During this event supported by Enterprise Educators UK, you will hear from a variety of individuals across the UK Higher Education sector who teach and encourage doctoral students to be more entrepreneurial.

Programme Outline

10.00-10.10 Welcome Jerry Allen, Director for Entrepreneurship UCL

10.10-10.30 Why doctoral students make great entrepreneurs – what we have learned from the SPERO programme, Dr Ruth Weir UCL

10.30-10.50 Project ISIKLE and evaluating mind-set change in PhD entrepreneurship programmes, Dr Hannah Williams UCL

10.50-11.10 Developing the Entrepreneurial Mind-set of Doctoral Researchers – Lessons from ICR Programme at MEC, Dr Fatemeh Salehi, University of Manchester

11.10-11.20 Break

11.20-11.40 Why and How We are Training PhD Students to Be Entrepreneurial at King’s. Rachel Stockey, Kings College London

11.40-12.00 But what if I’m not an Entrepreneur? Experiments in acceleration, Augusta Critchley, Project Coordinator, MedTech SuperConnector, Imperial College London

12.00-12.10 Anne Miller Enterprise Programme Manager, Doctoral students & ECRs, University of Oxford ‘Insights supporting doctoral students who identify as women to become entrepreneurs’

12.10-12.20 Agata Zborowska, COO Conception X ‘Shaping doctoral acceleration’

12.20-12.50 Chaired discussion

12.50-13.00 Concluding remarks

Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Potential of Doctoral Students