Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Potential of Doctoral Students | 29 June 2021 | 10am-1pm | Online
Discover innovative practices in identifying, recruiting and nurturing entrepreneurial mindsets with doctoral students
About this event
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During this event supported by Enterprise Educators UK, you will hear from a variety of individuals across the UK Higher Education sector who teach and encourage doctoral students to be more entrepreneurial.
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 PhD 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 PhD 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 PhDs and PhD employers, Gareth Trainer, Newcastle University
- 12.20-12.50 Chaired discussion
- 12.50-13.00 Concluding remarks
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