Stimulating PhD Entrepreneurs: Discover innovative engagement approaches to encouraging PhD students to develop entrepreneurial mind-sets – an interactive workshop for educators and practitioners

10:00 am - 4:00 pm 06/03/2019

103c Camley Street, London


   

Stimulating PhD Entrepreneurs:

Discover innovative engagement approaches to encouraging PhD students to develop entrepreneurial mind-sets – an interactive workshop
for educators and practitioners

Wednesday March 6th2019 10am – 4pm

UCL BaseKX, 103c Camley Street, London, N1C 4PF

**Slides available at the bottom of this page** 

Delegates had the opportunity to:

  • Understand the imperatives behind driving PhD entrepreneurs
  • Hear from entrepreneurship educators and practitioners who will share innovative tools and techniques for identifying, recruiting and nurturing PhD entrepreneurs
  • Build new networks with like-minded educators and entrepreneurs
  • Meet PhD founders and learn about the opportunities and challenges to work with this community
  • Visit the new UCL BaseKX start up space

Background

Ninety five per cent of the 25,000 UK PhD graduates will fail to progress into jobs in Higher Education (according to UKRI). The number of PhD research students is increasing and only one third have a firm idea about their future career.  Few PhD researchers consider self- employment (Doctoral Destinations, UCL Careers 2017), yet early signs show the potential for PhDs to create new enterprises. UK HEIs have much to gain by exploiting this PhD career pathway.

This Enterprise Exchange event was designed to raise awareness of the opportunities for PhD entrepreneurship across the UK HEI landscape, share innovative entrepreneurship practices to stimulate new thinking and provide a showcase for successful PhD entrepreneurs.

Speakers and facilitators

  • Dr Debbie Buckley-Golder, Head ofInnovation Talent and Skills, UKRI
  • Alan Scrase, Freelance Higher Education Programmes Manager
  • UCL representatives
  • Warrick Harniess, Scandanavia Stories
  • Dr Mario Moustras, Mazamo
  • PhD Entrepreneurs – Rebecca McKelvey and Matthew Higgins
  • Jerry Allen, Director of Entrepreneurship, UCL

Slides available for download:

Debbie Buckley-Golder UKRI

Alan Scrase Simon Brown P2T

Nadia Forde Warrick Harniess Mario Moustras UCL-converted

Rebecca McKelvey In2ScienceUK

Attendee details

Bookings are closed for this event.