DrVincent Hargaden

Vincent has three major research themes; (1) Workforce Planning, (2) Design and Optimisation of Supply Chains and (3) Engineering Education. (1) Workforce Planning: Continuing work from his doctoral studies, this research focuses on developing mathematical models of the workforce planning process , in particular for professional services firms. (2) Design and Optimisation of Resilient Supply Chains: He is currently co-PI in the Enterprise Ireland Dairy Processing Technology Centre , which is investigating how the dairy industry partners can design cost competitive supply chains in the EU post milk quota era. He is co-PI in the H2020 VALUMICS (Understanding Food Value Chain and Network Dynamics). Within the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Secure Societies theme, he is interested in relevant supply chain and workforce planning topics in the Disaster Resilience (DRS) and Border Security (BES) calls. This builds on previous supply chain risk and resilience work carried out within the UCD-IBM Integrated Supply Chain Consortium. Factory of the Future (FoF) calls in H2020 focusing on the modelling and design of production systems. (3) Engineering Education: Completing the UCD Professional Diploma in University Teaching and Learning in 2014 provided the basis to start investigating the use of active learning approaches in teaching Operations & Supply Chain Management modules. He is part of the UCD Learning Factory Initiative and participates in the wider European Learning Factory Initiatives.