Emine Zehra Akgün

Emine is an Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. She received her PhD from Transport Research Institute (Edinburgh Napier University) in 2021. Her work mainly focused on exploring urban freight and mobility strategies of public sector organisations through the lenses of public policy and public management theories. In addition, Emine also works on digital transformation challenges in public sector organisations (as a case of public sector innovation). She publishes her research in various outlets such as Transport Policy, Public Policy and Administration, and International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications.

Emine will be working on the System Interdependencies Module to investigate the relationships between the asset (i.e., railways) and other assets, networks, users and various contexts it interacts with. This investigation will then lead to further work on establishing the scope for the assets to be considered in investment decisions and on establishing sources of information in order to make a decision.