Dr Rebecca Vine

Post:	Associate Research Fellow (SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit)
Location:	JUBILEE BUILDING
Email:	R.Vine@sussex.ac.uk

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Role

Rebecca Vine is associate faculty at SPRU and collaborates with others on several research projects. She worked as a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Business School between 2011 and 2022. As a Lecturer she played a major role in gaining professional accreditation for Accounting and Finance from the main chartered accountancy bodies. At SPRU she was on secondment as an ESRC Innovation Fellow funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to examine Intelligent Client capabilities and governance reform within major infrastructure projects.

Her research explores management control, innovation and policy issues associated with accountability and the governance of risk within large-scale infrastructure projects. 

In 2019 she became a Co-Investigator on a large three year programme of research: Better Government Projects - Project X. Project X was a multi-institutional collaboration between the Cabinet Office (IPA), government departments, industry partners, the project delivery profession and a large number of prestigious universities. In this role she examined performance management and control as part of a broader research theme group focused on capability and knowledge management within government projects. Rebecca was a member of the Steering Group overseeing Project X.

Responsibilities:  

• Co-Investigator (2019-2021) ESRC funded Better Government Projects (Project X) 
• Doctoral Supervisor (1) Phillippa Groome (SPRU) (2) Dr Sara Almaged (Accounting and Finance - awarded in 2024)
• Convenor and Lecturer 

Biography:

Rebecca has a PhD from SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit), an MBA (with distinction) and a BA in Economics and Accounting from the University of Leeds. After graduating she worked in the Energy Sector as an earnings analyst and planner on turnaround projects and channel expansion programmes in Europe and Africa. She qualified as a chartered management accountant in the early 90s and spent many happy years at Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) working within and across large scale consultancy projects. At Accenture she became a senior controller and commercial lead focused on outsourcing, IT transformations and performance management with project teams based in the US, Europe and South Africa. In 2001 she became an Associate Director of a large financial training house and was responsible for executive training for senior civil servants across several UK government departments. Her career in education continued from there.  

Engagement: Community, Policy and Business impact

She is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants global community. Recently she has taken up a role as a Director of the Cuckmere Community Solar Company in Sussex. In the past, she has held board positions for Young Enterprise and several Women in Leadership in professional practice and industry initiatives. In 2017-18 she was part of Project 13, in a cross-industry and university working group that developed the principles underpinning business model and governance reform. In 2022 she was awarded a university-level prize in recognition of the impact of her research with the UK Government. 

Latest Publication

Vine, R., Kortantamer, D., Davies, A. (2024) 'Voyages of Discovery: balancing leadership, control and capabilities in megaproject delivery', in Ika, L.A., & Pinto, J.K. (eds) The Cambridge handbook of project behavior. Cambridge University Press