Project set up by a consortium of European and Far Eastern universities to
examine the emergency response supply chain.
REMESH was a project set up by a consortium of European and Far Eastern universities to examine the emergency response supply chain. Liverpool John Moores University (UK) led the consortium, and other members were University of Manchester (UK), Lund University (Sweden), Universidad de Granada (Spain), Dublin City University (Ireland), Mahidol University (Thailand), Vietnam National University (Vietnam) and Wuhan University of Technology (China). University of Bonn was initially a member but unfortunately had to retire from the project in 2020. The EU funded the project under the Horizon 2020 MSCA RISE program, grant agreement 823759. The project held its kick-start meeting in Liverpool in 2019, was postponed during the Covid 19 epidemic, restarted in June 2022, and ended at the end of February 2025.
DCU Business School arranged a total of 23 person-months of secondments from DCU to East Asia and 13 person-months of secondments from East Asia into DCU. Secondees were
mostly doctoral students although several staff members also traveled.
Outgoing secondments were from the Business School, School of Computing and School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
Incoming secondments were from Mahidol University and Vietnam National University.
Secondees from the Business School were:
Jack Campbell (to Mahidol University, November 2023)
Anand Kumar (to Mahidol University, December 2023)
Tam Nguyen (to Mahidol, January 2024; VNU Hanoi, February 2024)
Adeela Farquan (to Mahidol, April 2024; VNU Hanoi, May 2024)
Jennifer Martin (to Mahidol University, December 2024 and January 2025)
Dr Sandeep Rao (to Mahidol University, January 2025)
Secondees from the School of Computing were:
Onanong Konmeesub (to Mahidol University, June 2023)
Dr Liting Zhou (to Mahidol University, June 2023)
Prof Cathal Gurrin (Vietnam National University, June 2023)
Dr Tai Tan Mai (to Vietnam National University, July and August 2023 and June 2024)
Linh Tran (Vietnam National University, December 2023 and January 2024)
Boi Quach (Vietnam National University, March and April 2024)
Thao-Nyu Nguyen (Mahidol, June 2024; VNU, July 2024)
Secondees from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering were:
Halima Boutouil (July 2024)
Secondees from East Asia hosted by DCU Business School were:
Atchara Dokkulab (from Mahidol University, June to August 2023)
Than Thung Hoang (from Vietnam National University, Sept and Oct 2024)
Thi To Nga Pham (from Vietnam National University, Sept and Oct 2024)
Asan Uttankanchana (from Mahidol University, September to November 2024)
Khun Aye Han Kyu (from Mahidol University, Oct 2024 to January 2025)
REMESH organised annual workshops online (October 2022) and in Granada (August 2023). The project also produced a number of specific reports including a report on the use of big data in emergency response prepared by DCU.
Many thanks are extended to the Principal Investigators in East Asia who hosted the DCU secondees: Dr Jiripan Liangrokapart at Mahidol University and Prof Ha Nam Nguyen at Vietnam National University. Our secondees spoke very highly of their hosts and of their valuable experiences at Mahidol and VNU.
Thanks also go to our partner Principal Investigators: Prof Andreas Norman (Lund University), Prof Daniel Arias-Arianda
(Universidad de Granada), Prof Dongling Xu (University of Manchester) and Prof Xinping Yan (Wuhan University of Technology). Special thanks go to Prof Jun Ren of Liverpool John Moores University who was overall project director and who carried out stalwart work on behalf of the project.
Many thanks also go to Muriel Keegan, Finance Officer at DCU Business School who managed the funding of travel and living expenses for our outgoing secondees, and to Ruth
Finnegan, Research Support Officer at DCU Business School who organized invitation letters, library access cards and office space for our incoming secondees.
This report was prepared in April 2024 by Dr Malcolm Brady, Principal investigator for the REMESH project at DCU Business School. For further information, please contact him at malcolm.brady@dcu.ie