A Northumbria Project Management graduate has been awarded
the Association for Project Management (APM) North East Dissertation Prize.
Mark Elliott was presented with the prestigious award by Principal
Lecturer in Project Management at Northumbria, Dr Allan Osborne, on behalf of
the APM North East Branch Committee.
Mark recently completed Northumbria’s Project Management MSc
programme, which has been associated with the APM North East Branch for over a
decade.
His decision to undertake the Masters qualification followed
a twenty-year teaching career, during which he worked in a number of different
North East secondary schools as an Economics teacher and Assistant Head Teacher.
Mark decided to take a career break with a view to pursuing
a new challenge and, since graduation, has been appointed as a Capital
Development and Project Manager for Northumberland County Council.
His dissertation adopted a case study methodology to explore
the relationship between project owner and project culture within one of the
UK's largest ship repair and conversion companies.
His findings indicated market culture was a predominant
factor and the project culture experienced by private and public sector
employees is markedly different.
The implications of Mark’s study, for those organisations
utilising projects, is that consideration should be given to the ownership and
governance of a project.
The cultural dimension for projects owned by public sector
interests are more likely to experience a stronger association with the
hierarchical culture type and, therefore, the adoption of formal rules and
procedures and tight scrutiny of projects is an expectation of public-sector
project owners.
Dr Allan Osborne said: “Mark was as an exemplary student. He
proactively engaged in all aspects of learning and was supportive towards his
peers. My colleagues and I are delighted
Mark has graduated and received the APM NE Branch Dissertation Prize, which is
well deserved. We wish him well with his
future career in Project Management.”
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