Southampton Management School

Honora Smith

Primary position:
Lecturer in Operational Research / Management Science

Background

Honora Smith is a lecturer jointly in Management Science in the Southampton Management School and in Operational Research in the School of Mathematics. After a first degree combining mathematics and OR/MS, she took up employment in the fields of OR and IT, with periods in manufacturing industry, transportation planning, the National Health Service and pharmaceutical industry. A career break then enabled her to bring up a family, while teaching mathematics and IT part-time in a local school. She also gained a qualification in teaching English to speakers of other languages and studied the saxophone too. More recently, Honora renewed her interest in OR with an MSc in OR from the University of Southampton, followed up by a PhD in OR entitled 'Locating sustainable community health facilities', which involved several visits to rural India.

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Publications

The University of Southampton's electronic library (e-prints)

Article

Smith, Honora, Harper, Paul and Potts, Chris N. (2012) Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for public service application. Journal of the Operational Research Society (doi:10.1057/jors.2012.68). (In Press).
White, Leroy, Smith, Honora K. and Currie, Christine S.M. (2011) OR in developing countries: A review. European Journal of Operational Research, 208, 1-11. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.02.015).
Smith, Honora K., Harper, Paul R., Potts, Chris N. and Thyle, Ann (2009) Planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries. European Journal of Operational Research, 193, (3), 768-777. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2007.07.031).
Smith, H.K., Laporte, G. and Harper, P.R. (2009) Locational analysis: highlights of growth to maturity. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60, S140-S148. (doi:10.1057/jors.2008.172).
Currie, C.S.M., Cheng, R.C.H. and Smith, H.K. (2008) Dynamic pricing of airline tickets with competition. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59, (8), 1026-1037. (doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602425).

Book Section

Smith, Honora K., Harper, Paul R. and Potts, Chris N. (2008) Location modelling for community healthcare facilities. In, Operations Research for Health Care Delivery Engineering. The 33rd International Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS2007) Saint-Etienne, France, Publications de L'Universite de Saint-Etienne, 101-112.

Conference or Workshop Item

Smith, H. K. (2010) Estimation of capacity needed for new healthcare facilities. In, LANCS S&I Healthcare one-day meeting, University of Nottingham, UK,
Smith, H. K. (2009) Location of community health facilities. In, LANCS S&I Healthcare one-day meeting, Cardiff, UK, Mathematics Institute, Cardiff.
Smith, H. K. and Harper, P. R. (2009) Relocation of health facilities: modelling the implications. In, 35th International Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS), Leuven, Belgium, 12 - 17 Jul 2009.
Smith, H. K. (2009) OR for self-sustainable community health programs in rural areas of developing countries. In, 23rd European Conference on Operational Research, Bonn, Germany, 05 - 08 Jul 2009.
Smith, H. K. (2008) 'Locational analysis: highlights of growth to maturity' and 'modelling demand for a community health facility in rural India'. In, OR50 Annual Conference , York, UK, 09 - 11 Sep 2008.
Smith, H. K., Harper, P. R. and Potts, C. N. (2008) Community healthcare facilities:location and demand modelling. In, Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference (HSCM)2008, Portrush, N. Ireland, 18 - 20 Mar 2008.
Smith, H. K., Harper, P. R. and Potts, C. N. (2007) Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for application in healthcare and other sectors. In, EWGLA XVI, Meeting of the European Working Group on Locational Analysis, Estoril, Portugal, 09 - 11 Feb 2007.
Smith, Honora, Harper, Paul and Potts, Chris (2006) An OR approach to planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries. poster discussion presentations: planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries using hierarchical location modelling. At EURO XXI, European Conference on Operational Research, 02 - 05 Jul 2006. Reykjavík, IS,
Smith, H and Harper, Paul (2005) Location-allocation modelling for the geographical distribution and organisation of health services. In, Operational Research and Applied Statistics, London, GB,

Monograph

Smith, Honora and Harper, Paul (2010) Dynamic modelling of the spatio-temporal growth of trust: usage of a rural community health centre. (Submitted)
 

Research

Research Interests

The lectureship is funded by the LANCS initiative, www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk/, which is built upon collaboration between four UK Universities: Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton. Honora is a part of the healthcare research cluster within LANCS.

Primary research group:  CORMSIS: Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems

Research project

The LANCS Initiative in Foundational Operational Research (S&I bid) - Management

Developing world-leading work in the field of Operational Research (OR).

Contact

Dr Honora Smith
Southampton Management School
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ, UK

Room Number: 54/10017

Telephone: (023) 8059 3700
Email: Honora.Smith@soton.ac.uk