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
