Mrs Rukaya Abowen-Dake
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Lecturer in Quantity Surveying
Biography
Rukaya Abowen-Dake is a Lecturer in Quantity Surveying in the School of Science, Engineering & Environment. She has over 10 years teaching experience in UK higher education. Her teaching interests relate to construction procurement and contract administration. Rukaya has research interests in social value in construction, local stakeholder engagement, construction project procurement systems and related contracts, processes, resources, and how these mechanisms are utilised by procuring entities to promote social sustainability for communities. Her current research (PhD) focuses on social value in construction and social procurement in public institutions.
Areas of Research
Social sustainability; Social justice; Procurement-Construction social procurement; Social value in construction; Stakeholder involvement and engagement; Construction contracts.
Lecturer in Quantity Surveying
Module Leader for QS Private Practice and Commercial Management (Level 6)
Module Leader for Procurment and Administration (Level 5)
Module Leader for Construction Law, Procedure and Regulation (Level 4)
Lecturer for Building Procurement and Contract Administration (Level 7)
Lecturer for PG Dissertation (Qualitative Research) (Level 7)
Lecturer for Introduction to the Role of the Quantity Surveyor (Level 4)
UG Disciplinary Research Project Supervior (Level 6)
PG Dissertation Supervisor
Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy
2020 -
MSc Quantity Surveying
2016 - 2018 -
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning
2013 - 2014 -
BSc Quantity Surveying and HNC in Construction
2008 - 2012