Pauline Teo

Dr. Pauline Teo

Senior Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Pauline is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management. She also undertakes the role as the Deputy Program Manager for Construction Management discipline.

Pauline is an industry-focused researcher, mainly in the area of infrastructure projects. She has a wide range of research interest which includes construction quality and safety, Artificial Intelligence and risk management, infrastructure procurement, and Public-Private Partnerships. Pauline's scholarly contributions were published in Q1 journals, such as, International Journal of Project Management, Production Planning and Control, Applied Ergonomics, Safety Science, and ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. She is also a member of the CIB W122 PPP Working Commission. As an early career researcher, she has over 765 citations and h-index 14 ( Google Scholar).

Pauline is an active member within the school. She undertakes various administrative duties as the Deputy Program Manager and is also part of the Ngulu and Belonging Committee, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, a project lead of the indigenous subcommittee, and the School's Reconciliation Action Plan representative.

Research fields

  • 3302 Building
  • 350505 Occupational and workplace health and safety
  • 3399 Other built environment and design

Academic positions

  • Senior Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • School of Property, Construction and Project Management
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2023 – Present
  • Deputy Program Manager
  • RMIT University
  • School of Property, Construction and Project Management
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2020 – Present
  • Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • School of Property, Construction and Project Management
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2017 – 2022
  • ARC Post Doctoral Research Fellow
  • Curtin University
  • Perth, Australia
  • 2014 – 2017

Non-academic positions

  • Quantity Surveyor
  • Prior to Academia, Pauline is an experienced Quantity Surveyor both in Australia and Singapore. She has been involved in numerous institutional, commercial, and low and high-rise residential projects.
  • , Australia
  • 2003 – 2010

Supervisor projects

  • Public-Private Partnerships for affordable housing in India and Australia
  • 7 Feb 2024
  • Risk management of Public-Private-Partnerships using Artificial Intelligence
  • 6 Apr 2023

Research interests

Public-Private Partnerships, Artificial Intelligence, Risk Management, Construction quality and safety, and Infrastructure procurement

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