Vikas Kumar

Biography

Dr Vikas Kumar, is Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. Prior to joining UWE, he worked as a Lecturer in Management at Dublin City University Business School in Republic of Ireland and as a Research Assistant for the University of Hong Kong and University of Exeter. He serves on the editorial board of around six international journals including International J. of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience, Int. J. of Service, Economics, and Management and Int. J. of Manufacturing Systems. He has guest edited a number of special issues in high impact journals including J. of Information Technology (ABS 3*), Supply Chain Management an Int. J. (ABS 3*), Production, Planning & Control (ABS 3*), In. J. of Engineering Management and Economics (IJSEM), Int. J. of Lean Enterprise Research (IJLER), and Int. J. of Lean Six Sigma (IJLSS). He is also reviewer of more than 10 international journals including ABS 4 and ABS 3* journals such as Int. J Production Research (ABS3*), Int. J of Production Economics (ABS3*), Production Planning and Control (ABS3*), Supply Chain Management an Int. J (ABS3*), Expert Systems with Application (ABS3*), Int. J of Production and Operations Management (ABS4), J of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (ABS2*) and Computers and Industrial Engineering (ABS2*). Prof Kumar works very closely with industries and has generated research funding in the excess of £1 million from various research agencies such as Innovate UK, EPSRC, British Council, British Academy, Newton Fund, and Science Foundation of Ireland. He is currently working on four research projects funded by British Academy/Newton Fund and EPSRC/Innovate UK that are focused on developing countries. These research projects are in collaboration with researchers from a number of UK universities as well as researchers from Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Costa Rica and Turkey. Prof Kumar’s current research focus is on sustainable supply chain management and short food supply chains. His other research interests include supply chain improvement, green supply chain, process modelling, innovation in SMEs, operations strategy, and service supply chains. At UWE currently he is involved in teaching a number of postgraduate and undergraduate modules on research methods, operations management and operations strategy. He is also actively involved in supervising research masters and doctoral students (PhDs). He welcomes PhD applications broadly in the area of operations and supply chain management including lean, process modelling, service operations, short food supply chains and sustainable and low carbon supply chains.

Research Interest

Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Process Modelling; Green Supply Chain Management;Structural Equation Modelling; Service Operations Management; Meta Analaysis; Healthcare Innovation; Short Food Supply Chains