Obuks Ejohwomu is a Reader (Associate Professor) and founder of Nudge SIG (Special Interest Group) at The University of Manchester. He is the current Head of Admissions in the School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering. He is listed as one of Manchester's Heritage Heroes for the impact of his research work. Obuks is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the unit lead for commercial and procurement management.  Obuks particularly leads a research group focusing on a future sustainable built environment with expertise in decarbonised projects, indoor/outdoor air pollution monitoring using low-cost sensors, occupational health & safety and digitalisation in the built environment. Contributed to the 2024 Building Regulations by determining the principles for a Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard, as outlined in the published consultation. Recipient of the 2024 Project Management Education Award in recognition of outstanding global contributions to education. He is a Better World Showcase 2022 award winner for outstanding contributions to environmental sustainability. An award winner for notable contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He has managed grants valued at over GBP £1.3m, with funders including EPSRC, Association of Project Management (APM), GCRF, Lloyds Register Foundation, NHS Foundation Trust, and UKRI.  He is the PI on a high-impact multidisciplinary research project probing the “societal value of quality low-cost urban air monitoring in low resource environments (SQUARE).  Before joining MACE he worked as a contracts manager on several building construction projects totalling over N100m (Lukayson Ventures Ltd), a systems engineer in the telemetry and laboratory business area of Scottish Water, Glasgow, Research Assistant on a Black Country learning and skills action research project (University of Wolverhampton), Research Fellow (University of Reading) on the EPSRC Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), Programme Manager (W D Consults Ltd), Lecturer in Civil Engineering (Covenant University), Senior Lecturer in Project Management and Head, Department of Management Technology (Bells University of Technology). In the past, he has consulted for the likes of Coffey International on DFID projects (Growth and Employment in States (GEMS)) in Nigeria, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Staff Cooperative Multipurpose Society, and Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited (PPMC).  He obtained his BEng degree in Civil Engineering from UNIBEN, MSc in Systems Engineering from Heriot-Watt, and PhD in Construction Engineering and Management from Wolverhampton.  Associate Editor - Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology. Guest editor and editorial board member for some of his field’s leading journals. University of Melbourne FEIT Visiting Fellow. He is a Foundation Governor at St Edmund's Catholic Academy and Director at The Royal School. When the opportunity is available, he enjoys networking and hiking.

PhD Completion (*as PI):

1. *Societal value of nuclear decommissioning and remediation. 
2. *Assessment of user (dis)engagement in the provision of affordable housing: the case of the UK social housing sector. 
3. A building information modelling maturity model for the South African constitution industry. 
4. *Development of a project risk management framework: a case study of major African economies. 
5. *Standards-innovation relationship in projects: In the context of ship-recycling in Bangladesh.
6. *A hermeneutical approach to social value: A case study of national infrastructure planning in Oman.
7. *Development of safety leading and lagging indicators framework for contractor selection in construction projects.
8. *Standardizing carbon neutrality in the delivery of complex projects.

Ongoing PhD Supervision (*as PI):

1. *Ethics in Stakeholder Engagement for Project Sustainability (Part-Time).
2. *Risk analysis of low-carbon technological innovation in reducing building life cycle carbon emissions.
3. Exploring governance in construction Circular Economy.
4. Improving the cost modelling of environmental, social, governance using aritificial intelligence.
5. Facilitating the transition to a circular economy for cooling in developing countries.
6. *Application of operation science in production and manufacturing to improve integration management on oil and gas capital projects (Part-Time).
7. *Bridging digital transformation and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics: insights from the construction business ecosystem.