Dr Anica Zeyen

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: I am an active member of the Centre for Research Into Sustainability (CRIS),  the Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisation and Society (CHRONOS) and the Centre for the Study of Pain and Wellbeing

My research interestes are social entrepreneurship and inclusive organizing. I specialize in disability and inequality. I focus on concepts such as stigma, meaning in life and at work as well as abilities.

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 / articistic methods to gain deeper understandings into the lived experience of disabled people.

I am currently invovled in interdisciplinary projects on disability and wellbeing related topics in the Uk as well as in the DRC, India, South Africa, the Phillipines, Uganda and Zambia. You can read more on my research on my blog: www.DRDiary.blog

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 2020/202 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:

• Founding Director of the Royal Holloway Enterprise Hub initiative
• "Disability, wellbeing and sustainable inclusion" GCRF cluster lead
• Disability Forum Member,  Staff Representative in the Disabled Staff Working Group and Disabled Staff Representative in Royal Holloqay Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Comittee

Outside of Royal Holloway

• PRME UK&Ireland Chapter Steering Committee Member
• 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

Useful links:

Linkedin profile

Publons priofile (overview of review activity)