30 Sep - 1 Oct, Canberra.
- Sedmak, M. (2008), Aspirations, plans and risks: Shedding light on cleaner energy new technologies within Australian SME sector, Proceedings of New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, 10-12 July, Lancaster, UK.
- Sedmak, M. (2007), “Five misunderstandings about case-study research” by Bent Flyvbjerg: Critique in the context of teaching Operations Management, BMAF Magazine, Higher Education Academy, Vol. 1, No. 2.
- Sedmak, M. (2006), Convergence to validation: Building theory from case data, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 OASIS 2006 Workshop, 10 Dec, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US.
- Sedmak, M. and Busby, J. (2006), Risk distribution and re-distribution: How are they addressed in the risk assessment process? Proceedings of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2006, 3-6 Dec, Baltimore, Maryland, US.
- Busby, J. and Sedmak, M. (2006), Risk redistribution in technology decision making, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Risk Analysis 2006, 11-13 Sep, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Sedmak, M. (2005), Communication on ES implementation projects: A SWOT Analysis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Sedmak, M. (2005), Communication issues during enterprise system implementation, Proceedings of British Academy of Management Conference 2005, Oxford, UK.
- Sedmak, M., Fan, I.S. and Wognum, P.M. (2004), Hidden gems: What literature reveals about the cases of enterprise system implementation, Proceedings of British Academy of Management Conference 2004, St Andrew’s, UK.
- Wognum, P.M., Mensink, G., Bühl, H., Ma, X., Sedmak-Wells, M. and Fan, I.S. (2004), Collaborative enterprise system implementation: Improving project start-up, Proceedings of Concurrent Engineering Conference 2004, Beijing, China.
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