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Qualifications

MA Human Resource Management, University of the West of England, Bristol
MSc Occupational Psychology, University of Cardiff
BSc (Joint Honours) Mathematics and Psychology, University of Birmingham
Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing (Level A)
Certificate of Competence in Personality Assessment (Level B Intermediate, 16PF5 & OPQ)

Professional Affiliations
Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Affiliate of Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP)
Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)

Experience

2006 Research Associate, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield
2003-2006 Human Resources Advisor, Computershare Investor Services

Research

My current research concerns management practices and productivity in the retail sector, working with Professor Chris Clegg. At this stage in the project I am focusing on working closely with our case study organisation, a nationwide department store chain, to derive insights from interviews, observations, and company performance data.

This project is a collaboration between four Universities: Leeds, Nottingham, Oxford, and Aston; and is jointly funded by the EPSRC and the ERSC. This project has four main objectives, to:

assess the role of management practices in the productivity gap in the UK retail sector;
identify key aspects of management activity for productivity;
develop multi-level models of relevant variables, and use them to understand and predict practice;
generate ideas on good practice for productivity improvements.

Publications

Journal papers

Siebers P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (in press). Modelling and Simulating Retail Management Practices: A First Approach. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling.

Siebers P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (in press). Simulating Customer Experience and Word-Of-Mouth in Retail - A Case Study. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Conference Presentations

Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. (2008) Agent-based Simulation as a Novel decision support tool for retail managers. The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry - London (EMCI2008) Mini Symposium Novel Simulations: Mathematical Modelling from a Different Perspective: 30 June - 4 July 2008; UCL, UK

Celia, H., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., Clegg, C., Battisti, G., & Fu, X. (2008). Understanding Retail Capabilities. Retailing in the 21st Century, Manchester, 30 September.

Celia, H., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., Clegg, C., Battisti, G., & Fu, X. (2008). Findings from our Survey of 1,000 Retail Capabilities. Understanding Retail Capabilities, London, 4 June.

Siebers, P.O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H. and Clegg, C. (2008). An Agent-Based Simulation of In-Store Customer Experiences. Proceedings of the 2008 Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop (SW08), Worcestershire, UK.

Siebers, P.O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H. & Clegg, C. (2007). 'Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity', Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp 2212-2220, 9-12 December 2007, Washington, DC.

Siebers, P.O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H. & Clegg, C. (2007). 'Understanding Retail Productivity by Simulating Management Practices', Proceedings of the EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 9-13 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H. and Clegg, C. (2007). 'A Multi-Agent Simulation of Retail Management Practices', Proceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, pp 959-966, July 2007, San Diego, CA.

Celia, H., Robinson, M.A., Clegg, C., Siebers, P.O., Aickelin, U., Jackson, H., & Sprigg, C. (2007). Using Intelligent Agents to understand Organisational Behaviour. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology Conference, Bristol, 10-12 January.

Celia, H., Clegg, C., Siebers, P.O., & Aickelin, U. (2007). Understanding the Impact of Management Practices & other Factors on Productivity in the UK Retail Sector. The XIIIth European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Stockholm, 9-12 May (Presenter and Productivity Session Chair).

Other Publications

Battisti, G., Celia, H., Clegg, C., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., & Fu, X. (2009) How capable is the UK retail industry? AIM Executive Briefing Series. (ISBN TBC).

Celia, H., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., Clegg, C., Battisti, G., & Fu, X. (2008). Understanding Retail Capabilities. 17th June.

Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Battisti, G., Celia, H., Clegg, C., Fu, X., De Hoyos, R., Iona, A., Petrescu, A., & Peixoto, A. (2008). Enhancing Productivity: The Role of Management Practices. Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) Working Paper No. 065-February-2008 (ISSN: 1744-0009).

Book Chapters

Siebers, P.O., Aickelin U., Celia H. and Clegg C. (2008). 'Multi-Agent Simulation and Management Practices'. In Adam, F. and Humphreys, P., (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies, Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, pp 645-652.