Hon. Prof. Tom Chadwick

Profile

Books

1997 ‘SVQ Assessor’s Guidelines: Procurement Levels III & IV’ (forty page booklet co-authored with Howard McCulloch) published by the Scottish Qualifications Authority

1995 Book ‘Strategic Supply Management - An implementation toolkit’ (co -authored with Dr Shan Rajagopal) published by Butterworth Heinemann

Book chapters

2002 Book chapter ‘Purchasing in the Higher Education Sector’ for Gower Handbook of Purchasing 3rd Edition edited by Day, M.

2001 Co-author of book chapter in ‘Best Practice Procurement, public and private sector perspectives’ edited by Erridge, Fee and McIlroy published by Gower

Papers & presentations

2006 Paper ‘Challenges of Collaborative Procurement’ and workshops, Annual conference of the London Boroughs Contracts and Supplies Group.

2003 Various presentations and workshops including ‘Selling to Higher Education’ and ‘Understanding the Higher Education Market’ for BIP Solutions.com

2000 Various presentations and workshops including United Kingdom Serials Group on performance measurement in the international journals market.

1999 Various presentations including Public Sector Expo ’99, COUP99 Plenary session, Fisher Science World, CIPS East of Scotland Branch.

1999 Paper ‘A quart from a pint pot - Developing the effective use of consortia’ Ritchie, J and Chadwick, T presented at IPSERA 99, Belfast/Dublin March 1999

1998 Paperback edition of book ‘Strategic Supply Management’ published by Butterworth Heinemann

1998 Paper ‘Whole Life Costing - Helping buyers to break the confines of the purchasing office’ Chadwick, T and Mee, M presented at IPSERA 98, London

1998 Paper ‘Breakthrough Purchasing - Measuring and Managing in the Purchasing Organisation of the Future’ Stannack, P and Chadwick, T presented at IPSERA 98

1997 Paper ‘Benchmarking in Purchasing’ presented (with P Stannack) at the Conference on University Purchasing (COUP 97) Chelmsford

1994 ‘Revolution in Purchasing - from spending to strategy’ IPSERA 94

1994 ‘Partnerships and preferred supplier arrangements - do they just happen or are they created to order?’ IPSERA 94, University of Cardiff

1993 ‘Bidders’ conferences - bringing suppliers into the fold to reduce costs and win new business’ IPSERA 93, University of Bath, also published in Purchasing and Supply Management, November 1993

1992 ‘Quality begins at home’ 8th Supply Forum, University of San Diego, California

1992 ‘Quality begins at home’ 1st IPSERA (PSERG) conference, 1992,University of Strathclyde, also published in Purchasing and Supply Management, September 1992

Twenty years of part-time teaching Purchasing and Supply in parallel with a career in Materials Management and Procurement Development spanning both the commercial world of Manufacturing and Defence and in the public sector for Edinburgh University and the Joint Procurement Policy and Strategy Group for UK Higher Education.

First degree in Electrical Engineering, publications include a textbook Strategic Supply Management, an Implementation Toolkit (1995, and 1998), chapters in Gower Handbooks Best Practice Procurement (2001), and Purchasing Management (2002). Various papers for IPSERA conferences. Workshops on Selling to the Public Sector for BIP Solutions, and Collaborative Procurement for London Boroughs Supply Group.

Other interests include being a member of the Church of Scotland Social Care Council, Vice Chairman of Enterprise Music Scotland, Trustee and Awards Administrator for the John Tunnell Trust for Young Musicians