``Capacity Building for Entrepreneurship Research and Teaching``

2020-2021

About The Project

Our project, “Building and Supporting a Research-Informed, Practice-Led Environment for Innovative Entrepreneurship to Flourish” is a partnership between Izmir University of Economics, Business Faculty and University of the West of England, Bristol Business School and funded by British Council Newton Fund Research Environment Links Award.

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Creativity in Research, work by Jenny Leonard

Through providing knowledge transfer from UWE to IUE, we targeted to;

  • Develop the capacity of Turkish researchers for conducting practice-relevant, impactful research in the field of  entrepreneurship,
  • Develop the capacity of Turkish educators as enterprise educators adapting UWE educators’ pedagogical expertise for designing and delivering research-informed, practice-driven, team-led teaching and learning strategies,
  • Consolidate Turkish – UK research network on multidisciplinary entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education studies.

Our Goal

We built sustainable links between UWE and IUE researchers, research centre directors, and educators through a series of workshops and activities. Through knowledge and expertise transfer from UWE to IUE in the field of innovative entrepreneurship, we built IUE’s capacity to lead the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem.

For further information about the project, please contact Project Co-Leaders Burcu Guneri Cangarli at burcu.guneri@ieu.edu.tr and Selen Unluoglu at selen.kars@uwe.ac.uk.
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Creativity in Research, work by Jenny Leonard

Events and activities have been planned between February 2020 to January 2021. However, due to pandemic, activities have been shifted and carried online.

September, 28- October, 2 2020/ Creativity in Research Workshops:

“Creativity in Research Workshop” focussed on creating awareness of the novel creative methods such as ethnography, visual methods, narrative research, art-based methods and the value created by implementation of these methods in the area of entrepreneurship research.

September 2020 - February 2021/ Participants’ field application of the research methods and perspectives discussed in “Creativity in Research Workshops”:

“Creativity in Research Workshop” led to creation of research groups allowing the participants to put their learning to work by applying the novel methods they were introduced to a real-life research project in teams. The research design and data collection have been completed and the project teams are now focussing on analysis and dissemination.

December 2020/ Enterprise Educators Training:

This event supported, informed and enabled academic staff to develop as enterprise educators. It supported staff to develop a research-informed approach to teaching and learning and design a more enterprising and innovative curricula. The focus was on introducing the participants to approaches to embed contemporary research and thinking on innovative entrepreneurship to course syllabi and to embed higher education research on novel pedagogies and educational tools that have been implemented in UK universities. Although, it was originally planned to take place in UK, due to COVID-19 measures, it was carried online with the close supervision of UWE Enterprise Educators.

February 2021/ Workshop on Pathways for Dissemination of Research:

This workshop has two main parts; the first part cultivated professional networks and mentorship to equip Turkish researchers with necessary knowledge and skills to publish entrepreneurship research in high-quality journals. Secondly, the workshop introduced channels for dissemination beyond academia such as organising and delivering research showcases, writing for industry outlets, and networking with practitioners and policy-makers to promote themselves and their research confidently while establishing relevance.

Creativity in Research Workshops

Workshop Schedule

Full schedule of keynotes, sessions & workshops

10:00 - 11:00Synchronous

Welcome and Introductions

• Mapping our week together
11:00 - 13:00Asynchronous
Assoc Prof Dr Harriet Shortt
Assoc Prof Dr Harriet Shortt

Associate Professor at Bristol Business School

Session 1 – Giving voice to participants through co-creative methods

• Background and Foundations – how social researchers see through the eyes of their participants? • Reflective Exercise – how this might work for you?
13:00 – 14:30Synchronous
Dr Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu
Dr Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu

Senior Lecturer at Bristol Business School

Session 1 – Giving voice to participants through co-creative methods

• Share and Reflect – sharing stories from our fieldwork and reflecting as a group • Windows into Practice – An exploration into implication for practice, including benefits and challenges.
14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30Asynchronous
Dr Arthur Turner
Dr Arthur Turner

Senior Lecturer at Bristol Business School

Session 2 – Inquiring into practice through material engagement theory

• Background and Foundations – what is material engagement theory and what are its main tenets?
16:30 – 18:30Synchronous
Dr Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu
Dr Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu

Senior Lecturer at Bristol Business School

Session 2 -Inquiring into practice through material engagement theory

• Reflective Exercise – how we can engage with materials/ artefacts? • Share and Reflect – sharing impressions, applications in practice and implications for our practice as social researchers.
10:00 – 13:00Asynchronous
Assoc Prof Hugo Gaggiotti
Assoc Prof Hugo Gaggiotti

Associate Professor in Work and Employment at the University of the West of England

Session 3- Working with emergence in the research process

• Background and Foundations – how the theory of emergence can be understood? What are its philosophical foundations? • Working with emergence in the research process – what are the implications of emergence for space, place, pace, (non)direction and researcher reflexivity?
13:00 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 17:00Synchronous
Dr Arthur Turner
Dr Arthur Turner

Session 3 -Working with emergence in the research process

• Windows into practice – sharing stories of emergence and non-directiveness. • Share and Reflect – sharing approaches to work with emergent practice, including illustrations of co-coaching, co-production and double-loop thinking
10:00 – 13:00Asynchronous
Assoc Prof Harriet Shortt
Assoc Prof Harriet Shortt

Bristol Business School

Session 4 – Implications of Emergence for Research Practice

• Windows into practice – sharing stories of the unexpected: What happens when research doesn’t go to plan and how to work with the unforeseen? • Reading and Reflective Exercise.
13:00 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 17:00Synchronous
Prof Carol Jarvis
Prof Carol Jarvis

Bristol Business School

Session 4 Implications of emergence for research practice

• Share and Reflect – sharing strategies and approaches to work with the unforeseen in practice
10:00 – 13:00Asynchronous
Prof Carol Jarvis
Prof Carol Jarvis

Bristol Business School

Session 5 Co-inquiry into management practice: collaborating beyond the academy

• Background and Foundations – Some principles of collaborative enquiry, inquiry based learning and non-directive facilitation (including different roles and language) • Reflective exercise – contracting and ethical issues: what do I need to think about?
13:00 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30Synchronous
Assoc Prof Hugo Gaggiotti
Assoc Prof Hugo Gaggiotti

Session 5 – Co-inquiry into management practice: collaborating beyond the academy

• Windows into practice – sharing stories of facilitating collaborative and action enquiry: how asking, and not answering, is crucial when we sensemaking.
13:00 – 17:00Synchronous

Concluding Plenary

• Practice session – Action enquiry into our learning from the week with Action Learning Sets in small groups
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The Team

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  • Prof. Dr. Burcu Güneri

    Project Leader

    Prof. Dr. Burcu Güneri

    Dr. Burcu GÜNERİ ÇANGARLI receives her PhD degree from Izmir University of Economics (IUE), in the field of organizational behavior. Since then, she has had several roles at IUE. Currently, she has been working as a full professor in the field of management and Dean of the Business Faculty. Burcu is fascinated to understand ways for designing and sustaining workplace environments where people can actualise their potential through making a positive impact on their own lives, stakeholders and community and the region. Therefore, her research areas are concentrated to leadership, ethics, culture and entrepreneurship. Moreover, she is exceedingly interested to share my knowledge with different parties; her undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and practitioners.

  • Sevay İpek AYDIN

    Director, IUE+KREA

    Sevay İpek AYDIN

    Sevay Ipek Aydın is a PhD candidate at Ege Unversity Public relations and Publicity department of the Communication faculty. She is a director of Creative Economy Research and Application Centre in the Izmir University of Economics. She is lecturer in strategic management, applied entrepreneurship and innovation disciplines. Coming from up to 15 years sectoral experience in the finance, management consultancy and technology transfer profession practice, her research focuses on the crossroads of technology and social change, with an interest in transhumanism and posthuman technologies, human/machine communication, creative economy and entrepreneurship. She has TUBITAK a European Commission Competitive Sectors project development/ management experience.

  • Prof. Dr. Mehmet Gençer

    Director, EKOGİRİŞİM

    Prof. Dr. Mehmet Gençer

    Mehmet Gençer is a professor of Organization Studies at the Izmir University of Economics, Department of Business Administration. Coming from the software practice, his research focuses on the crossroads of technology and organizations, with an interest in open innovation, organizational change and knowledge flows. His research employs social network analysis and computational approaches to explore flows of knowledge and opinions in different organizational contexts. He has several research and consultancy collaborations with agencies such as Turkish Ministry of Industry and Turkish Exporter’s Association, as well as major industry firms in Turkey.

    • Taylan Demirkaya

      Lecturer, Business Faculty

      Taylan Demirkaya

      Taylan Demirkaya has been the director of Embryonix Accelerator and Incubation Center years between 2010 - 2016. During his time in the center he has succeeded to exit 8 startups for their early stage investments. . During his time in the center he has succeeded to exit 8 startups for their early stage investments. He is lecturing in Izmir University of Economics Business Administration department andteaching applied innovation and entrepreneurship course. He is also a professional startup mentor. His mentoring area is business modelling, idea validation and customer market development.

    • Seda Çakmak

      Specialist, Technlogy Transfer Office

      Seda Çakmak

      Seda Çakmak is an Entrepreneurship Specialist at Technlogy Transfer Office, organizes university education programs for entrepreneurs and supports them in their commercialization processes. She is an social entrepreneurship and business development mentor. Master's degree in Brand Communication at Izmir University of Economics and provides support to entrepreneurs in digital communication. Manages relations between institutions and entrepreneurs as the local representative of many organizations

    • Ela Burcu Uçel

      Visiting Lecturer, Business Faculty

      Ela Burcu Uçel

      Ela Burcu is a graduate of Hacettepe University. After studying business administration, she had the chance to practice work life for 12 years. Then, she earned a scholarship from Izmir University of Economics and completed her PhD in organizational behavior. She has been teaching management, strategy and HRM at Izmir University of Economics since 2011. She also is an experienced trainer: she actively takes part in adult training programs about managerial skills, mediation, negotiation and culture. She is actively learning and teaching these topics and taking part in related research.

    • Dr. Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu

      Senior Lecturer

      Dr. Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu

      Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Bristol Business School. As a researcher, she is passionate about understanding the ways organizations develop and deploy their intangible resources, such as knowledge, capabilities, and networks to generate growth and achieve truly “organisational” learning and innovate. In researching these issues, she adopts an explicit focus on the processes, practices and micro-aspects of organisational work to understand the everyday experiences of innovation.

    • Dr. Arthur Turner

      Senior Lecturer

      Dr. Arthur Turner

      Arthur Turner is a Senior Lecturer at Bristol Business School and has an active role in the design and delivery of leadership development programmes and post-graduate vocational qualifications. His pedagogical approach encompasses a range of creative techniques, such as walking to reflect, art and poetry to reconsider, mediating objects to encourage deeper critical thought and music and silence as a means to develop more lasting development and learning opportunities. This approach to leadership learning and teaching are mirrored in his research as well which is informed by ideas of material engagement theory, soft fascination of nature, walking studies and the ideas of humans as a ‘play-species’.

    • Prof. Dr. Carol Jarvis

      Professor

      Prof. Dr. Carol Jarvis

      Carol Jarvis is a Professor in Knowledge Exchange and Innovation at Bristol Business School and plays an active role in the design and facilitation of leadership development and executive education programmes. Her current research focusses on the application of complexity approaches (Complex Responsive Processes of Relating) to leadership, coaching, innovation and entrepreneurship, to explore everyday experience of change and innovation. Her research often involves working with collaborative enquiry, action research and creative methodologies, with an emphasis on storytelling and personal narrative enquiry. Carol’s work has a strong practitioner focus and she combines a practical, hands-on approach to making things happen with academic rigour.

    • Prof. Dr. Harriet Shortt

      Assoc.

      Prof. Dr. Harriet Shortt

      Harriet Shortt is an Associate Professor in Organisation Studies at Bristol Business School. She has expertise in qualitative research methods including visual methodologies, specifically, participant-led photography. She has led research and consultancy projects with the Environment Agency Bristol, the NHS North Bristol Trust, ISG, Stride Treglown, Work Wise UK and a wide variety of Hair and Beauty Salons across the UK. Her teaching activities reflect her interest in innovative methodologies and include postgraduate and undergraduate modules in the areas of leadership studies, self-leadership, identity, creative interventions for change, and coaching and mentoring. Her pedagogical approach encompasses reflective practice and the use of visual methods.

    • Prof. Dr. Hugo Gaggiotti

      Assoc.

      Prof. Dr. Hugo Gaggiotti

      Hugo Gaggiotti is an Associate Professor in Work and Employment at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He was Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research, New York, EAE Business School, Barcelona and Hoschule University, Bremen. His research uses interdisciplinary organizational research methodologies, in particular ethnography, netnography and anthropological inspired techniques like shadowing and focusses on transcultural experiences of work and organising.

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    A huge thanks to all our amazing partners. We couldn’t have a project without you!