Biography

I am an Associate Professor within the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Warwick Business School.

I am profoundly interested in how individuals and organizations develop and scale innovation to achieve sustainable growth and lasting impact. I am especially interested in examining how innovation processes can be extended to include diverse individuals as both creators and beneficiaries of innovation. My work explores how investors make decisions about which innovations to fund, with a particular focus on high-growth and science-driven entrepreneurial settings. One aspect of my work focuses on investigating ways to make funding more accessible to women.

I am also deeply interested in exploring how firms organize their resources to scale innovation. This includes how firms recruit and hire during scaling, how they communicate startup growth to prospective employees and how unequal access to employment opportunities in startup labour markets affects workforce composition and performance.

I use archival data, survey and field experiments to investigate innovation in contexts such as high-growth entrepreneurship and top management teams.

I completed my PhD at Imperial College without corrections, supported by a fully funded PhD scholarship from the Innovation Studies Centre and the EPSRC. During my doctoral studies, I was granted access to the confidential Kauffman Firm Survey and won two awards from the E.M. Kauffman Foundation.

My work has been published in the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, and R&D Management.

I have received several research and teaching awards, including the WBS Outstanding Contribution to Research Award (2016/17) and the Outstanding Published Research Paper (2018/19). My contributions to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral teaching have also been recognised through multiple teaching awards.

If you are interested in a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation please contact me directly.

Research Interests

Strategic Entrepreneurship, Investor decision-making, Micro-foundations of entrepreneurship, Inequality in Entrepreneurship and Startup Labour Markets