Sharon Cullinane
PROFESSOR
Department of BusinessAbout Sharon Cullinane
Sharon gained her Ph.D. in logistics from Plymouth University in 1987. Since then she has lectured, researched and published in the field of transport policy and the environment around the world. Her most recent post was as Senior Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Prior to that she was employed at the University of Hong Kong, Oxford University, Sunderland University, the Egyptian National Institute of Transport, the Ecole Supérieur de Rennes in France and Plymouth University. Following some time out of mainstream academia, she took up her post in the University of Gothenburg in summer 2015.
Research
Sharon’s main research interest is sustainable transport. She is interested in both freight and passenger transport and has carried out research and has many publications in both. She is particularly interested in the cross-over between passenger and freight transport which underpins some of her work in the sustainability of e-commerce. She played a key role in the Green Logistics project at Heriot-Watt University. She is currently working on reverse logistics associated with online shopping.
Teaching
Sharon has taught on and developed many academic courses, primarily at the Masters level, including Green Logistics, transport policy, transport economics, logistics planning, transport planning, rural development, public transport systems, research methods. At Sunderland University, she developed the Professional Doctorate programme.
She is currently Programme Leader of the MSc in Logistics and Transport Management and is Course Leader of Integrated Logistics for the same Masters programme.
She has successfully supervised 10 PhDs candidates and over 150 MSc theses. She has also reviewed for many international academic journals.
On other web sites
Research areas
- Sustainable logistics, e-commerce logistics, car ownership and usage, reverse logistics
Teaching areas
- Logistics
Selected publications
Comparative analysis of the carbon footprints of conventional and online retailing: A “last mile” perspective
Cullinane, Sharon, McKinnon, Alan, Edwards, Julia
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management,, 2010
From Bricks to Clicks: The impact of online retailing on transport and the environment.
Cullinane, Sharon
Transport Reviews, 2009
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Retail clothing returns: A Review of Key
Issues
Sharon Cullinane, Michael Browne, Elisabeth Karlsson, Yingli Wang
Contemporary Operations and Logistics. Wells, P. (red.) - 2019-01-01 -
The reverse logistics of cross-border e-tailing in Europe: Developing a research agenda to assess the environmental
impacts
Sharon Cullinane, Kevin Cullinane
International Journal of Applied Logistics - 2018-01-01 -
Policy on Reducing Shipping Emissions: Implications for ‘Green
Ports’
Kevin Cullinane, Sharon Cullinane
Green ports : inland and seaside sustainable transportation strategies / edited by Rickard Bergqvist and Jason Monios - 2018-01-01 -
An examination of the reverse logistics of clothing (r)e-tailers in
Sweden
Sharon Cullinane, Michael Browne, Elisabeth Karlsson
Proceedings of EUROMA conference, 41998, Edinburgh, 1-5 July. - 2017-01-01 -
Improving sustainability through digitalisation in reverse
logistics
Sharon Cullinane, Michael Browne, Elisabeth Karlsson, Yingli Wang
Proceedings of Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 12-13 oktober 2017. - 2017-01-01 -
Retail clothing Returns: A review of key
issues
Sharon Cullinane, Michael Browne, Elisabeth Karlsson, Y Wang
- 2017-01-01 -
Improving the Quality of Sweden’s Rail Freight Rolling Stock: The use of DEA in Benchmarking and
Pricing
Kevin Cullinane, Rickard Bergqvist, Sharon Cullinane, Shengda Zhu, Linkai Wang
Benchmarking : An International Journal - 2017-01-01 -
A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for their
Development
Kevin Cullinane, Sharon Cullinane, Tengfei Wang
Reprinted In P.T.W. Lee and K.P.B. Cullinane [Eds] Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy – Vol. 2: Emerging Trends in Ports - 2016-01-01 -
B2C e-commerce and
fulfilment
Sharon Cullinane
E-logistics - 2016-01-01 -
A financial evaluation of the design concept for a 'clean energy producing
vessel'
Kevin Cullinane, Sharon Cullinane
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M-Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment - 2015-01-01 -
A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for their
Development
Kevin Cullinane, Sharon Cullinane, Tengfei Wang
Dynamic shipping and port development in the globalized economy : Volume 2: emerging trends in ports edited by Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Kevin Cullinane - 2015-01-01 -
Benchmarking the performance of Swedish Rail Freight Rolling Stock: A Conceptual Approach to Setting Tariffs using Data Envelopment
Analysis
Kevin Cullinane, Rickard Bergqvist, Sharon Cullinane, Shengda Zhu, Linkai Wang
- 2015-01-01 -
RAIL FREIGHT QUALITY -THE CONTEXT OF SWEDISH RAIL FREIGHT AND A ROLLING STOCK
INDEX
Kevin Cullinane, Rickard Bergqvist, Sharon Cullinane, Shengda Zhu, Linkai Wang
Nationell konferens i transportforskning 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
Mitigating the negative environmental impacts of long haul freight
transport
Sharon Cullinane
Transport and sustainability - 2014-01-01 -
Atmospheric Emissions from Shipping: The Need for Regulation and Approaches to
Compliance
Kevin Cullinane, Sharon Cullinane
Transport reviews - 2013-01-01 -
Lifting the Spirit – Sustainable Whisky
Distribution
Sharon Cullinane
- 2013-01-01 -
Greening Logistics – Sustainable Best
Practices
Sharon Cullinane
- 2013-01-01 -
S E-business, e-logistics e
ambiente
J Edwards, Y Wang, A Potter, Sharon Cullinane
Logistica Verde. Tecniche nuove - 2012-01-01 -
Benefici e costi del passaggio a carburanti
alternativi
Sharon Cullinane, J Edwards
Logistica Verde. Tecniche nuove - 2012-01-01 -
Valutazione dell'impatto ambientale del trasporto
merci
Sharon Cullinane, J Edwards
Logistica Verde. Tecniche nuove - 2012-01-01 -
Logistica Verde. Tecniche
nuove
Sharon Cullinane, A.C McKinnon, Michael Browne, A.E Whiteing
- 2012-01-01 -
Comparative carbon auditing of conventional and online retail supply chains: a review of methodological
issues
J.B. Edwards, McKinnon, A.C., Sharon Cullinane
Supply Chain Management: an International Journal - 2011-01-01