Kamila Walters

Dr Kamila Walters is Associate Dean (Academic Operations) and Principal Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at the University of Brighton’s School of Business and Law. She combines a strong academic background in physics and materials science with over a decade of industry experience in operations, planning, supply chain and business intelligence in the FMCG sector. Her work now focuses on data-driven, sustainable supply chain management and the application of business analytics and business intelligence to improve decision-making across organisations.

Dr Walters research interests centre on modern local and global integrated supply chains, with particular emphasis on sustainability, ethical business practices and supply chain analytics. She is interested in how IT tools, Big Data analytics and AI can support more resilient, low‑carbon and socially responsible supply chains, from procurement and inventory management to logistics, quality and operations. 

Dr Kamila Walters welcomes supervision and collaboration in projects on:

• Sustainable and circular supply chain management, including low‑carbon logistics and responsible sourcing.
• Supply chain analytics, business analytics and business intelligence applications for performance improvement and risk management.
• The use of quantitative methods and decision-support systems to enhance visibility, forecasting and planning across the supply chain.

After A-levels at Technology College, Dr Kamila Walters pursued STEM education with teacher training at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland, earning BSc and MSc degrees in Physics.

She advanced her research career at Czestochowa University of Technology, completing a PhD in Physics in 2005 at the University of Lodz, focused on the nanocrystallisation and magnetic properties of Fe- and Co-based alloys.

​In 2007, she relocated to the UK and joined the University of Brighton as a Research Officer, developing production processes for highly magnetostrictive composite materials as part of an Anglo-French collaboration.

​Subsequently, she spent a decade in industry at Higgidy, an FMCG SME, holding roles from Production Planner to Supply Chain Manager and Finance Business Partner, gaining deep expertise in operations, planning, supply chain management, and business intelligence.

​In June 2019, she returned to higher education as Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at the University of Brighton’s School of Business and Law, now serving as Associate Dean (Academic Operations) and Principal Lecturer, where she channels her industry experience into teaching data-driven supply chains, business analytics, sustainability, and business intelligence.

Dr Kamila Walters is a Principal Lecturer in supply chain management and plays a leading role in curriculum design for analytics-focused programmes, including the Business Analytics BSc. She has designed and teaches analytics modules such as Applied Business Analytics and Supply Chain Analytics, helping students use tools like Power BI to turn data into actionable insights for marketing, operations, finance and strategy. Her teaching emphasises real-world datasets, sustainability-focused case studies and close alignment with industry practice in digital transformation and data-driven decision-making.

​She also contributes to modules in procurement and supply chain management, logistics and supply chain management, enterprise systems and e‑procurement, and managing systems and operations. Across these modules she seeks to integrate her research and industry experience, and to build students’ confidence in applying analytics and business intelligence tools in professional contexts.

Before returning to academia, Dr Kamila Walters spent around ten years in industry at Higgidy, an SME within the fast-moving consumer goods sector, gaining extensive experience in operations, planning, supply chain management, and finance (business intelligence). This foundation drives her passion for practical, data-led performance improvement and informs her current role as an academic supervisor on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) focused on digital business transformation and operational efficiencies, alongside collaborations with local companies on digital transformation and business analytics projects.

​Kamila regularly engages with professional audiences on topics such as digital transformation, sustainable supply chains, and the role of AI and analytics in supply chain management. She has delivered talks on balancing technology, people, and processes in the new supply chain landscape and contributed to panels on how AI can enhance supply chain performance and sustainability.