Mrs Rukaya Abowen-Dake

School of Science, Engineering & Environment

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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.

Teaching

Construction Procurement; Construction contracts; Construction social procurement; Social value in construction.

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications
  • 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