Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors : Fellow

Chartered Institute of Building : Fellow

Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction : Editor-in-Chief

The history of healthcare facilities management services: a UK perspective on infection control

Application of the Delphi technique in healthcare maintenance

Review of Motivations, Success Factors, and Barriers to the Adoption of Offsite Manufacturing in Nigeria

Empirical Study of Project Governance among Chinese Project Management Professionals

Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for achieving sustainable social housing (SSH)

Construction Innovation and Process Improvement

Policy, Management and Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships: Managing Risks and Opportunities

Achieving Value for Money in Capital Build Projects (Spon Research)

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Professor Akintoye, Dean of School of Built Environment and Engineering, joined the University in 2017. He holds the Chair of Construction Economics and Management.

Professor Akintoye joined University of Salford in 1989 where he completed his PhD in 1991. After he completed his PhD, he worked briefly with Reading University on a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor funded research project and with Salford University College as Lecturer in Construction Technology.

In 1994, Akin left Salford University College to join Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) as a Lecturer in Quantity Surveying and was promoted Senior Lecturer and Reader. Whilst at GCU, he undertook a number of roles including Subject Leader and Director of Research. In 1999, he was promoted to Professor of Construction Economics and Management and became Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the School of Built and Natural Environment in 2002, with responsibility for developing the School’s research and knowledge transfer strategy and Research Assessment Exercise. Akin was elected the Chair of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management in 2000.

In 2008, Akin moved to the University of Central Lancashire to be Head of School of the newly formed School of Built and Natural Environment. Here, he grew and diversified its academic portfolio at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, substantially increasing its international reach with partnerships, franchises and collaborations in South East Asia and Africa.  He established the School’s Part One and Two programmes in Architecture with RIBA validation and a degree programme in Civil Engineering. In 2011, he became Dean of Grenfell-Baines School of Architecture, Construction and Environment where he was Chair of the School Executive Team and a member of the University Senior Management Group. Upon the academic restructuring of the University, he became Director of Research and Innovation at the College of Science and Technology in 2015 with the responsibility for overseeing the College Research Excellence Framework in nine (9) Units of Assessment. He was in this role until 2017 when he moved to Leeds Beckett University as the Dean of School of Built Environment and Engineering.

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