The project course in Humanitarian Logistics is a course where groups of students are paired up with companies and NGOs to work on a specific project. During previous years, actors like IMPACCT, HEUREKA Kuehne+Nagel Denmark, and FRC have participated in the course on the company/NGO side. It also required us identify the strengths and bottlenecks […]
This blog post provides a Q&A type of an introduction to some of the teachers at Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics. The teachers elaborate on their academic specialisation areas Diego Vega What is your specialization area? Within humanitarian logistics I specialise in two things: Logistics Service Providers, either commercial […]
This blog post presents the topics of our current PhD researchers at the subject of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility. Humanitarian logistics in conflict and complex emergencies – Tamara Kirkwood-Wright The focus of my research is to identify what localisation involves and how effective different elements of a localisation strategy will be when implemented […]
Why did I decide to pursue a PhD? After completing my master’s degree at Hanken, I worked in the industry for a few years. However, I kept thinking about my master’s thesis topic and the writing process, always with the feeling that I wanted to go back into academia to deepen and enhance my theoretical […]