Dr Eleanor Shaw

 
Eleanor’s research interests are in the areas of networks, social capital, gender, creative industry small firms, social enterprises and venture philanthropy. Eleanor was a key contributor to an ESRC-funded project exploring the relationship and dynamics between bank lending officers and small business owners. Eleanor is leading a project exploring entrepreneurial philanthropy  funded by the ESRC, Office of the Third Sector (OTS) in the Cabinet Office, The Carnegie UK Trust and the Scottish Government and located at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde Business School.

Eleanor’s policy and research reports include an Industrial Society policy paper Unequal Entrepreneurs: Why Female Enterprise is an Uphill Business with a foreword by Will Hutton and a DTI Small Business Service Research Report Women’s Business Ownership: Recent Research and Policy Developments with a foreword by Margaret Hodge. Eleanor sits on the editorial board of : International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and the International Journal of Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research.

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