Alistair Bogaars

Dr Alistair Bogaars PhD, MSc, BSc Hons

Senior Lecturer in Project Management

Alistair is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, Operations and Strategy in the Greenwich Business School, prior to this Alistair was employed as a Teaching Fellow in the Department for Systems Management and Strategy from September 2020-2021.

Alistair completed his PhD with the Greenwich Business School in March 2021 - his thesis examined fuel and transport poverty, with respect to Government policy in the UK. Alistair completed an MSc Environmental Conservation (2010) and BSc Environmental Biology with European Study (1997) with the School of Science at the University of Greenwich. He is an active member of the Connected Cities Research Group (CCRG) where he leads on Sustainable Transport research.

Alistair has a keen interest in pedagogy research and is participating in several projects supported by the Scholarship Excellence in Business Education (SEBE) group at the University of Greenwich.

Alistair has been a member of the University of Greenwich LGBT+ Staff Community since December 2020, and he has participated in range of activities including the training on Trans and Non-Binary Inclusion and the Allyship and Bystander Training Project.

Responsibilities within the university

Alistair is the Programme Leader for the BA Hons Business with Marketing and Business with Finance Programmes.

Alistair is a Module Leader for the TRAN 1063 Introduction to Logistics and Transport (Level 4), BUSI 1318 Advanced Project Management (Level 6) and TRAN 1028 Sustainable Transport (Level 6) modules. Alistair also teaches on the BUSI 1333 Introduction to Business Process (Level 4), BUSI 1637 Discover Project Management (Level 4), BUSI 1712 Project Planning and Management (Level 5) and BUSI 1668 Integrated Operations Management (Level 7) Modules.

Alistair is the placement tutor for two students on the BUSI 1636 Placement Module.

Alistair is currently supervising Master’s student dissertations on the Executive MBA and MA programmes in the Business School.

Alistair is an active mentor for the University of Greenwich Enterprise Challenge.

  • Alistair’s 2020/21 mentee – Alina Hlihor (Civil Engineering) won the Most Social Impact (audience choice) winning £500 with ‘The Green Atom’ in March 2021.
  • Alistair’s 2021/22 mentees were Inna Halasyova and Andreas Arany-Toth (Design) who were semi-finalists with the ‘Design Dynamo’ Social Enterprise project.

Recognition

Alistair is currently working towards Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Research / Scholarly interests

Alistair is an active member of the Connected Cities Research Group (CCRG) and Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) at the University of Greenwich.

Alistair is currently working on research related to Sustainable Transport and Waste, Smart Cities, Co-teaching, Student Employability Success and the Greenwich Student Green Hub.

Recent publications

Publication in review:

Pappu, A. and Bogaars, A. (2022) An examination of co-teaching in an online environment, Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching.

Presentations

Conference

Presentation Title

University of Greenwich Learning and Teaching Festival 2021 (online)

The Challenge of Authentic Assessment (23/06/22).

University of Greenwich SHIFT 2022 (online)

Educator reflections on teaching sustainability in the Greenwich Business School (11/01/22).

RGS-IBG 2021 - Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Car Dependence session TGRG (online)

Urban space: exploring the potential for active travel to reduce car dependence (03/09/21).

UTSG 2021 – EDI session (online)

An examination of transport poverty in the UK (06/07/21).

University of Greenwich Learning and Teaching Festival 2021 (online)

An examination of co-teaching in an online environment based on tutor experience and observations (24/06/21).

RGS-IBG 2019 - Current and Emerging Research in Transport sessions TGRG (Imperial College London)

The state of transport poverty in the UK – Short version (28/08/19).

RGS-TGRG 'Research Into Policy and Practice' Event 2019 (Department for Transport)

The state of transport poverty in the UK – Short version (27/08/19).

University of Greenwich SUPF/NUSC Conference 2019 (Greenwich Maritime Campus)

The state of transport poverty in the UK – Long version (09/07/19).