DrDominic Doe Ahiaga-Dagbui

Guest Editor of Policy Contributions: Engaging with Policy Driven by research impact beyond academia, the goal of this special issue is to bridge the long‑standing gap between project management research and public policy by encouraging research that actively engages with policymakers and societal challenges. It seeks contributions that move beyond inward‑looking academic debates to demonstrate how project leadership and management research can inform, shape, and improve policy decisions and project delivery in areas such as infrastructure, sustainability transitions, economic development, and governance. This special issue aims to position project scholarship as a service to society—providing timely, contextual insights on what works (and what does not), strengthening the evidence base for decision‑makers, and fostering genuine dialogue between researchers, policy makers, and project leaders.

An interview with the Herald Sun on expensive cost overruns in the transport sector in Australia. This followed a published report by the Megaprojects Research Group called "Optimising Major Project Delivery: Maximising value through an outcome-based procurement approach"

"Deakin researcher warns of cost blowout" Roads and Infrastructure (August 2019)

Based on an invited talk at Curtin University, Australia, May 2016 on the status quo of decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms in the UK and what Australia might be able to learn from that experience

This award was for the paper titled Spotlight on construction cost overrun research: superficial, replicative and stagnated at the 31st Annual international ARCOM conference. The paper, co-athored with Dr Simon D Smith (University of Edinburgh), Prof Peter ED Love (Curtin University, Australia) and Prof Fran Ackermann (Curtin University, Australia), explores some of the embedded methodological weaknesses in a majority of construction cost overrun research, particularly the lack of systems thinking and demonstrable causality.

Committee Member, Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM), UK, (2015-2017)

Scientific Committee, Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) (since 2011)

Scientific Committee, West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference. http://www.waberconference.com/

Scientific Committee, International Conference on Infrastructure Development in Africa (ICIDA), (since 2014)