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Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Potential of Doctoral Students

Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Potential of Doctoral Students
Dates:29 June 2021
Times:10:00 - 13:00
What is it:Webinar
Organiser:Masood Entrepreneurship Centre
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers
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The Masood Enterprise Centre have been collaborating with University College London on a two-year project which aims to demonstrate and evaluate effective practices in student engagement in knowledge exchange activities.

This collaborative online workshop, also supported by Enterprise Educators UK, focuses on innovative practices in identifying, recruiting and nurturing entrepreneurial mindsets with doctoral students.

Programme Outline

10.00-10.10 Welcome Jerry Allen, Director for Entrepreneurship UCL

10.10-10.30 Why doctoral students make great entrepreneurs – what we have learned from the SPERO programme, Dr. Ruth Weir UCL

10.30-10.50 Project ISIKLE and evaluating mind-set change in Ph.D. entrepreneurship programmes, Dr. Hannah Williams UCL

10.50-11.10 Developing the Entrepreneurial Mind-set of Doctoral Researchers – Lessons from ICR Programme at MEC, Dr. Fatemeh Salehi, University of Manchester

11.10-11.20 Break

11.20-11.40 Why and How We are Training Ph.D. Students to Be Entrepreneurial at King’s. Rachel Stockey, Kings College London

11.40-12.00 But what if I’m not an Entrepreneur? Experiments in acceleration, Augusta Critchley, Project Coordinator, MedTech SuperConnector, Imperial College London

12.00-12.20 Creating employable Ph.D.s and Ph.D. employers, Gareth Trainer, Newcastle University

Price: Free

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