J. (Johan) Ninan
J. (Johan) Ninan
Profile
Dr. Johan Ninan is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands. Previously, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London (UCL). He is the editor of Social media for project management and is part of the international editorial board of journals such as the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM). He is recognized with the PMI Young Researcher Award, the IPMA Global Young Researcher Award, and the APM Paper of the Year Award.
Research interests
Dr. Ninan's research primarily focuses on the transdisciplinary design of infrastructure with a key emphasis on engaging stakeholders from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to achieve societal impact. The areas of his study encompass stakeholder engagement, collaboration, innovation, resilience, safety, information and communication technology (ICT), and project organizing. He particularly emphasizes the significance of social media in infrastructure projects and utilizes online naturalistic data from an organizational power theoretical perspective.
He has conducted extensive studies on infrastructure megaprojects in various countries, including Australia, India, the UK, and the Netherlands. His research findings have been widely published in esteemed journals, such as Policy & Society, International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, and Construction Management and Economics. Additionally, he contributes to the SAGE research methods collection titled "Doing Research Online" (DRO), and serves as the editor for the special collection on 'Novel Research Methodologies, Methods and Data in Project Studies.'
Expertise
Publications
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2023
Community engagement through social media
A comparative case study between two large infrastructure projects in Finland and India
Johan Ninan / Jere Lehtinen -
2023
Comparisons as a discursive tool
shaping megaproject narratives in the United Kingdom
Natalya Sergeeva / Johan Ninan -
2023
Foucault’s governmentality and the issue of project collaboration
Stewart Clegg / Johan Ninan
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2023
Governance Through Trust: Community Engagement in an Australian City Rebuilding Precinct
Johan Ninan / Stewart Clegg / Ashwin Mahalingam / Shankar Sankaran
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2023
Making sense of ‘new age data sets’
researching from afar
Johan Ninan / Mathangi Krishnamurthy / Ashwin Mahalingam -
Media
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2022-12-02
Project Management Institute Celebrates Contributions to Project Management Industry with Winners of 2022 PMI® Awards
Appeared in: Businesswire
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2022-06-09
How to Mobilize Narratives in Megaprojects?
Appeared in: Social Science Space
Prizes
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2022
PMI Young Researcher Award
Awarded by Project Management Institute (PMI), USA
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2020
APM Research Paper of the Year Award
Awarded by Association for Project Management (APM), UK
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2020
IPMA Global Young Researcher Award
Awarded by International Project Management Association (IPMA Global)
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2017
EPOS Outstanding Doctoral Award
Awarded by Engineering Project Organization Society (EPOS), USA
Ancillary activities
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2022-12-01 - 2024-11-30