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Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...Business as bricolage Bricolage refers to ‘making-do’ with limited resources in new and creative ways. How do entrepreneurs approach the realities of running a business? Lifestyle entrepreneurship: A life affirming business ethic MariaLaura unpacks the notion of ‘lifestyle’ and explores the priorities and orientations of the so-called ‘lifestyle entrepreneur’....
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Education & Development

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

...entrepreneurship Finance and accounting Human resources Marketing and communication Management and leadership Organisational and workforce development IT and technology Corporate social responsibility At the bottom of the list you'll find a selection of badged courses. These courses take 24 hours to complete and provide a free digital badge on completion which you can...
Understanding Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Cities

...entrepreneurship. What do cities have to do to survive? Humanism and cities The impacts of making the city more competitive, and whether this detracts from cities as a purely human space. Cities as moving beyond purely economic environments. Encounter or Containment? The city as a non-corporate entity - the political possibilities inherent in city spaces. The city can be...
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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...entrepreneurship, a willingness to take business risks in places that have been written off. They've brought this to Canada as well.” Hussen says In Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian Somalis have revitalized entire neighborhoods, opening small businesses, restaurants and shops. The Canadian-Somali community is not without its struggles. There's unemployment, poverty and youth...
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...entrepreneurship – women just don’t feature prominently in the industry and the numbers in accelerator programmes reflects this. The evidence, however, indicates that within Europe women own around 15% of all science engineering and technology ventures. So, where are all the women when it comes to accelerators? Their minority status in the sector does not...
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...entrepreneurship and art. Professional coaching companies, for example, regularly recommend that CEOs structure their presentations in a storytelling format. Meanwhile, Snow, (who will be paying tribute to Bruner’s work in a memorial lecture a year after his death) has used her research combining linguistics and psychology to revolutionise the way we understand...
How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...entrepreneurship – although he was eventually forced to sell Sinclair Research to Amstrad’s Alan Sugar in 1986, after a disastrous flirtation with the C5 electric vehicle. But a different kind of cultural entrepreneur was behind the micro boom, too. The “bedroom coder” of the 8-bit era usually worked alone. Their programs – lines of code recorded onto cassette...