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Professor Fran Ackermann is a leading academic in strategy making and complex project management at Curtin University's School of Management and Marketing (Faculty of Business and Law). She holds adjunct roles at Strathclyde Business School and Manchester Business School. Her research focuses on stakeholder engagement, systemic risk, and causal mapping techniques, with applications in public and private sectors. She has authored five books, 24 book chapters, and over 60 peer-reviewed articles, primarily in A/A* journals. Her work emphasizes practical methodologies like the Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA) approach and Group Support Systems (GSS).
Education: PhD (details unspecified). Research funding exceeds $4 million, with grants assessed in Australia, UK, Canada, and the US. Awards include British Academy of Management Fellow and multiple Academy of Management Best Paper Awards. She actively supervises PhD/DBA students (16 completed, seven ongoing).
Her research integrates theories from psychology, management, and information systems to address complex problems. Key areas include strategy implementation, project cost overruns, and disruption modeling. She collaborates internationally, with ties to institutions in Europe and the US. Her recent work explores grand challenges and stakeholder engagement in marine and environmental contexts.
Awards: British Academy of Management Fellow; Academy of Management Best Paper Awards (2003, 2006, 2011). Grants include ESRC, EPSRC, ARC, and SSHRC funding. She serves as Senior Editor of Decision Support Systems and has advised multiple grant agencies.
Labs/Teams: Active in interdisciplinary teams addressing systemic risk, project management, and environmental governance. Her causal mapping tools (Decision Explorer/Group Explorer) are widely adopted in industry and academia.
