The Small Business Research Centre Team

Researchers

• Professor Robert Blackburn PhD, Director SBRC
• Professor David Smallbone BSc MSc (Hon) PhD, Associate Director SBRC
• Professor Elizabeth Chell PhD
• Professor Dirk De Clercq
• Professor Audley Genus 
• Dr John Kitching PhD, Reader
• Rosemary Athayde MSc, Senior Researcher
• Dr Thomas Wainwright BA, MSc, PhD, Researcher
• Dr Christopher Kronenberg PhD, Lecturer
• Vik Gill BA, LLB, MBA, LLM, Researcher
• Eva Kasperova BA, MRes, Research Assistant

Research Administrator

• Valerie Thorne

Associate Members

• Robin Jarvis BA, FCCA
• Dr David Stokes PhD
• Nick Wilson MA (Cantab) MBA

Visiting Professors and Fellows

• Professor Anne Kovalainen, Turku School of Economics
• Professor Friederike Welter
• Ewald Kibler
• Dr Jari Kuusisto MSc, PhD
• Sue Lawton MA (HRM) MA (Soc Ent) MCIPD
• Richard Parkes
• David Purdy

Research Students

• Suthinee Mongkol

Suthinee is a first year PhD student. Her PhD is on “The Role of Networks in the Internationalization of SMEs in Thailand: A Case Study of Food-Ingredient Enterprises”. Suthinee’s research will focus on the role of networks in SME internationalization in Thailand. The study will emphasise the SME use of networks when internationalising and the effect of Thailand’s network structural characteristics on SME internationalization on food-ingredient SMEs.

• Chi Maher (DBA student)

Chi's research aims to develop our knowledge and understanding of managerial careers in the Not - For - Profit (NFP) voluntary sector by examining the career orientations and preferred career path of managers working in the sector.

• Eva Kasperova

Eva's PhD examines entrepreneurial identity, disability and embodiment, exploring how business owners with impairments negotiate and construct their identity. The aim is to understand the role of the body in entrepreneurship and the formation of identity.

• Vik Gill

Vik's research aims to develop our knowledge and understanding of social enterprises and social entrepreneurship by examining how technologies provide competitive advantages in social ventures, and whether the adoption of technology differs between commercial and social enterprises.

• Rebecca Fakoussa

Rebecca's PhD focuses on boards of directors and board diversity, specifically in the context of family businesses. The research aim is to develop an understanding around board practises including directors development, women and non-executives on the board, as well as processes involved in boards working together and reaching consensus.

• Pia Schou Nielsen

Pia Schou Nielsen from the University of Southern Denmark, is studying in the Small Business Research Centre to work on her PhD for 6 months. Her research focuses on the implementation processes and structures of entrepreneurship policy. Pia has just entered into the second year of her studies at University of Southern Denmark, and during her stay she will be supervised by Professor David Smallbone. Pia’s PhD studies are co-financed by a Danish local authority, Vejle Business Development Agency, where she has spent some of her time, learning about the practices of local business development and growth policies. Apart from her PhD studies, Pia is involved in a European INTERREG IVC project called Enspire EU, which focuses on fostering entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial spirit across Europe.  For more information please contact Pia on  p.nielsen@kingston.ac.uk