Tom Stacey is a Deputy Head of School in the Faculty of Business and Law, in the School of Management,  Anglia Ruskin University. Tom lectures in Project, Supply Chain and Operations Management, and has worked with the Business School for six years at both Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses. Tom’s background is in IT and the automotive industry.  Before coming to teach full-time, he directed projects for businesses in the East of England, and also played a leading role in multinational projects for automotive OEMs. Having worked in two of the largest project-based industries in the UK, he is well versed in what goes right, and wrong when running projects. His research interests include:  automotive supply chains, automotive quality management, business process re-engineering, project management, lean manufacturing, sustainable business practices, decarbonisation for SMEs and SME fleet optimisation.