Dr Hannah Wilson

Reader in Workplace Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University

Hannah is a Reader in Workplace Psychology and DBA Programme Leader at Liverpool John Moores University. Hannah’s research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding workplace experience, considering people, place, and culture of organisations, with real-world application. Her innovative research links psychological concepts to the management of people and workplaces in the emergent field of work psychology, combining concepts from organisational psychology, environmental psychology, workplace and the built environment. She has experience on a range of international research projects, industry, European and nationally funded. She has been involved in successful research projects and successfully won four competitive external research grants. Hannah is accomplished at supporting both Professional Doctorate and PhD routes with a high level of theoretical and practical impact. Hannah was a co-investigator with Prof Bryde on the APM-funded project investigating the coping strategies adopted by project managers to deal with difficult stakeholders

Session: Using gamification in managing relational risk in projects

This interactive session will introduce delegates to the concept of relational risk, which is the potential for adverse outcomes that arise from people interactions, relationships, or networks. It will also introduce delegates to the use of games in work contexts, including in project environments.

The session will demonstrate how a particular project management game, called NODEL^®, which is card-based and can be used at different stages of the project life cycle, has been played by teams to mitigate relational risk.

Academic research undertaken by the speakers into the benefits of playing the game will also be shared; with this research involving the collection of data using established measures from organisational psychology, such as “work self-efficacy”; where work self-efficacy is a measure of a person’s belief that they have the capacity to perform and deliver.

The objectives of the session are as follows:

To explain the concept of relational risk
To introduce project management methods to mitigate and manage relational risk
To explain the concept of gamification in work contexts, including project environments
To demonstrate, with an example, how the project management game NODEL^®, is played
To share academic research as to the impact of NODEL^® on individuals
To share the experiences of individuals that have played the game