Dr Sufian Fannoun

Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader

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School of Computing and Engineering Sciences
s.fannoun@chester.ac.uk
Dr Sufian Fannoun

Sufian is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for MSc Programme and Project Management. He has twenty years of experience in teaching, developing, and managing projects at the higher education sector. He has hands-on experience as Senior lecturer, Researcher, Team Leader and Project Manager.

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Over 20 years, Sufian has designed and implemented undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science and Project Management. Sufian has taught several UG and PG module in the following fields:

  • Project Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Software Development
  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Languages
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Business Intelligence

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Sufian is an active researcher and reviewer for number of reputable Journals such as SAGE Management Learning , Taylor and Francis Group -Knowledge Management , and Emerald -Learning Organisation Journal.

His current research interests include Project management, Knowledge management and Information systems. Sufian is supervising PhD thesis and happy to accept PhD students in topics that fall within his research remit at the University of Chester.

Published Journal Papers

Fannoun, S. (2021). Towards effective project management and knowledge transfer enhancement: A novel system capturing and modelling knowledge acquired in a software development practice. ChesterRep.

Fannoun, S., & Kerins, J. (2019). Towards organisational learning enhancement: assessing software engineering practice. Emerald the Learning Organisation. 26(1), 44-59. 

Fannoun, S., & Kerins, J. (2018). Evaluating current practice and proposing a system to enhance knowledge assets within a small software development unit. IEEE Xplore, 236-240.

Journal Papers in Submission

Kerins, J., & Fannoun, S. (2022). A Lexical frequency visualising tool supporting data analysis. The Qualitative Research Journal- Emerald.

Fannoun, S., & Kerins, J. (2022). A sparse approach to the utilisation of knowledge resources in a software development unit. VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems.

Conference Papers and Presentations

The University of Oxford, UK. 2018 4th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM 2018)

2018, the University of Liverpool, UK. International Conference of Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities

2017, University of Konstanz, Germany. 18th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organisations.

2017, Goldsmith University of London Conference. Oral presentation and a poster paper.

2017, the University of Central Lancashire, UK. PhD symposium. Poster paper and oral presentation.

2013, Lund University, Sweden. Conference. IT project management life-cycle models.

2013, Brighton University, UK. Seminars, UK higher education teaching and research system.

2012, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Conference. Managing International Projects.

2010, University Collage Cork, Ireland. International Conference. ECTS and Bologna system implementation at EU higher education institutions.

  • BSc Eng. (1st Class Honours)
  • MSc
  • PhD