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Dr Ian Stewart

Reader in Project Management Education Organisation - University of ManchesterDr Ian Stewart

Dr Ian Stewart is a Reader in Project Management Education at the Department of Engineering Management, University of Manchester. Currently, he is taking a sabbatical. Previous to this, he was Academic Lead of the Management of Projects Research Group and the Programme Director of the MSc Management of Projects.

In teaching, he contextualises business and management Higher Education for projectised contexts, particularly construction and engineering. His research interests are around experiential learning in Engineering Management education, the History of Management and more recently, the impact of AI on Professions and Expert Labour.

He also teaches at the University of Warwick, L'Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Systémes Industriels, and Dauphine Paris Sciences et Lettres.

Session: Can AI Learn to be a Project Professional? - An Exploration Based on our Conception of 'Profession'

The highly ‘situated’ nature of project management, the history of ‘solo-practice’ in UK management practice and the dominance of concepts constructed by ‘folk concepts’ around what profession actually means, creates distinctive threats and opportunities when it comes to considering the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the professional status of project management.

AI is intelligence demonstrated by machines. There are folk concepts around this too. AI in its various forms is bringing change to every kind of work. This research considers the implications of folk concepts of AI in the project management profession from the perspective of the sociology of professions, which creates both a critical evaluation of the interaction of AI with the professionalisation of project management and a novel perspective for developing AI applications.