Research
David’s research interest is primarily in the field of Entrepreneurial Education and learning through action. His research activity is focused towards exploring practice-based, processual as well as dialogic approaches to entrepreneurship education encompassing reflexive learning and practical wisdom. David’s current work is focused towards exploring the role of dialogism as a pedagogical practice in entrepreneurship education. His research adopts a relational social constructionist perspective where he adopts a self-critical reflexive position to explore the practice of dialogism in pedagogical inquiry, utilising various methods such as action research, art-based methods and collaborative auto-ethnographic approaches as a means to better appreciate how we educate entrepreneurship students and practitioners.
Awards & Recognition
(2015) - Emerald Reviewer Award, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research (IJEBR).
(2016) - Best Paper Winner, Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning Track, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference.
(2022) - Best Paper Winner, Entrepreneurship Education Track, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship ISBE Conference.
(2022) - Best Conference Reviewer Award, RENT Conference.
(2024) - Outstanding Author Contribution, Emerald Literati Awards
Entrepreneurship & Small Business (Learning & Education)
David’s teaching and research interests are in the field of Entrepreneurial education and learning through action. His research activity is focused towards exploring practice-based, processual as well as dialogic approaches to entrepreneurship education and learning, reflexive learning, and practical wisdom. His current research explores the role of dialogism in entrepreneurship teaching practice. He embraces a self-critical reflexive position, to explore the practice of dialogism as a form of pedagogical inquiry, utilising various art based methods such as action research and auto ethnographic approaches to how we educate entrepreneurial practitioners/students. He adopts a relational social constructionist perspective, to draw discussion towards how our understanding of “learning in action” is continually mediated and re-developed based upon our dialogical interactions with students and self.
David is actively involved in the ISBE community acting as track chair for the “Research Methods, Practice and Inquiry/Impact Track”, and serving as guest editor for scholarly journals. David holds a position on the British Academy of Management Research Methods Special Interest Group steering community, where he has planned, developed and hosted a number of professional development workshops for students and practitioners at DBA and PhD levels of study.
Research Funding
1. ESRC Research training bursary award - 2012
2. ESRC Research training bursary award - 2010
3. ESRC Research training bursary award - 2008