I joined Royal Holloway as full-time academic staff in the School of Business and Management in January 2015.

Personal website: www.DrDiary.blog 

Research

Research Interests:

My research interestes are social entrepreneurship and inclusive organizing. I specialize in disability. I focus on concepts such as stigma,  inclusion/exclusion, allyship and meaning(fulness).

Through my research, I aim to better understand how to improve economic participation and societal inclusion for disabled people. This translates into research across all aspects of live including entrepreneurship for and by disabled people, disability at work (unpaid and paid)  as well as leaisure, travel and tourism. I am a qualitative researcher and use ethnographies, diary studies and visual / artistic methods to gain deeper understandings into the lived experience of disabled people.

PhD Supervision: I am interested in supervising PhD theses on social entrepreneurship and/or disability and inclusion. Please email me if you are interested.

Teaching

 During the academic year 2022/203 1 teach and lead MN3745 Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3^rd year). I  also co-teach on MN3915 Business in Context (3^rd year).

I am the founding Director of the Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub (ww.RHEnterpriseHubg.org). This extra-curricula platform supports students across Roal Holooway at all stages of the entrepreneurial process.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE).

I was awarded  the College Excellence in Teaching Award 2016 and received a Certificate of Commendation in the Team Teaching Award 2020 for my work on the Enterprise Hub.

Internal and external Roles (excerpt)

Royal Holloway:

• Eqaulity, Diversity and INclusion Director for School of Business and Managmeent
• Founding Director of the Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub initiative
• Co-Chair Disability and Mental Heatlh Staff Network
• Co-Chair Disabled Staff and Student Working Group

Outside of Royal Holloway

• Guest Editor for Journal of Buisness Ethics and Journal of Marketing Management
• Editorial Review Board Member of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Business Ethics
• Speaker, campaigner and Fundraising Group Coordinator  for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and Volunteer in various disability advocacy groups

Other links:

• Invisible - documentary about 6 disabled women activists; based on a reserach project funded by the British Academy, YouTube LInk
• Accessibility & Me - podcast series featuring disabled professionals  https://acessibilityandme.castos.com/
• Layers of Vision - Exhibition that explores the experience of 10 blind and partially sighted artists living in a world made for sighted people, www.LayersOfVision.org