Wayne Harrop

Main Duties: Responsible for industry partnerships, and the centre's applied research Held the position of programme manager for CPD studies in Emergency Management and Business Continuity Management

Qualifications:

• B.A (Hons), Disaster Studies, Coventry University
• Certificate, SITO
• CAN, Environmental Science

Research Interests:

• Resilience
• Business Continuity Management
• Security and Crisis Management
• Pandemic planning strategies
• Counter terrorism
• Emergency Management
• Risk Management (including Dynamic and analytical risk)
• Aviation Security

Selected Outputs:

• Harrop, W. (2005) 'Business Continuity Spotlight Falls on SMEs'. Computer Weekly Magazine

Selected Funding:

• 2008, Developing multinational client bank of exercise scenarios for international operations, Private Sector, £30,000

Teaching:

• Responsible for the partial delivery of taught MSc modules and Diploma tuition to career professionals undertaking study in Business Continuity Management and Emergency Planning
• Support a range of undergraduate disaster management programmes taught in the Centre for Disaster Management
• Module leader on intensive postgraduate studies covering business continuity, risk assessment modules and final research dissertation projects.
• Project and programme management, incident management with specific case studies drawn from terrorism and natural disasters such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina

Other Responsibilities:

• Director of the Centre for Disaster Management (ARG) specialising in industry facing CPD activities, applied research and international programme delivery spanning crisis, continuity, security emergency and risk management domains