Dr Janet Smart

Dr Janet Smart

Academic Advisor

Janet’s areas of expertise include systems engineering, complex systems, programme management, and the design, delivery and management of large complex projects.

Before retiring from her academic career at Oxford University in September 2021, Janet taught operations management, project management and systems thinking at undergraduate, MSc, MBA and executive levels at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She also taught at the School’s Major Projects Leadership Academy for senior civil servants in the UK, where she still helps out with assessing the work of students on these programmes.

Janet took her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Oxford, and her PhD in computing at the University of Durham. She is currently completing an MPhil in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, with a dissertation on James Joyce.

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Fellowship Project Calls for Action on Abuse of Political Candidates in Northern Ireland

A group of leaders from the Centre for Democracy and Peace’s Fellowship Programme have designed a new initiative tackling the abuse and intimidation faced by political candidates in Northern Ireland. As part of the programme’s design thinking module, the team explored real-life challenges and developed solutions aimed at fostering a safer and more inclusive political environment.