Dr Beryl Archer is the Managing Director of a science-based research organisation which she set up in 2016 with £100. SCI Green Innovations Ltd is now working with international clients one of whom is the fifth largest company in the world. Beryl enjoys telling people what to do and sometimes where to go, paddling her own canoe, not fetching tea when she is running the meeting and laughing in the face of adversity. Her special interests outside of science are challenging concepts around diversity and leadership. Beryl is learning how to step back from situations that do nurture her authenticity, how to say no and how to talk so everyone can hear what is being said. Beryl has had leadership roles in Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Hospira Pfizer and Bayer and has been managing teams for over twenty five years. Beryl’s motto in life is “Love your neighbour as yourself!” Unfortunately, being human she gets that wrong from time to time not always unintentionally.”
The title of her presentation will be: Science, Intersectionality and Diversity -How to stay sane in a world full of assumptions.
Dr Hannah Dean is lecturer of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity at the University of St Andrews. Hannah’s research focuses on gender and entrepreneurship. Most recently, Hannah started to explore experiences of social entrepreneurs in the light of the current UK economic and political climate. Hannah is interested in applying innovative qualitative research methods including historical approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. Hannah has successfully secured a number of research grants. She presents regularly at international conferences and her paper on the discourses of entrepreneurial leadership was awarded the best paper for the International Small Business Journal for 2017.
The title of her presentation will be: A case study of Engagement with non-academic audiences to promote the diversity of female entrepreneurs
Dr Sally Jones is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Gender Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Business and Law. Her research interests include feminist and critical approaches to entrepreneurship education, the social embeddedness of women’s business growth trajectories, and the role of class and gender in the enterprise culture. She is head of the Sylvia Pankhurst Research Centre and co-chairs the Gender and Enterprise Network (GEN), a Special Interest Group of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). Her work is published in journals such as International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Gender, Work and Organization, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
The title of her presentation will be: Gender, Class and Higher Education
Ms Sara Hawthorn is the Managing Director of InFusion Comms.
Sara is managing director of a specialist PR agency with bases in Leeds and Glasgow. An accredited PR practitioner with the CIPR, she has been a visiting lecturer in digital marketing at Leeds Trinity University and was cited as one of the Shaw Trust’s top 100 influential people with a disability in 2018. An ardent activist around disability and inclusion in PR she set up the Disability PR network, is an advisor on The Blueprint to help BME PR Pros secure more senior roles within industry and increase retention rates and has run workshops and seminars at PR industry conferences on how to make the sector less exclusive.
The title of her presentation will be: Disability, entrepreneurship and building empathy in business
Dr Gretchen Larsen is an Associate Professor in Marketing at Durham University. Gretchen’s research is located within interpretive and critical consumer research, at the intersection of consumption, markets and the arts. Her work examines the importance of the arts, particularly sound and music, in helping consumers experience and make sense of their world. It focuses specifically on how the position of the consumer in a socio-cultural world is constructed, performed, interpreted, questioned and experienced through, and in relation to the arts.
The title for this research presentation would be : Creativity, Gender and the World of Rock: Music Groupies and the Othering of Women
Abstract: Gender and marketplace roles intersect to frame who is considered creative or production in the world of rock. Groupies are understood as a particular type of fan that are most commonly associated with rock music. The label ‘groupie’ is almost exclusively applied to female fans but sometimes also to female music producers, and is largely used in a derogatory manner both by the popular media and by fans themselves. This paper argues that the ‘groupie’ label is used to ‘other’ and exclude women from creative production in rock music and then outlines the processes and mechanisms of othering by which this happens.
Prof. Claire Leitch holds the Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) and currently is Associate Dean (Staffing). Previously she was Head of Department, Leadership and Management. In her current role, she has responsibility for ensuring the local application of the University’s People Strategy. Within LUMS she is leading a complex change management project which seeks to leverage academic performance through re-profiling the staffing complement and is also Academic Lead for the School’s Athena SWAN application.
She has a research reputation of international standing and recognition in gender, leadership and learning in entrepreneurial contexts. Taking a critical perspective, she is drawing on theories from geography and sociology to address ongoing theoretical, organisational and policy concerns effecting individual and organisational development. Recent work explores the enduring and global problem of the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles and positions of influence, including in entrepreneurial ventures. Her work has been published in a number of leading international journals and from 2016-2019 she was Editor of International Small Business Journal.
The title of her presentation will be : Women Entrepreneurs Sensemaking and Exercise of Power: Towards more agentic understandings (co-authored with Valerie Stead)
Prof Sue Marlow is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Birmingham, UK and holder of the Queens Award for Enterprise and Fellow of the UK Institution for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is also Editor of the top-rated academic journals, the International Small Business Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. With theoretical expertise in diverse aspects of entrepreneurial behaviour, and a particular expertise in gender bias, her research has been published in a wide range of US, UK and European peer reviewed journals.
The title of her presentation will be : The rhetoric and reality of entrepreneurship as emancipation for women.
Abstract: Within this presentation, I question the claims that entrepreneurship offers women greater choice and freedom to combine earning with caring. Rather, for women returns to entrepreneurship are notably poorer than employment whilst they are denied a range of State benefits due to self-employed status. Thus, the rhetoric of enterprise does not reflect the reality of experience so why is entrepreneurship still being ‘peddled’ to women as a positive option?
Mrs Pheona Matovu – Co-founder and Strategic Director, Radiant and Brighter Community Interest Company
Pheona is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Radiant and Brighter Community Interest Company an award-winning social enterprise founded with her husband Micheal Matovu .
The organisation is currently leading the way in developing a better understanding for ethnic diversity in Scotland working with minority ethnic communities and partnering with a range of expert organisations as well as highly experienced individuals from recognised businesses to support integration, employment and business start-up programs.
In November 2016 Radiant and Brighter became part of Social Innovation Partnership with the Scottish Government (Social Justice Directorate) and The Hunter Foundation. This Partnership aims to promote collaboration between social entrepreneurs, statutory agencies and independent funders to challenge and disrupt existing systems in order to tackle poverty and inequalities. The company also provides End to End Workforce Diversification programs for public, private and third sector organisations, Leadership and Enterprise programs and Orientation and Integration services, for Minority Ethnic groups. Company partnerships include Marks & Spencer with whom they developed the Connecting Talent and Opportunity program which led to M&S employing over 80 people to diversify their workforce.
Pheona is dedicates her time to working for change having been inspired by a time in her life when she was not allowed to do paid work or access public funds for a period of 5 years due to immigration controls in the UK. Following this period, Pheona graduated from Glasgow University with a Community Development Degree, expertise which she now applies in her work with communities along with her 15 years’ experience of more than 15 years working with migrant communities in the UK.
She is passionate about entrepreneurship, business for good, ethnic diversity, family, community development, poverty alleviation, informal education, children and young people, women’s contribution and access to opportunities, and economic empowerment for all.
She will deliver a joint presentation with Ms Anne Meikle. The title of the presentation will be: Diversity, Intersectionality, and Women’s Enterprise policy in Scotland.
Ms Anne Meikle Anne Meikle has over 30 years’ experience working in the field of equality and human rights. She is a self-employed consultant specialising in research and policy development in equality, gender and economic development. Prior to co-establishing a consultancy company, Cearta Associates, Anne managed several equality projects in the public and third sector in Scotland; managed the Equality Issues Unit at Save the Children Fund and developed the first Scottish partnership in equality and economic development, Fair Play Scotland, at the Equal Opportunities Commission.
Anne has extensive experience in developing and supporting partnership organisations as a facilitator, trainer and manager. She has co-authored publications on topics including, guidance on economic development and equal opportunities; the contribution of childcare to economic development; policy and gender-based violence and employment; occupational segregation in modern apprenticeship schemes; and produced many practical guidance tools for businesses on issues of legal compliance and best practice in equality.
Anne is presently a trustee of Scottish Detainee Visitors.; and a trustee of the Women’s Fund for Scotland. She is also a member of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group.
Currently, Anne is contracted part time as policy and parliamentary manager for Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES), a community interest company which inspires and supports women to start and grow their own businesses. WES worked with the Scottish Government to publish the Framework for Women in Enterprise in 2018. This framework lays the foundation for action through which the primary stakeholders in the enterprise eco-system can significantly boost the existing economic contribution of women’s enterprise.
She will deliver a joint presentation with Mrs Pheona Matovu.
The title of the presentation will be: Diversity, Intersectionality, and Women’s Enterprise policy in Scotland.
Prof. Kiran Trehan Professor of Leadership and Enterprise Development, Director of the Centre for Women’s Enterprise, Leadership, Economy & Diversity [WE LEAD], Head of subject group Entrepreneurship and Local Economy & Director of External Engagement, Birmingham University, Business school. Email [email protected]
Kiran Trehan is a key contributor to debates on leadership, enterprise development and diversity in small firms and business. She has led a number of leadership , enterprise and business support initiatives and has extensively published a number of journal articles, policy reports, books and book chapters in the field. Her work has been supported by grants from a full range of research funding bodies; including the Economic and Social Research Councils and Arts Humanities Research councils, government departments, regional and local agencies including Local Enterprise Partnerships and Chambers of Commerce and the private sector. She has also received invitations as Guest Editor from reputable international journals (Human Relations, Management Learning, International Small Business Journal), as well as national and international advisory roles that shape debates and policy in diversity and enterprise.
Professor Trehan has a national and international reputation in a senior research capacity: publishing in peer reviewed journals of a high quality; being an invited professor/scholar in Europe and internationally, presenting at a range of policy and research events, conferences and symposia with policy-makers and community networks to pioneer and promote research and engagement which facilitates widening participation. The research embeds the complementary concerns of practitioners, policy-makers and academics by converting academic insights into effective action, policy initiatives and sustainable impact.
In 2019 Professor Trehan was elected to be the President of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). ISBE is the leading national body for SME research and policy learning.
Professor Trehan was invited to be one of the lead commissioners on the West Midlands Leadership Commission to lead a new research and policy agenda on leadership diversity in Small firms for Andy Street and the West Midlands combined authority. The final report was commended by the Prime Minister Theresa May and was featured in the Times Higher
The title of her presentation will be : Minority Women Entrepreneurs doing it for themselves; Intersectionality An illusion or collusion?
Prof. Fiona Wilson is currently Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has also been employed at the University of St Andrews, Bradford Management Centre and Manchester Business School. She has published two books and around 44 articles in journals such as AMR, ASQ, Sociology, Work, Employment and Society, Organization, Organization Studies and Human Relations. Her research interests are focussed mainly on equality and gender at work.
The title of her presentation will be: Women academics and their discontents