Dr Edward Doran

Director of Quality Frameworks

• Maxwell 302
• T: 0161 295 5100
• E: e.j.doran@salford.ac.uk

Dr Edward Doran originally qualified as a chartered engineer working twenty years in the motor industry holding a number of managerial roles in production, service support and quality.  He is currently working for the University of Salford which he joined in 1986, and is a senior member of the Business School.  Dr Doran has undertaken research in the areas of quality management, robotics, team dynamics, business and management development and entrepreneurial studies presenting a number of International papers at prestigious conferences in Europe and the USA.  Management consultancy has been undertaken across a wide field of business sectors including manufacturing, health authority, police authority and service industries.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation                                     

Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation

Leadership and Management Development                  

Business Awareness/Operations Mgt

Organisational Behaviour                          

Research Design and Methodology

Project Management

Corporate Governance

Business Ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility

- Development of Overseas Institutional partnerships

- Implementation of the European Foundation for Quality Management into the Manufacturing sector, Health Authority and the Police Force.

- The Implementation of Quality Management Systems into SMEs

- The Deming Philosophy and its organisational implementation

- Team Building and establishing Improvement Teams in organisations

- Performance Improvement and Measurement

- Organisational Behaviour

1964-69 Final City and Guilds, Mechanical Engineering, NETC, Liverpool                      

1969-73  HNC and Endorsements, Production Engineering, Widnes T C

1977-86 B.A. Hons, Technology, Systems and Psychology, Open University                                           

1986-87  M.Sc by Research, Automation and Robotic Assembly, Salford University

1987-91  PhD by Research, Quality Management Systems, Salford University

PUBLICATIONS:

     Co-author of two booklets:

(1)  'The Role of the Co-ordinator' 1990

(2)  'From Theory to Strategy' 1992

       Publisher: British Deming Association

INTERNATIONAL 'PAPERS' WRITTEN/PRESENTED

(1)  Presented a paper entitled "Implementation of the International Quality Standards ISO 9000 Series" in July 1992 at the International Conference -  'Flexible Automation and Information Management 'held in Virginia USA.

(2)  Presented a paper entitled "Quality- An Interpretation of the Deming    Philosophy"  in July 1993 at the International Conference - 'Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing' held in Limerick Eire.

(3)  Presented a paper entitled "Implementation of the International Quality Standard ISO 9000 and Beyond" in September 1993 at the 26th ISATA - International Conference on Lean Manufacturing in the Automotive Industries held in the Eurogress, Aachen, Germany.

(4)  Presented a paper entitled "Manufacturing Quality Related Costs" in May 1994 at Virginia State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

(5) Paper entitled “Application of the European Quality Model in a Large UK Hospital” - International Conference, Business Excellence in Amsterdam January 1996 (Joint paper with PhD research student)

(6) Paper entitled “Self-Assessment in the Health Care Sector - A Case Study” - International Conference, TQM Development in Austria, March 1996 (Joint paper with PhD research student)

(7) Presented a paper entitled “Kaizen - A Teamwork Approach to Continuous Improvement” - International Conference in Atlanta USA May 1996

(8) Paper entitled “Employee Selection in a Total Quality Management Context: Taking a hard look at a soft issue” Published in Total Quality Management, Vol. 12, No7 &8, 2001, 855-860 (Joint paper with Dr Christopher Rees)

(9) Paper entitled “Educating the Entrepreneur” presented at the International Scientific Conference entitled, The next decade challenges for business in Riga, Latvia on 2nd February 2006. (Joint Paper with Ella Kalnina)

(10) Paper entitled “Strategic collaboration in Higher Education: a Sino-UK case study”  Journal of Knowledge-Based Innovation I China, July 2008 (Joint Paper with John Wilson and Xiang Li)