Project management

We offer a range of courses in project management. These are underpinned by RMIT’s strong industry connections and an industry led curriculum.

Overview

Ready to be at the helm of complex projects? RMIT’s Master of Project Management is a great choice for professionals currently working in project management. Gain the upper hand by deepening your project management skills so you can work across specialised areas such as project scoping, scheduling, procurement, risk management and project leadership. If you enjoy initiating and planning projects, then you’ll love this course and gain highly desirable skills.

If you are not ready for Master program yet, you can undertake Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Project Management. These programs are offered both face to face as well as online. Online courses give you the freedom of flexible online learning and also access to all of RMIT’s excellent student resources.

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Research Interests

Name	Discipline	Main Research Interest	Secondary Interests	Research Type
Ehsan Gharaie	Construction management, Project Management, Housing	Production planning in construction, Construction safety, Project scheduling, Offsite manufacturing	Housing, Lean construction	Applied
Christina Scott Young	project management, organisational behaviour, human resource management	resilience, diversity (gender and age)	employability skills, defensive professional practice, sustainability	Applied and theory
Michelle Turner	Construction management, project management, higher education	Health and well-being (resilience, work-life balance, mental health, health promotion)		Applied and theory
Tayyab Maqsood	Project Management and Construction Management	Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technologies in Construction	Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Offsite Construction (housing and commercial) and Integration of BIM, Supply Chain Integration leading to waste minimisation in housing and commercial industries, Post-Disaster Project Management and Reconstruction (PDPM), Construction and Project Management issues in developing countries, Project Alliancing	Applied and theory
Derek Walker	Project Management and Construction Management	Collaborative integrated project delivery, Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technologies in Construction	Alliancing, IPD, Innovation difussion	qualitative mainly
Ken Farnes	Project management (Portfolio & Programme)	human element in project management, person-environment fit" of competent project managers and project success in VUCA environments from the perspective of executive & senior management	the integration of business leadership practices into project management, the integration of business knowledge into project management, early contractor involvement in project procurement	qualitative in nature and grounded in the social constructionist paradigm
Guinevere Gilbert	Project Management	Org. psych in the project context. At the moment Sarah Holdsworth and I are in a long term project to develop a tool to measure volunteer commitment to a project.	Project resilience and work readiness of students	Mostly theoretical but sometimes applied.
Farshid Rahmani	Project Management with a focus on procurement management	Early Contractor Involvement, Alliancing contracts, relational contracting, collaborative procurement methods, partnering	Delivery systems in construction, Integrated Project Delivery IPD- Building Information modelling BIM, Grounded theory research methodology	Applied and theoretical research basis
Malik Khalfan	Construction Management	Supply Chain Management and Integration, Procurement Methods, Knowledge Management	Operations Management in Construction Industry, Construction and Engineering Management, Sustainable Development, Project Management/Project Planning and Control, OSM, Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering and Readiness Assessment Tools	Applied and theoretical research basis
Maged Georgy	Project Management (but background is primarily Civil Engineering / CM / PM	Decision Support Systems (DSS) & Use of information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) in PM and CM, Project performance measurement, benchmarking and improvement, Risk management, Building information modeling BIM	Infrastructure management (particularly transportation infrastructure, Sustainability / sustainable construction, Contracts in construction (particularly claims and dispute resolution	Mostly Applied.
Koorosh Gharebhaghi	Infrastructure engineering and management Applied mathematics	Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and Management, Heavy Construction Engineering, Steel Engineering and Construction (including Modular Construction and Fabrication), Composite Materials in Construction, Structural Analysis and Design, and Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Structures	Utilisation of COGO to improve the coordination of complex geometry designs; - Instigation of advanced techniques to prolong asset life.	Applied and Theory
Peter Edwards	Construction & Project Management	Work-related stress among construction professionals.	HIV/AIDS intervention management among construction organisations. Risk management. Corruption in the construction industry. Value management. Project complexity.	Theoretical & Applied
Arun Kumar	Project Management and Civil Engineering	Resilience Infrastructure, Transport, Project management and sustainability	Collaborative research, Human factors	Applied
Bambang Trigunarsyah	Construction and Project Management	Post-disaster reconstruction project management, Infrastructure project delivery, Project and Program Governance, Constructability, Operability and Maintainability of Infrastructure project	Organisational project management, construction management, project management in developing countries	Applied, industry based
Erica Mulowayi	Project Management	Disaster Management, Post-disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, Infrastructure Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction,	Project Management and Delivery, Performance Measurement, Built Environment.	Applied
Omid Haass	Poject Management	Complex Project Management, Project Evaluation, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management, Risk Management, Project Management and AI	Narrative Inquiry, Actor-Network Theory (ANT)	Applied and Industry Focused Research

Name	Discipline	Main Research Interest	Secondary Interests	Research Type
Ehsan Gharaie	Construction management, Project Management, Housing	Production planning in construction, Construction safety, Project scheduling, Offsite manufacturing	Housing, Lean construction	Applied
Christina Scott Young	project management, organisational behaviour, human resource management	resilience, diversity (gender and age)	employability skills, defensive professional practice, sustainability	Applied and theory
Michelle Turner	Construction management, project management, higher education	Health and well-being (resilience, work-life balance, mental health, health promotion)		Applied and theory
Tayyab Maqsood	Project Management and Construction Management	Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technologies in Construction	Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Offsite Construction (housing and commercial) and Integration of BIM, Supply Chain Integration leading to waste minimisation in housing and commercial industries, Post-Disaster Project Management and Reconstruction (PDPM), Construction and Project Management issues in developing countries, Project Alliancing	Applied and theory
Derek Walker	Project Management and Construction Management	Collaborative integrated project delivery, Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technologies in Construction	Alliancing, IPD, Innovation difussion	qualitative mainly
Ken Farnes	Project management (Portfolio & Programme)	human element in project management, person-environment fit" of competent project managers and project success in VUCA environments from the perspective of executive & senior management	the integration of business leadership practices into project management, the integration of business knowledge into project management, early contractor involvement in project procurement	qualitative in nature and grounded in the social constructionist paradigm
Guinevere Gilbert	Project Management	Org. psych in the project context. At the moment Sarah Holdsworth and I are in a long term project to develop a tool to measure volunteer commitment to a project.	Project resilience and work readiness of students	Mostly theoretical but sometimes applied.
Farshid Rahmani	Project Management with a focus on procurement management	Early Contractor Involvement, Alliancing contracts, relational contracting, collaborative procurement methods, partnering	Delivery systems in construction, Integrated Project Delivery IPD- Building Information modelling BIM, Grounded theory research methodology	Applied and theoretical research basis
Malik Khalfan	Construction Management	Supply Chain Management and Integration, Procurement Methods, Knowledge Management	Operations Management in Construction Industry, Construction and Engineering Management, Sustainable Development, Project Management/Project Planning and Control, OSM, Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering and Readiness Assessment Tools	Applied and theoretical research basis
Maged Georgy	Project Management (but background is primarily Civil Engineering / CM / PM	Decision Support Systems (DSS) & Use of information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) in PM and CM, Project performance measurement, benchmarking and improvement, Risk management, Building information modeling BIM	Infrastructure management (particularly transportation infrastructure, Sustainability / sustainable construction, Contracts in construction (particularly claims and dispute resolution	Mostly Applied.
Koorosh Gharebhaghi	Infrastructure engineering and management Applied mathematics	Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and Management, Heavy Construction Engineering, Steel Engineering and Construction (including Modular Construction and Fabrication), Composite Materials in Construction, Structural Analysis and Design, and Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Structures	Utilisation of COGO to improve the coordination of complex geometry designs; - Instigation of advanced techniques to prolong asset life.	Applied and Theory
Peter Edwards	Construction & Project Management	Work-related stress among construction professionals.	HIV/AIDS intervention management among construction organisations. Risk management. Corruption in the construction industry. Value management. Project complexity.	Theoretical & Applied
Arun Kumar	Project Management and Civil Engineering	Resilience Infrastructure, Transport, Project management and sustainability	Collaborative research, Human factors	Applied
Bambang Trigunarsyah	Construction and Project Management	Post-disaster reconstruction project management, Infrastructure project delivery, Project and Program Governance, Constructability, Operability and Maintainability of Infrastructure project	Organisational project management, construction management, project management in developing countries	Applied, industry based
Erica Mulowayi	Project Management	Disaster Management, Post-disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, Infrastructure Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction,	Project Management and Delivery, Performance Measurement, Built Environment.	Applied
Omid Haass	Poject Management	Complex Project Management, Project Evaluation, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management, Risk Management, Project Management and AI	Narrative Inquiry, Actor-Network Theory (ANT)	Applied and Industry Focused Research