Peter Fenn
Reader
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
Peter Fenn took up an academic post after a career in the construction industry with posts in private practice; construction companies and nationalised industries. Since taking up a post at UMIST in 1990 Peter has also held posts as visitors at universities in Great Britain and abroad. During the academic year 1997/98 Peter was visiting professor and Scholar-in-Residence at the Department of Construction Engineering University of Kentucky. Peter specialises in disputes and dispute resolution; he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a mediator on both the President's Panel at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Panel of Mediators at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a Programme Director MSc Commercial Management.
Research Interest
Construction Conflict and Disputes, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Expert Witness Litigation, The effect, on construction, of protection to flora and fauna particularly Chiroptera.
