Professor Linda Hendry
Distinguished ProfessorMy Role
Distinguished Professor of Operations Management
Research Overview
My main ongoing research interest is in Sustainable Supply Chain Management including projects to address: sustainable packaging innovations to reduce plastic waste; sustainable sourcing involving emerging economies; sustainable global supplier development and supply chain responses to modern slavery legislation. She also has extensive expertise in manufacturing strategy, planning and control for product customisation contexts.
Current Research
- UKRI Industrial Strategy funded project: Plastic Packaging in People's Lives - aiming to reduce plastic packaging in the food supply chain by bridging the consumer attitude-behaviour gap;
- The impact of COVID-19 on supply chain sustainability;
- Investigation of Local Buying as a sustainable, socially responsible sourcing strategy;
- The impact of Modern Slavery Legislation on socially responsible sourcing in the global fashion and textiles industry;
- Social sustainability issues in global supply chains.
Current Teaching
Postgraduate Supervision of PhD students and Masters Student Dissertations
Other Teaching Competence Operations Management at all levels of UG and PG teaching; Supply Chain Management; Quantitative techniques for decision makingat UG and PG level; Post experience: Manufacturing Insitute master's dissertation supervisor and module convenor - Module 4, World Class Manufacturing, for MSc in Manufacturing Leadership.
Qualifications
BSc, PhD Lancaster
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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- Centre for Consumption Insights
- Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
- Pentland Centre
- Supply Chain Management