Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship triumph at conference

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(L-R: Professor Robert Blackburn and Aneesh Banerjee)

Members of the Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship recently attended the 44th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference together with 250 delegates at the University of York and came away with five trophies for their papers.

Congratulations to Professor Dilani Jayawarna, Dr David Higgins, Professor Robert Blackburn and Ossie Jones who won the best paper award in their conference track. The conference tracks and paper titles are:

  • Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure: ‘Why do founders choose to exit via Employee Ownership? A comparative analysis of employee-owned businesses in the UK’;
  • Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning: ‘Identifying Sustainable Business Opportunities: The Role of Entrepreneurial Learning’;
  • Enterprise Education: ‘Learning through Scribbles… Collaborative auto ethnographic approach to teaching’;
  • Gender and Enterprise: ‘Mythbusting meritocracy: an intersectional feminist labour market perspective on racial capitalism and UK self-employment’.

The award ceremony concluded with Best Conference 2022 Paper being awarded to Dilani Jayawarna for her paper: ‘Mythbusting meritocracy: an intersectional feminist labour market perspective on racial capitalism and UK self-employment’.

Taking place on Thursday 27 – Friday 28 October, ISBE 2022 brought together leading regional national, international experts in small business and entrepreneurship research policy, and practice. Over the two-day conference, attendees explored how to raise entrepreneurial opportunity and what role universities, business and government play to deliver levelling up.