{"id":15252,"date":"2022-04-21T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:10:39","slug":"kbs-professor-maria-paola-scaparra-to-present-at-woran-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/04\/kbs-professor-maria-paola-scaparra-to-present-at-woran-event\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS&#8217; Professor Maria Paola Scaparra to Present at WORAN event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/senior-leadership-team\/895\/scaparra-maria-paola\">Professor Maria Paola Scaparra,<\/a> Professor of Management Science at Kent Business School is appearing at the <i>Lightening Talk <\/i>Event by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorsociety.com\/get-involved\/society-groups\/special-interest-groups-and-networks\/women-in-or-analytics-network\/\">Women Making Difference in OR and Analytics (WORAN)<\/a> on 28 April 2022.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paola specialises in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">development of analytics tools and optimisation models for disaster management, humanitarian logistics, healthcare service planning, transportation planning and sustainable development. Her speech at the event is entitled: Empowering Southeast Asian Communities with Operational Research.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr Scaparra says: <\/span><em>\u201cI am thrilled to be one of the featured female speakers in this event. I hope my lightning talk will inspire future generations of OR researchers to develop new OR tools which can be used to address global development challenges, create more equitable and inclusive societies, and support the most vulnerable communities in the developing world\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The virtual event begins at 1.30pm via Zoom. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Other speakers include:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Seda Sucu (University of Portsmouth):The Power of OR: using different tools to make a difference\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cicely Striolo (Copperleaf):\u202fUsing the 6 Capital Value Framework to incorporate environmental, customer and performance goals: business planning in the water industry<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ine\u202f Steenmans (University College London): \u202fUsing OR skills for public policy: 3 suggestions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Olga Tolmachova (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority):\u202fTackling Europe\u2019s most important environmental restoration project<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Katherine Kent (ONS):\u202fAnalysis with impact: Reflections from the COVID Infection Survey<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZUlc-qvpjMsE9TGDwDwKeJCxvWUC6lpsg7A\">Register for the event here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/senior-leadership-team\/895\/scaparra-maria-paola\"><b>Professor Maria Paola Scaparra is Professor of Management Science<\/b><strong>\u00a0at Kent Business School.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:300,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Maria Paola Scaparra, Professor of Management Science at Kent Business School is appearing at the Lightening Talk Event by Women Making Difference in OR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/04\/kbs-professor-maria-paola-scaparra-to-present-at-woran-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":15258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions\/15275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}