Professor Linda Hendry
Distinguished ProfessorMy Role
Distinguished Professor of Operations Management
Research Overview
My main ongoing research interest is in Sustainable Supply Chain Management including projects to address: sustainable packaging innovations to reduce plastic waste; sustainable sourcing involving emerging economies; sustainable global supplier development and supply chain responses to modern slavery legislation. She also has extensive expertise in manufacturing strategy, planning and control for product customisation contexts.
Current Research
- UKRI Industrial Strategy funded project: Plastic Packaging in People's Lives - aiming to reduce plastic packaging in the food supply chain by bridging the consumer attitude-behaviour gap;
- The impact of COVID-19 on supply chain sustainability;
- Investigation of Local Buying as a sustainable, socially responsible sourcing strategy;
- The impact of Modern Slavery Legislation on socially responsible sourcing in the global fashion and textiles industry;
- Social sustainability issues in global supply chains.
Current Teaching
Postgraduate Supervision of PhD students and Masters Student Dissertations
Other Teaching Competence Operations Management at all levels of UG and PG teaching; Supply Chain Management; Quantitative techniques for decision makingat UG and PG level; Post experience: Manufacturing Insitute master's dissertation supervisor and module convenor - Module 4, World Class Manufacturing, for MSc in Manufacturing Leadership.
Qualifications
BSc, PhD Lancaster
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Modern Slavery, Justice and Complex Supply Chains
01/01/2024 → …
Research
LU GCRF Block Grant and Newton & FCRI: Plastic Packaging in Peoples Lives - Malaysia
03/10/2022 → 30/09/2023
Research
Plastic Packaging in Peoples' Lives (PPiPL): Bridging the consumer attitude-behaviour gap
01/11/2020 → 31/05/2024
Research
Plastic Packaging in Peoples' Lives (PPiPL): Bridging the consumer attitude-behaviour gap
01/11/2020 → 31/10/2023
Research
Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Global Coffee Industry: the case of Brazilian coffee suppliers
25/11/2019 → …
Research
Homeworking: Another form of Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain
01/01/2019 → …
Research
Sustainability-oriented supplier development in Global Supply Chains
01/10/2018 → …
Research
Modern Slavery Legislation: Investigating the impact on the supply chain practices of the textile industry
01/01/2016 → …
Research
Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Higher Education Sector in the UK
01/10/2015 → …
Research
Transforming People and Processes for a Better World
Invited talk
Webinar for Primark Global Partners on 'Training of Trainers'
Business Course/Training
Panel Discussion: Packaging Today
Invited talk
UKSS International Conference 2023
Participation in conference - Academic
Webinar for Primark Global Team on Training of Trainers
Business Course/Training
BPF Sustainability and Plastics 2023: Weighing social responses to the challenges of waste plastics
Invited talk
Webinar for Primark Global Suppliers
Business Course/Training
Advancing Plastic Waste Reduction in Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Stakeholder Perspective
Invited talk
Panel Discussion: Plastics Sustainability: myth busting and the human factor
Invited talk
Futures work at Lancaster University no.2: The little book of plastics in everyday life
Invited talk
The future of recycling
Invited talk
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Perspectives on the Consumer Attitude-Behaviour Gap
Oral presentation
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Perspectives on the Consumer Attitude-Behaviour Gap
Invited talk
Plastic packaging in People's Lives (PPiPL): From farm to fork and beyond?
Invited talk
PPiPL: Valuing the afterlives of materials
Invited talk
Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives: Reflections on Engaged Academic Research
Invited talk
LUMS What Matters Now
Other
Plastic Packaging in Peoples Lives: from farm to fork and beyond?
Invited talk
Why We still Buy the products of Modern Slaves
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Oral presentation
Responsibility and Plastic Packaging: Exploring the issues for the packaging supply chain
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
7th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
21st IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes) 2019 Fashion Futures Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
6th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Universities for the Promotion of Fair and Sustainable Business Practices
Invited talk
IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes) 2018 Fashion Futures, Shanghai, China
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
5th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
5th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Journal)
Editorial activity
24th EurOMA Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
23rd EurOMA Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
3rd International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
3rd International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
Visiting an external academic institution
2nd International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
2nd International EUROMA Sustainable Operations & Supply Chains Forum, Barcelona, 2015
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
22nd Annual EUROMA Conference, Switzerland, 2015
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Finland Academy (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Cranfield University
Visiting an external academic institution
Groningen University
Visiting an external academic institution
21st European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
1st International EurOMA Sustainable Operations & Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
1st International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
20th Annual EurOMA conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4th POM World conference - Invited speaker
Invited talk
Sustainable Supply Chain Management Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Nottingham University
Visiting an external academic institution
Production and Operations Management (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Tenth International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2012)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4th POM World Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Cambridge University
Visiting an external academic institution
University of Bath
Visiting an external academic institution
POMS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
EUROMA Annual Conference, Cambridge, 2011
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Aston University
Visiting an external academic institution
Groningen University Invited Seminar
Invited talk
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Visiting an external academic institution
EurOMA
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International working Seminar on Production Economics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Hong Kong International Workshop on Successful Strategies in Supply Chain Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
POMS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Hong Kong International Workshop on Successful Strategies in Supply Chain Management, January 2009 - Plenary speaker
Invited talk
EurOMA
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Manufacturing Professors Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New Ideas in Order Fulfilment Research Symposium
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
International Working Seminar on Production Economics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New Ideas in Order Fulfilment Research Symposium, Nottingham, UK, 2008 – Invited speaker
Invited talk
EurOMA
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Operations Management Association (External organisation)
Membership of committee
International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Journal of Production Economics (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Journal of Production Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Production Planning and Control (Journal)
Publication peer-review
European Operations Management Association (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
EurOMA (European Operations Management Association) Board Member
Election to learned society
Harry Boer Highly Commended Paper Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
Highly Commended Paper Award 2021
Prize (including medals and awards)
Highly Commended Paper Award 2019
Prize (including medals and awards)
Outstanding Paper Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
Outstanding Paper Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
EurOMA Fellowship Award
Fellowship awarded competitively
- Centre for Consumption Insights
- Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
- Pentland Centre
- Supply Chain Management