Academic Subject Lead for Strategy, Enterprise, Leadership and Management at the University of Gloucestershire

Emily is Academic Subject Lead for Strategy, Enterprise, Leadership and Management at the University of Gloucestershire. Emily has a passion for enterprise and entrepreneurship education and has devoted her time in Higher Education to developing teaching and research in this discipline.  This has led to her being awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.  She also recently established and co-chairs the Research in Enterprise Education Special Interest Group, the first official partnership between the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and EEUK.

Emily’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Catherine is a Senior Lecturer with the Enterprise division at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability. Catherine is a passionate and experienced enterprise educator with an exceptional track record of developing award winning programmes and ventures. Catherine has worked in enterprise education since 2006 and her specialities are focused on social enterprise and alternative entrepreneurial education through the curriculum, teacher development and curriculum innovation, programme design and evaluation, coaching and facilitation, alternative enterprise pedagogies, research scholar exploring Competitive Enterprise Education.

Catherine’s LinkedIn Profile can be found here.

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Enterprise Educator, University of Birmingham

Helen has over 24 years of experience in Higher Education, including 15 years in various Careers Professional roles and 9 years as an Enterprise Educator at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in embedding creative, contextualised approaches to Enterprise Education into the curriculum through cocreation techniques with academics, careers professionals, and industry partners. Helen holds a degree in Business Enterprise, a PGCHE in Higher Education, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and currently chairs the AGCAS Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Task Group.

Helen’s expertise extends to working with international partners on collaborative projects such as International Service-Learning, idea mining workshops with NGOs like Amnesty International and Enactus, and research on agile approaches to collaborative online international learning. As an Early Career Researcher, she has also led collaborative research focused on Supporting Student Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, underscoring the importance of enterprise and entrepreneurship training for university careers teams. Helen’s dedication to collaborative training opportunities between AGCAS and EEUK has resulted in her taking a lead role as Director, to support the new partnership agreement between both membership organisations.

Helen’s LinkedIn profile can be found here

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Curriculum Lead (Associate Professor) Entrepreneurship, Coventry University

Cherisse oversees the operational development of enterprise skills and entrepreneurship education for the Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University. Cherisse is passionate about giving a voice to those in marginalised communities who still do not have access to enterprise and entrepreneurship education. She works on international projects supporting enterprise and entrepreneurship education across Europe, East Africa and South-East Asia. Her expertise is in curriculum transformation, online course development and innovative pedagogic approaches to embedding entrepreneurialism in the curriculum. Her own entrepreneurship research is on new venture creation and the cognitive and socio-material processes aspiring entrepreneurs experience as they navigate the boundaries between venture ideas and venture formation. She enjoys travelling to Thailand to support enterprise and entrepreneurship education as a start-up coach/mentor for the Global Entrepreneurship Camp run by Suranaree University of Technology.

Cherisse’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Employer & Engagement Officer, University of Westminster

Jennie has worked within WeNetwork at the University of Westminster leading on Employer Engagement for the last couple of years within the University’s Business Engagement Directorate integrating business practices within enterprise education. Jennie leads on prospecting businesses within the Enterprise landscape and developing collaborations that will enhance the learning experience and employability of Westminster students. Jennie has championed diversity and inclusion in her employer engagement strategies developing partnerships with diverse employers and founders to facilitate experiential learning activities and ddressing the barriers to employment and enterprise faced by Westminster’s diverse community of students and graduates. With a background in the creative/media sector and business development her work is in collections at the V&A Museum, The National Portrait Gallery & The Black Cultural Archives. Jennie has also been a guest speaker on creative industries issues at a range of events including City Hall, the Home Office, The V&A, Tate Britain, The Institute of Jamaica and Kingston University.<

Jennie's LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Head of Communications & Engagement at the Entrepreneurship Institute, King’s College London

Nina is an experienced communicator, with ten+ years in marketing and communication roles in both the charity sector and higher education. Through targeted storytelling, Nina has engaged large national and international audiences in campaigns covering consumer rights, climate change and international development.

Nina has worked in enterprise education for 6+ years, supporting students, staff and alumni to develop their entrepreneurial skills and ideas. She is currently responsible for growing and deepening engagement in entrepreneurship at King’s and uses her expertise in stakeholder management, content creation, activity design and strategy to do so. She started her own business whilst studying at university, going on to support young people in her local borough for over 10 years. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and passionate about creating opportunities for others to develop skills, knowledge and experience for future success.

Nina’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Enterprise Adviser Manager, NTU Enterprise, Nottingham Trent University

Diana’s professional background combines business, creativity, and education, with over 30 years of experience in these fields. She joined the NTU Enterprise Team as an Enterprise Adviser in 2016, supporting students, graduates, and SMEs in starting up, growing, and innovating in business. Diana is an accomplished presenter, facilitator, and mentor and is particularly passionate about supporting female founders and creative individuals. Diana served as a director and trustee of Arts Development UK and is a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). In 2019, she was awarded a fellowship of EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK). Diana achieved an MBA from Nottingham University Business School and has completed an Advance HE Aurora Leadership programme.

Diana’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Associate Professor in Innovation Management, Brimingham City University

Matt is a Lego-obsessed educator with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in academia. Internationally-recognised for his expertise, Matt has a rich background in course design, development, and evaluation, spanning apps, websites, virtual worlds, and physical spaces. Currently an Associate Professor at Birmingham City University, he leads the BSc Digital Business Degree, and engages in research and industry collaborations. Matt’s career spans a range of roles including Associate Dean at The Global Banking School and Innovation Curriculum Developer at the University of Warwick, where he pioneered innovative educational strategies and led several impactful projects. His extensive experience also includes senior positions at several other universities, and spells in the private sector running companies and charities. Matt thrives on exploring learning models and educational trends, always seeking to understand their future implications. As a freelance business expert, he coaches startups and growth businesses worldwide, helping them navigate new markets and secure investments. Matt’s commitment to education and entrepreneurship is also reflected in his numerous publications and presentations on these subjects.

Matt’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise at University of the Arts London

Marcus O’Dair is a writer, consultant and academic with an interest in enterprise education and innovation management. During a decade in the music and media industries, he released four acclaimed albums as one half of Grasscut and performed across Europe at venues including the Pompidou Centre and the Royal Albert Hall. He also contributed to various broadsheet newspapers and wrote a biography that was a book of the week on BBC Radio 4. He then moved into academia and is currently Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise at University of the Arts London. He has run creative entrepreneurship programmes around the world for organisations including the British Council and is currently UAL lead on a £900,000 project supporting entrepreneurship among student studying creative subjects.

Marcus’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Senior Enterprise Consultant at UWE Bristol

Mhairi is the Senior Enterprise Consultant at UWE Bristol. She was the entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Bristol before joining UWE Bristol in 2011 to establish and build their extracurricular entrepreneurship activity. Over the past ten years, she has worked to grow the team and now leads on the development of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Throughout her time at UWE, Mhairi has worked with a range of institutions to share best practice on enterprise, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in countries including Morocco, South Korea, Iceland, Kenya, Ukraine and Georgia. In the UK, she has worked on a range of projects including Goodlab (a project to connect social entrepreneurs and academics), feeding into the development of enterprise and entrepreneurship policies and sharing her work on applying the EntreComp Framework at UWE Bristol. She has also held various positions as a Bristol city councillor, trustee and school governor and sat as a director of Bristol is Open, a joint venture between Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol to develop a ‘test-bed’ programmable, digital infrastructure. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and currently sits on the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) task group for enterprise and entrepreneurship. Her research interests include neurodiversity and entrepreneurship, social enterprise and impact, policy ontology and person-centred teaching.

Mhairi’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Entrepreneurship Officer, Bridgend College

Ruth is a multi-award-winning enterprise educator and EEUK Fellow who has been championing Entrepreneurship at Bridgend College since 2010. As a business adviser before taking up her current post, she specialized in supporting start–ups and managed the acclaimed Women into Business programme. Her wide-ranging qualifications include an IEEP Fellowship and an MA in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education.

Alongside her role, Ruth was a trustee of the Fairwood Trust, a charity supporting disadvantaged young people to fulfil their potential through education and enterprise, for ten years a Bridgend College governor for four years and a member of the EWC’s Fitness to Practice team. In her spare time, Ruth enjoys reading, cooking and going to the theatre. She also plays tennis every week and hopes her enthusiasm makes up for her lack of talent.

Ruth’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Head of Policy and Professional Development

Alison has worked to develop entrepreneurial capacity across the FE and HE sector for over 20 years.  By supporting curriculum change, staff development and the role of the educator as a catalyst within the development of entrepreneurial university, Alison is one of the most experienced staff developers working on enterprise and entrepreneurship in the UK having taught staff across UK, Europe and China.  Alison represents EEUK to explore European and UK policy with particular focus on what policy changes means to those working to create entrepreneurial outcomes in others and how it affects the practice and impact of UK enterprise educators.

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Project Manager for Richard Beresford Bursary, National Enterprise Educator Awards and the EEUK Impact Fund

Sal has many years’ experience in project management, financial administration, and educational and creative workshop facilitation. She has been a freelance entrepreneur for over 15 years and is a published playwright and experienced trainer.

Since 2018, Sal has provided author management services to ISBE, the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, in preparation for their annual conference. She is also responsible for managing the programme of parallel sessions for the event.

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Head of Administration

Lynn is a freelance worker specialising in administration, communications and event and Conference organisation, who started working with the Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) in 2007. Lynn has over 25 years’ experience working within the Higher Education sector, as well as with a wide selection of private sector clients and associations such as the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).