Dr Sepideh Arkani
Dr Sepideh Arkani is leader of Theme 2: Procurement for Innovation in HaCIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre), a £7.5 million programme of research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and involving four universities. She is responsible for the development and management of research on the practice of built environment infrastructure procurement that enables service providers to deliver effective healthcare.
Sepideh is a trained architect with five years practice experience in the industry. She has an MSc in Construction Economics and Management from the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London. Sepideh completed her PhD at the School of Business and Management, University of Greenwich. She has a particular research interest in building infrastructure procurement methods and their impact on project participants' behaviour and performance. Her other research interests include planning process of healthcare infrastructure projects, power and politics in building project coalitions, and procurement of repair and maintenance services in local authority housing in the UK.
E-mail Dr Sepideh Arkani at: s.arkani@reading.ac.uk
Publications list:
Conference or Workshop Item
Arkani, S. (2008) Innovation in the planning and delivery of infrastructure in the National Health Service. In: Redefining healthcare infrastructure, integrating services, technologies and the built environment, Imperial College, London.
Arkani, S. (2008) The business case development process in the delivery of NHS infrastructure. In: Building abroad, procurement of construction and reconstruction projects in the international context i-Rec, CIB W92, CIB TG63 and CIB W107, University of Montreal, Canada, p. 14.