Dr Gloria Oliomogbe

Senior Lecturer in Business and Management

Email: ad9732@coventry.ac.uk

Dr Gloria Oliomogbe is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at Coventry University London and Course Director for the MBA Global Business and MBA Leadership in the Age of AI. She leads modules on Digital, Data and Decision-making Skills on the MBA Leadership in the Age of AI and Project Management in the Digital Era on the MSc International Project Management programme.

Dr Oliomogbe's research journey has focused on understanding how organisations derive value from project management capabilities. Her PhD research investigated the intangible benefits derived from project management deployment and identified organisational, human-centric and relational capabilities, moderated by digital technology, as important contributors to organisational competitiveness.

As a module leader, Dr Oliomogbe is responsible for curriculum design, content development and teaching. Her past module leadership and teaching responsibilities include Project Planning and Budgeting, Quality and Change Control in Project Environment, and Advanced Project Management. She is adept at contextualising project management, digital technologies, data and artificial intelligence so that students can understand the interconnected relationship between projects, organisational capability and competitive advantage. She also serves as Dissertation Supervisor for MSc and MBA students.

Since May 2024, Dr Oliomogbe has played an active role in embedding generative AI across modules and programmes, working collaboratively to promote responsible, inclusive and industry-aligned engagement with digital and AI tools. Her teaching practice focuses on developing students' digital confidence through active, social and authentic learning experiences while encouraging critical consideration of ethics, sustainability and professional responsibility.

Her research interests span AI in Higher Education, project management, digital transformation and organisational competitiveness, with particular interest in project value, project management value and the intangible benefits organisations derive from project management deployment.

Dr Oliomogbe was a Major Project Association Grant Recipient in 2013 and recipient of the Coventry University Engineering Prize for overall performance in Engineering Project Management in 2008.

Qualifications

• PhD Engineering Project Management, University of Leeds (2017)
• MSc Engineering Project Management, Coventry University (2008)
• BSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos (2005)

Professional and Industry Memberships

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE)
• Member, Association for Project Management (MAPM)
• Member, Project Management Institute

Research and Consultancy

Dr Oliomogbe's research explores how organisations create and sustain competitive advantage through project management capabilities, digital transformation and emerging technologies. Her work examines the organisational, human and relational capabilities developed through project management deployment and the role of digital technologies in enhancing these capabilities.

Her current interests include AI in higher education, digital transformation, project value and project management value, with a particular focus on how organisations and educational institutions can leverage technological innovation responsibly to improve performance, learning and competitiveness.

Publications and Scholarship Activities

• Brookes, N., Glass, Jacqui., Castro, A., Locatelli, G., & Oliomogbe, G. (2020) Eliminating Modern Slavery from projects. APM Research Fund Series, APM
  
  
• Brookes, N. J., Hickey, R., Littau, P., Locatelli, G. & Oliomogbe, G. O. (2015). Using Multi-case Approaches in Project Management Research: The Megaproject Experience. In: PERSIAN, B. (ed.) Designs, Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management. Surrey, UK: Gower Publishing Limited
  
  
• Oliomogbe, G. O. & Smith, N. J. (2013) Does the Deployment of Project Management itself provides benefits? Both Tangible and Intangible. In: Smith, S. D. & Ahiaga-Dagbui, D. D., eds. 29th Annual ARCOM Conference 2-4 September 2013, Reading. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 881-891.
  
  
• Oliomogbe, G. O. & Smith, N. J. (2012) Value in Megaprojects. Organisation, Technology and Management, an International Journal, 4, 617.