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From the Frontline >
Meeting project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront of project management techniques.Ìý
Project Innovators series >
Speaking to project professionals who are leading projects in an innovative way at a time when many of us are hoping the world of work and projects can be reset for a post-COVID-19 world.
Crisis Talks series >
Our Crisis Talks series explores how project managers are adapting and pivoting to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More topics >
Bringing you stories of how project professionals are adapting, pivoting and succeeding in a post-COVID world.
From the Frontline
In ‘From the Frontline’, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront of project management techniques.
May 2021 🕑 40:16
In this first episode, we meet Nick Elliott, who was director general of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce for the UK government from its inception in April 2020 until the end of last year.
July 2021 🕑 36:07
In this episode, we meet Jennifer Trosper, project manager for NASA’s Mars Perseverance project in its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Jennifer has worked on NASA’s Perseverance programme for eight years.
July 2021 🕑 28:57
In this episode, we meet Emma Willson, who leads the National Audit Office’s Major Projects Delivery area of focus. She has worked at the NAO for almost 20 years, auditing a wide range of government programmes, from welfare reform to large-scale defence equipment projects.
August 2021 🕑 32:04
In this episode we meet Dr Natalie Marguet, a senior lecturer in leadership and organisational development at Liverpool John Moores University, and author of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s recent research paper Detect, Reflect and Adapt: Factors influencing critical project decisions.
September 2021 🕑 43:31
In this special episode to tie in with ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s annualÌýThink Differently conference, Emma De Vita, the editor of Project journal, speaks to three ambitious female project professionals to talk about how to have a thriving career despite the barriers that organisational or team culture still persistently put in the way of individual women – women who might also be contending with bias around race or age.
October 2021 🕑 48:39
In this episode we meet Gemma Roura Serra, strategic planning director at ABB Formula E. Formula E is the world’s first all-electric single-seater car racing series, conceived to accelerate electric vehicle adoption and demonstrate leadership in the sports world by becoming the only sport to be net-zero carbon since inception.
October 2021 🕑 56:51
In this episode Emma speaks to the researchers behind Project X's latest report, published by ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, calledÌýRethinking Capabilities: Lessons for policy, scholarship and practice. Project X is an ESRC‑funded research collaboration between government, academia and industry representatives, aiming to generate unique insights into the performance of major projects and programmes in government.
November 2021 🕑 41:31
In this episode, ProjectÌýjournal editor Emma De Vita speaks to Tim Rose, programme manager at Energy Superhub Oxford, a four-year, £40m demonstrator project to explore potential innovation in using batteries to support grid stability, electric vehicle infrastructure and smart renewable heating.
December 2021 🕑 46:41
In this episode Emma de Vita speaks to Mike Bradley, a senior research associate at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge; and Neil Smith, inclusive design lead for HS2 Ltd and one of the Mayor of London’s Design Advocates.
They’ll be explaining exactly what inclusive design is, why it matters for your projects and how to do it well.
Project Innovators
In the ‘Project Innovators’ season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is speaking to project professionals who are leading projects in an innovative way at a time when many of us are hoping the world of work and projects can be reset for a post-COVID-19 world.
October 2020 🕑 42:04
In episode one, we meet Caroline Raynor, project manager and principal archaeologist for the Costain Skanska JV, who designed and led the Saint James’s Gardens excavation in London's Euston as part of work for HS2’s London terminus.
October 2020 🕑 45:34
In this episode we speaks to Matthew Moran, Head of Transformation at The Open University, and occasional lecturer in the OU Business School.
December 2020 🕑 35:57
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita discusses diversity and inclusion with Jenny McLaughlin, a project manager at Heathrow Airport, who is also its disability network lead.Ìý
January 2021 🕑 37:09
In this episode Jo Stanford, at Health Education England, shares her experiences of raising professional PM standards across the NHS.
January 2021 🕑 41:15
In this episode we meet Benjamin Hooper, programme and project manager at Heathrow Airport, whose project won ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s 2020 Overall Project of the Year.
March 2021 🕑 33:58
In this episode, we speak to Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, who is on a mission to champion project management as a central issue for every CEO.Ìý
March 2021 🕑 41:48
In this final episode of the Project Innovators season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita speaks to Bent Flyvbjerg, the first BT professor and inaugural chair of major programme management at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Crisis talks
Our Crisis Talks series explores how project managers are adapting and pivoting to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 2020 🕑 44:32
In episode one of our first season, Crisis Talks, Emma De Vita (editor of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Project journal) speaks to Lizzie Meadows, a project manager at Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), whose biorepository project went live just as coronavirus hit the UK. The project has since been able to provide crucial resource and support to QIB genome sequencing scientists’ contribution to the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium.
June 2020 🕑 35:20
In this episode, we speak to Sonia Sharma, head of planning and corporate PMO at Channel 4. Sonia explains the challenges of working within an organisation of low project management maturity, where staff are sometimes resistant to the structures and governance she is trying to implement.
June 2020 🕑 31:20
In this episode, we speak to Hannah Gledhill, senior project manager at Hotel Chocolat. The British chocolatier has small project team focused primarily on product development.
July 2020 🕑 43:33
In this episode, we speak to Paul Hilton, programme director at global engineering, management and development company Mott MacDonald.
July 2020 🕑 29:23
In this episode we meet Andrew Higson, a project manager at Balvac, part of the Balfour Beatty Group, which is a specialist in the repair, strengthening, refurbishment and protection of buildings and civil structures.
August 2020 🕑 33:58
In the episode we meet Joanna Rowland, director of HMRC’s COVID-19 Response Unit, responsible for the department’s strategic approach to the pandemic.
December 2020 🕑 22:35
In this episode, we look back on 2020 and reflect on some key project management lessons from a turbulent 9 months.
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Bringing you stories of how project professionals are adapting, pivoting and succeeding in a post-COVID world.
3 project trends for 2023 with Eddie Obeng
February 2023 🕑 21:46
‘A sense maker in a daft world’ is how today’s guest, Eddie Obeng, describes himself.
Eddie is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, an esteemed columnist for Project journal and an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Honorary Fellow.
8 January 2026 🕑 35:07
Emma welcomes back to the podcast Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, author and Vice President of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, to talk about his new book. In it, he argues that CEOs must put projects, not operations, at the centre of how their companies create value.
23 December 2025 🕑 27:08
Emma meets Nathan Hellebrand ChPP, Global Delivery Director at Babcock International Group, and Mike Hudson ChPP, Interim Strategy Management Director at the National Trust, to discuss simplicity.
11 December 2025 🕑 31:01
Professor Adam Boddison OBE welcomes Gareth Taylor to the podcast. Gareth was recently appointed a nuclear sector director at Turner & Townsend, having previously spent over six years at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
26 November 2025 🕑 52:58
Emma is joined by Douglas Hubbard and Andreas Leed to discuss their book How to Measure Anything in Project Management, also co-authored with Alexander Budzier.
13 November 2025 🕑 55:15
Emma speaks to Dame Inga Beale, ex-CEO of Lloyd’s of London, hears the advice of leadership coach Muriel Wilkins of Paravis Partners in the US, and Anita Phagura a leadership development and culture coach.
30 October 2025 🕑 56:11
Emma is joined by Nigel Cann (Sizewell C), Stuart McLaren (WSP) and Carol Tansley (X-energy). They discuss the future of nuclear energy projects in the UK, including new technologies and the government’s wider strategy for clean energy.
16 October 2025 🕑 54:25
Emma meets Dr Paul Chapman, Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and Gordon MacKay, Project Management Capability Lead at Sellafield, who also provided specialist knowledge for a new ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Learning module on leadership of self, which is coming out soon.
Gordon and Paul delve deep into their experience and research to pass on their advice on what it takes to be a great project leader in 2025.
Gordon’s ºìÌÒÊÓƵ book, Evolving Project Leadership is available from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ bookshop.
2 October 2025 🕑 34:46
Emma meets Amy Morley ChPP, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s new Chair and a Programme Management Senior Director at AECOM, an industry leader in programme management services for large, complex infrastructure programmes.
Amy discusses everything from what the future might hold for ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and the project profession to her career lessons.
18 September 2025 🕑 51:38
Emma is joined by Dr Clara Cheung (University of Manchester), Veronica Sikombe (Mott MacDonald) and Rochelle Sampson-Clarke (NHS South, Central and West CSU) to discuss managing stress, maintaining work-life balance and avoiding burnout.
4 September 2025 🕑 35:10
Emma meets Jonathan Simcock, a highly experienced and respected project leader who until last year was chair of the Submarine Delivery Agency in the MOD.
His book, The Delivery Gap: Why government projects really fail and what can be done about it will be published on 22 September 2025.
21 August 2025 🕑 28:47
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ CEO Professor Adam Boddison is joined by Steve Langbridge, Director of Programmes at SEA.
Steve shares what it’s like to deliver projects and programmes in the defence sector – including the challenges of working in such a fast-evolving and complex space.
7 August 2025 🕑 59:38
Emma goes behind the scenes at London's Natural History Museum, which is an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Corporate Partner.
To celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2031 Emma headed to the first of six new permanent galleries called 'Fixing our broken planet'. Listen to hear Emma interview the project professionals who delivered the new gallery.
24 July 2025 🕑 39:23
Emma visits Elstree Studios, which has been home to TV soap EastEnders since 1985. She goes behind the scenes of a project to create new production and post-production suites from a derelict building and to give actors new dressing rooms and make-up rooms.
10 July 2025 🕑 48:32
They discuss finding purpose and meaning in your work. For project professionals, a sense of purpose – that you're doing something not just for the bottom line, but also for the bigger impact that you can have – is where they get their motivation.
26 June 2025 🕑 25:34
In this episode we hear why sustainability isn't just a top-down directive. It can be driven by project professionals at all levels through small, meaningful actions that influence outcomes and contribute to long-term positive change.
This episode brings together some of the highlights from the two-day ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Conference 2025. Tickets for the 2026 ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Conference are available now.
12 June 2025 🕑 29:02
The ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Salary and Market Trends Survey 2025 takes a snapshot of life on the frontline of project management, comparing how pay, compensation, job satisfaction, opportunities and challenges have changed since the 2023 survey.
29 May 2025 🕑 38:40
Emma meets Dr Sara Hajikazemi and Professor Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez to discuss ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s research report Projecting for the Future: Harmonising energy and environment.
15 May 2025 🕑 26:59
Emma meets Mike Bourne, professor of Business Performance at Cranfield University and Managing Editor of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Body of Knowledge 8th edition.
1 May 2025 🕑 26:58
Adam meets Dhruv Patel, an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Honorary Fellow and Chief Executive and Founder of the Nisai Group. His company specialises in the delivery of online education services to learners around the world, particularly what it calls ‘non-traditional students’.
17 April 2025 🕑 46:42
Emma meets Paul Kidston and Carolyn Browning to discuss project controls. The pair are co-authors, along with others, of the new ºìÌÒÊÓƵ book, Project Controls in the 21st Century.
3 April 2025 🕑 41:34
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Chief Executive Professor Adam Boddison OBE is joined in conversation by Pierre Le Manh, President and CEO at the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Hear him chat with Adam about his career journey, growing the recognition of the project profession and why leaders need to stay calm in a crisis.
20 Mar 2025 🕑 39:20
Emma meets Ashleigh Hargrave, Interim Head of Strategy Projects and Management at the King Edward VI Foundation in Birmingham, and David Kitchiner, Head of the Portfolio Office at the RSPB, to find out what it’s like to be leading project management within these two charities, both of which are ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Corporate Partners.
6 Mar 2025 🕑 49:52
Emma meets Frances Palmer, Associate Director at Gleeds; Dave Corbin FºìÌÒÊÓƵ, Head of Client Accounts at Gleeds; and leadership and culture coach Anita Phagura, who previously worked in infrastructure project management.
Frances and Dave helped set up ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Built Environment Interest Network last year. With a special focus on diversity and inclusion for the week of International Women’s Day, our guests explore how the construction sector can become more diverse and inclusive, what actions really work and how change can be accelerated.
Ìý20 Feb 2025 🕑 24:20
Emma meets Dr Miranda Loh, Director of Scientific Growth, Engagement and Innovation at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, which is dedicated to enhancing health in workplaces.
Listen on to find out how project management can bring value to new sectors. And how project management can be introduced to an organisation not formerly familiar with it.
6 Feb 2025 🕑 38:49
Emma speaks to leadership and management expert Jo Owen and Andy Alder, Managing Director of Major Infrastructure Delivery at Anglian Water, about how to delegate.
23 Jan 2025 🕑 14:06
As we often hear on this podcast, being an effective project professional is about more than just managing timelines and budgets.
9 Jan 2025 🕑 35:09
Emma meets Suzanne Moreland, Vice President of Programme Management Practice at AECOM, about how to step up from being a project manager to being a programme manager.
26 Dec 2024 🕑 17:35
In this episode, we’re going to look back at what we’ve learned from the 25 episodes we’ve published this year.
Dec 2024 🕑 53:53
Emma meets Daniel Armanios, BT Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and Zack Swafford, co-founder of Dart, a San Francisco-based start-up whose project management tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist with brainstorming, roadmap planning and report generation, among other tasks.
Nov 2024 🕑 27:26
Emma meets Donna Sinnick, Chief Delivery Officer at Babcock International Group, a defence, aerospace and security company, about her rise to the top of the profession and the valuable career and project management lessons she's learned along the way.
Nov 2024 🕑 43:10
Emma meets four project professionals who volunteer for ºìÌÒÊÓƵ's Women in Project Management (WiPM) Interest Network. They have all found their own unique path to a career in project management.
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Oct 2024 🕑 39:01
Emma meets Marie Coombes and Sophie Paton to explore how to have difficult conversations as a project manager.
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Oct 2024 🕑 54:24
Recorded live at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Women in Project Management Conference 2024, this episode brings together four project professionals to discuss what inclusivity means to them.
Oct 2024 🕑 35:02
Emma meets Susanne Madsen, an executive coach for business leaders, particularly those working in the project profession. She is the award-winning author of The Power of Project Leadership and a regular contributor to Project journal.
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Sep 2024 🕑 36:34
To celebrate our 100th episode, Emma means Ros Atkins, the BBC’s News Analysis Editor, who has presented and reported on some of the biggest stories around the world for 20 years.
Sep 2024 🕑 47:40
Emma travels to Westcott, Buckinghamshire, to meet the team at Nammo Space, who work on propulsion systems for space rocket engines and thrusters.
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Aug 2024 🕑 28:12
Emma meets Emma Caroll-Walsh, Director of Customer Programmes at Aqua Consultants and Deputy Chair of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Built Environment Interest Network, who is also an outgoing ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Board Trustee.
Aug 2024 🕑 39:30
Emma meets Jimmy Nguyen, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Project Professional of the Year 2023 and Associate Director at Turner & Townsend.
Jimmy worked on the Bromford and Castle Vale flood risk management scheme for the Environment Agency.
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Jul 2024 🕑 24:04
We take a deep dive into the future of the project profession, with a compilation of some of our favourite insights from the 2024 ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Conference.
Jul 2024 🕑 30:15
Emma meets Algy Ayson, Head of Project Delivery Centre of Excellence and Profession at UK Parliament, who works on projects and programmes across both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
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Jul 2024 🕑 35:05
Professor Adam Boddison in conversation Sir Nigel Thrift, Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, or CoRWM.
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June 2024 🕑 38:49
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ CEO Professor Adam Boddison invites outgoing ºìÌÒÊÓƵ President Sue Kershaw and her successor Yvonne Thompson CBE to hand over the baton.
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May 2024 🕑 33:47
Emma meets Thimon de Jong, founder of WHETSTON / strategic foresight, a think tank specialising in future human behaviour and societal change and the implications for leadership and business strategy.
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May 2024 🕑 38:25
In this podcast we share an edited recording of the launch event for the Golden Thread report, which asks 'What is the true value of the project profession to the UK economy and society?'
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May 2024 🕑 37:31
Emma meets Steve Gilligan, a programme manager who’s playing a critical role in the world's first decommissioning of a nuclear fusion machine.
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April 2024 🕑 34:56
Professor Adam Boddison in conversation with the Head of the Government Property Profession, Lynda Rawsthorne. Sitting within the Cabinet Office, Lynda is responsible for the strategy for the whole government estate, which covers everything from hospitals to courts and offices.Ìý
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March 2024 🕑 48:17
In the third and final part of our series on the National Trust, Emma is back at Dyrham Park near Bath to meet three project management apprentices who all started at the Trust in October 2022 and are nearing the end of their 18-month apprenticeship programme after sitting ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Project Management Qualification.Ìý
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March 2024 🕑 52:18
In episode 2 of our three-part series on the National Trust, an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Corporate Partner, Emma finds out about the Trust’s urban programmes and its work in renewables.
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February 2024 🕑 45:27
In our three-part series on the National Trust, an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Corporate Partner, we find out how the charity has brought project management close to its organisational heart.Ìý
February 2024 🕑 28:37
Hear how Rachel made the career switch and what lessons she learnt along the way.
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January 2024 🕑 28:10
What’s it like to deliver life-changing medical research projects that address health problems facing communities, change health options and outcomes for patients, and improve the lives of people living with disease?
January 2024 🕑 26:39
Emma meets Dame Inga Beale, portfolio director and former CEO of global insurance giant Lloyd’s of London. Dame Inga was keynote speaker at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s 2023 Women in Project Management Conference.
December 2023 🕑 32:33
Professor Adam Boddison meets Baroness Valentine.
Having started out working in corporate finance in the City in the 1980s, in recent years Baroness Valentine has had what she describes as a "portfolio career".Ìý
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December 2023 🕑 25:14
We look back at our favourite moments from the podcast in 2023.Ìý
November 2023 🕑 37:06
In this episode, Emma meets three project professionals with a deep interest in artificial intelligence (AI) to consider what impact this technology is having right now on projects, what it might hold for the future and what project managers should be doing to adapt to this brave new world.Ìý
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October 2023 🕑 28:08
In this episode, Emma is joined once again by Professor Darren Dalcher of the University of Lancaster. Few people have studied project management as closely or for as long as Darren. In a career spanning more than 25 years, he has become very interested in the reasons for project failure.
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October 2023 🕑 37:47
Emma meets three women to talk about menopause in the workplace. Two of them are project professionals – Rachel Jackson of Anglo American and Jo Roberts of the DfT – while the third, Aly Dilks of Simply Menopausal, is a nurse specialising in menopause.Ìý
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September 2023 🕑 26:41
Professor Adam Boddison meets Martina Blake of the UK Space Agency. Martina heads up the agency’s Office for Project and Programme Management, which she set up in November 2021.Ìý
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September 2023 🕑 26:48
Kris shares his journey through the ranks of the civil service, including his rise from admin assistant to portfolio director, and how he, in his own words, "stumbled into project management".
August 2023 🕑 28:23
Emma meets Peter Simon, a Director at Lucidus Consulting and a member of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Risk SIG Committee. He is co-author of a new ºìÌÒÊÓƵ report looking into opportunity management as part of the overall project risk management process.Ìý
August 2023 🕑 15:57
In this podcast, we’ve compiled some of the key insights that emerged from the first stream of sessions at the conference, which was focused on the transformative impact that projects can have both on individual lives as well as economic, social and physical landscapes.
August 2023 🕑 27:14
Emma meets Beth West, CEO of East West Rail, a transport project that will open up a corridor from Oxford, through Milton Keynes and Bedford, to Cambridge and connect the UK’s two leading life sciences and tech hot spots.
July 2023 🕑 29:17
In this episode, Emma meets Jo Jolly, Deputy Director and Head of Project Futures at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, who recently spoke at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ's Change Changes conference.Ìý
June 2023 🕑 29:03
Emma meets Dan Jennings, who recently established a project management office at the UK wing of global media agency Wavemaker.
May 2023 🕑 28:51
Emma meets Carmel McConnell MBE – a change activist and keynote speaker at the upcoming ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Conference on 8 June in Birmingham. Carmel founded the charity Magic Breakfast; she is a tech entrepreneur, mentor to CEOs and best-selling author of Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast.
May 2023 🕑 38:51
Emma meets three project professionals (Alex Constantine, Clare Hornsby and Natalie Talbot) to discuss what it’s like to be an introvert in a project profession that seems to favour extroverts, at least on the surface.Ìý
April 2023 🕑 28:29
Emma meets Adrian Dooley, who has 45 years’ experience in project management. Adrian started out his career as a construction project manager, later becoming involved in developing software applications for construction. In 1984, he set up the Projects Group as a training and consultancy company.
April 2023 🕑 32:09
Professor Adam Boddison (ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Chief Executive) meets Nick Smallwood, CEO of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). The IPA oversees the UK’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline, which contains hundreds of billions of pounds of public and private infrastructure investment.Ìý
March 2023 🕑 26:34
Emma meets Haukur Ingi Jónasson, Professor of Project Management at the University of Reykjavik, where he runs its Master’s in Project Management (MPM) course. The MPM is helping create the project professionals needed to take Iceland through its latest transformation.
March 2023 🕑 40:22
Emma welcomes back Bent Flyvbjerg to talk about his new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to science exploration.
February 2023 🕑 50:47
This special episode is guest hosted by Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton, chair of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s PMO Specific Interest Group, and Director of Consulting Services at Wellingtone, who's in conversation with Catherine Lumb of Openreach.
February 2023 🕑 21:46
‘A sense maker in a daft world’ is how today’s guest, Eddie Obeng, describes himself.
Eddie is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, an esteemed columnist for Project journal and an ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Honorary Fellow.
January 2023 🕑 25:21
Emma meets Belinda Parmar, founder and CEO of The Empathy Business, who was also the keynote speaker at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Women in Project Management Conference in September.
Belinda uses the science of empathy to change the way we lead at work, changing cultures to bring more empowerment to people's lives, with a focus on belonging and diversity.
December 2022 🕑 19:34
In 2022, our podcast guests have shared their advice and experiences on everything from putting telescopes into space to discovering sunken ships at the bottom of the Antarctic Sea. As the year draws to a close, we thought it would be worthwhile taking a look back at some of the lessons we learnt in 2022.
December 2022 🕑 36:24
In this episode, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Chief Executive Professor Adam Boddison meets Craig Hatch, President at Tetra Tech UK. Tetra Tech is a global technology, environmental and management consultancy, with over 20,000 employees worldwide. The pair discuss the need for greater inclusivity in the profession, the state of project expertise at C-Suite level, and the importance of delivering long-term value to communities through projects.
December 2022 🕑 34:07
In this episode, Emma meets Annie Hairsine, the project management brains behind the fabulously successful Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this summer.
November 2022 🕑 38:48
For this podcast, Emma invited three high-flyers from the world of projects who also contributed to ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Women in Project Management Conference this year, which was a terrific success and a really buzzy event.
November 2022 🕑 45:17
In the second of our follow-up podcasts from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Women in Project Management Conference, Emma invites three senior leaders from the world of projects who contributed to WIPM. They share their experience to help those starting out in their career and also give their tips for women on how to rise to the top of the profession.
October 2022 🕑 42:54
In this episode, Emma meets three of the profession’s bright young things – Stacey Bishop (SSE Renewables), Ashlyn O’Riordan (Turner & Townsend) and James Patraiko (Corre Energy). They share the younger generation’s biggest concerns, expectations and hopes for their career.
October 2022 🕑 25:15
In this episode, Emma meets Kristina Bull, a Partner at QSA Partners, a B Corp consultancy with a mission to help organisations to implement circular economy business models. A project professional with a focus on sustainability, Kristina currently advises clothing brands and retailers and how to become more truly sustainable.
September 2022 🕑 31:49
This episode sees Professor Adam Boddison, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Chief Executive, in conversation with the Right Honourable Justine Greening. Adam and Justine discuss the definition of social mobility, the status of apprenticeships and where project management fits into the levelling up agenda.
September 2022 🕑 47:34
In this episode, Emma meets Sarah Coleman and Andrew Schuster to talk assurance management. Sarah is a Chartered Project Professional and Fellow of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and PhD researcher, and Andrew is the National Director of Transformation Risk and Advisory at PwC Canada.
August 2022 🕑 37:58
This episode sees Adam Boddison, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ chief executive, in conversation with Joanna Rowland, Director General for Transformation at HMRC. The pair discuss the evolution of the project profession within government, the skills and experience required to thrive in a project role and misconceptions surrounding the profession.
August 2022 🕑 43:52
In this episode, Andrew Saunders, business journalist and regular contributor to Project journal, sits down with Mark Wild, ex-CEO of Crossrail. Mark took over as CEO of Crossrail in 2018 at a time of highly publicised budget and deadline overruns.
July 2022 🕑 34:11
Project journal Editor Emma De Vita meets Nico Vincent, Subsea Project Manager for the Endurance22 expedition, which on 5 March found the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, which sank off the coast of Antarctica 107 years ago.
June 2022 🕑 60:00
The new world requires a different mindset and skillset to navigate the pitfalls of change delivery. In this podcast, Jo Stanford (Health Education England) and Sarbjit Hoskinson (ThermoFisher Scientific) discuss how they have tackled the cultural and behavioural shifts needed to embed change.
June 2022 🕑 36:00
In this episode Emma De Vita, editor of Project, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s quarterly journal speaks to to Dee Tamlin, currently head of legal project management at Pinsent Masons but who will, come mid-July be director of legal project management at White & Case, and Helga Butcher, at Head of Client Solutions within Ashurst Advance.
May 2022 🕑 26:21
In this episode Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Richard Noble, the leader of some truly awe-inspiring British extreme speed projects on land, at sea and in the air.Ìý
April 2022 🕑 34:23
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Evan Davis, presenter of BBC 4’s daily news programme PM, and former main presenter of Newsnight and the Today programme.
April 2022 🕑 29:25
In this episode, Emma De Vita, editor of Project, meets Marcos Fuentes, recipient of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s 2022 Festival of Education and Research award for Doctorate of the Year.
The focus of his thesis was how to co-create value for the long term, from the project planning stage and then throughout the development cycle of a project. The thesis originally established eight ways to achieve wider sustainable value, such as social, environmental, experiential and emotional elements beyond traditional short-term criteria such as time and cost.
March 2022 🕑 42:45
Adam Boddison, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ chief executive, meets Mark Thurston, CEO of Europe’s largest infrastructure project, HS2. The pair discuss the evolution of the project profession, areas for growth and the pressures associated with managing an era-defining megaproject.
Mark also gives his thoughts on the levelling-up agenda, sharing lessons learned and what makes an effective project leader.
March 2022 🕑 36:16
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets NASA’s Bill Ochs, project manager for the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space science telescope ever developed, which was successfully launched on Christmas Day on a journey of close to one million miles from earth.Ìý
February 2022 🕑 38:54
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Simon Fell, director of events, festivals and leisure at London’s Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally as you might know it). He has significant experience of delivering, programming and promoting large-scale public entertainment events with capacities of up to 50,000.Ìý
February 2022 🕑 45:12
In this episode, Emma De Vita asks what mentoring means, what benefits it brings for people and organisations and how to do it well.
Our guest panellists:
- Vicki Griffiths, senior project manager at marine engineering company Fugro
- Ewelina Kruk, associate director within programme and portfolio management at Incendium Consulting
- Jaspal Kaur-Griffin, head of programmes at the Bar Standards Board
January 2022 🕑 45:43
In 2022, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so throughout the year we’ll be sitting down with some of the movers and shakers who have shaped the project profession across the last few decades.
In this episode, Andrew Saunders, journalist and regular contributor to Project journal, sits down with Darren Dalcher, professor of strategic project management at the University of Lancaster.
December 2021 🕑 40:05
Project’s online editor Mike Hine looks back at the past 12 months and presents some of the key project lessons of 2021, as told to us by our guests.
So how did NASA put a rover on Mars amid a global pandemic? What are the untapped opportunities of project data analytics? And what might the UK’s vaccine taskforce programme teach us about how to streamline processes to enable quicker delivery when it really matters?
September 2021 🕑 56:07
In this episode, hosted by Mike Hine, online editor for ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Project journal, we’re looking at communication for project professionals. Communication is a vital condition for project success. However well-planned, a project will not run smoothly if stakeholders are left confused and under-informed as a consequence of inefficient communication.
August 2021 🕑 51:40
Contracts create legally binding obligations between the parties involved in a project.Ìý They describe the nature of those obligations and the actions that can be taken if they are not met.ÌýÌý
June 2021 🕑 40:13
In this episode, our topic is project success, and how the definition of success is evolving to fit the challenges of the 2020s and beyond.
May 2021 🕑 51:46
In this episode, Mike Hine, online editor for ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s Project journal, speaks to three experts working in the field of sustainability to find out more: Paul Mansell, independent major projects adviser Giulia Jones, sustainability manager, Mace Stuart Johnson, director, Stuart Johnson Consulting.
April 2021 🕑 46:32
This episode delves into the findings and analysis of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Salary and Market Trends Survey 2021 in more detail, with a focus on salary, job satisfaction, diversity and inclusion, economic confidence and more.Ìý
February 2021 🕑 50:23
This episode features contributors from academia and industry talking on the issue of project data analytics, what it means for project management and how it can benefit the delivery of successful projects.
November 2020 🕑 59:51
In this episode, our topic is how to be a great project leader. We pin down exactly what it means to lead a project and how this role is evolving to reflect the changing nature of projects and obviously in 2020, the pressures of the Covid pandemic.
September 2020 🕑 46:00
In this episode, our topic is theÌýºìÌÒÊÓƵ Body of Knowledge. One year on, the book’s co-editors – Dr Ruth Murray-Webster and Professor Darren Dalcher – co-host an episode that reflects on the changes and updates made to the seventh edition.
August 2020 🕑 58:20
In this podcast, we ask: what’s the big-picture take on project management in the UK? Is the profession given the serious recognition it deserves? And what does the future hold for project management amid the ongoing global pandemic?
June 2020 🕑 39:59
What is the future of project management as the world moves into the next stage of the COVID-19 crisis? And what are the risk factors and opportunities going forward, both for individuals and the profession?