Graham has been Professor of Project Management in Alliance Manchester Business School since 2004 and was awarded the International Project Management Association Global Research Achievement Award 2024.
He has run construction projects and researched various aspects of innovation and project management across a wide variety of engineering sectors. He was until recently Academic Director for Executive Education at AMBS, including accountability for project leadership programmes such as Managing Projects for BP, and Leading Complex Projects Programmes and Portfolios programme for BAE Systems.
In a distinguished career, he has published over 60 refereed journal articles complemented by over 30 book chapters, and numerous conference papers, and research reports. He authored Managing Construction Projects (2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), co-authored Strategic Project Organizing (Oxford University Press, 2022), and co-edited the Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing (Edward Elgar, 2023). He is currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Project Management, particularly responsible for the Essays collection.
Graham’s current research focuses on the role of owners as investors in, and operators of, economic infrastructure, and on construction productivity as a Productivity Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council’s The Productivity Institute focused on new build housing and major infrastructure. He works closely with the Association for Project Management on thought leadership for the future of the profession.
Addressing the Net-Zero and productivity challenges: How could the housing sector play a key role?
