Dr Ambi Ambituuni

• PhD, School of Civil Engineering and Geoscience (Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK)
• MSc Project Management (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK)
• BSc (Hons) Building (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
• PG Cert in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Coventry University)
• NEBOSH National Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Member Associate for Project Management

Dr Ambi Ambituuni received his undergraduate degrees from Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria and proceeded to undertake an MSc in Project Management from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen after a few years working in the construction and telecommunications industry in Nigeria. He received his PhD from the School of Civil Engineering and Geoscience from Newcastle University where he worked on the risk management of petroleum transportation and distribution in Nigeria. 

Ambi is experienced in the management and leadership of teaching and learning and has held vital roles in the development of faculty-wide strategies. He has in-depth programme enhancement, leadership and development experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He oversaw many accreditation processes on various programmes. His industry experience also spans the oil and gas, and transport industries. He is a recipient of the prestigious Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) for both MSc and PhD and has won numerous research and executive training grants as the PI or Co-I from prestigious funders like NERC, AHRC, PTDF and DCMS. Ambi moved to University of Birmingham in 2022 and continues working very closely with industry in his research and teaching activities.

Ambi’s teaching is research informed. He has been the module leader of project management courses for UG, MSc, MBA and Executive MBA programmes. He is always interested in the gamification of pedagogy and the use of computer simulations to provide employability skills.

Ambi has supervised over 60 MSc and MBA dissertations and 2 PhD students to completion. His current PhD supervision interests focuses on the broad areas of: Project and energy transition; Sustainability by and for projects; Transparency and anti-corruption; Projectification and governance issues; Managing risks in a safety-critical environment; Governance of extractive industries and the intersection with livelihoods, communities and conflict risks; Optimization of construction and operation of safety-critical assets; Risk resilience, recovery, reliability and systems integrity.

Research interests 

Ambi’s research interest covers Project and energy transition; Sustainability by and for projects; Transparency and anti-corruption; Projectification and governance issues; Managing risks in a safety-critical environment; Governance of extractive industries and the intersection with livelihoods, communities and conflict risks; Optimization of construction and operation of safety-critical assets; Risk resilience, recovery, reliability and systems integrity 

Current projects 

Ambi is currently working on an AHRC funded research project that aimed at to developing an interdisciplinary network of academics and practitioners to innovatively combine livelihood studies, storytelling and risk management to develop an inclusive culturally informed livelihood recovery measures for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria? 

Through the public performance that took place in November 2022, Ambi and his team have generated and provoked ongoing community discourse on the plight of the IDPs. The team have created an active network of CSOs and members of the press to advocate for governmental and non-governmental interventions. 

The next stage of the project will leverage on this network to develop policy propositions and a risk management framework of interventions