Success in funding applications from research councils

Dr Polina Baranova

Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Derby

Dr Polina Baranova is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Derby.  She is a Co-track Chair of the Sustainable and Responsible Business Special Interest Group at the British Academy of Management. She has been serving as the Chair of the College Research Ethics Committee (CREC) since 2018 and has an extensive experience in research ethics. The research of Polina Baranova lies at the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. She has published in Business Strategy and the Environment, Local Economy, and Business Ethics: A European Review. She is a research lead for ERDF Low Carbon Business Network project, and ERDF DE-Carbonise project.

Prof Krsto Pandza

Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Leeds University Business School

Krsto Pandza is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Leeds University Business School. He holds positions of Director of Research Impact and Director of the Centre for Technology Innovation and Engagement. Krsto’s research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, technology innovation and organizational theory. Combining these different fields of management studies enables him to investigate organizational responses to discontinuous technological changes and the role of managerial agency in shaping organizational capabilities. He is increasingly interested in how advanced digital technologies influence processes of strategic decision making and practices of professional strategists and innovation managers. Krsto has won two major EU-funded projects focused on strategic management of technology innovation, which enabled him to collaborate closely with companies such as Ericsson, Intel, GSK, IBM and Bayer. His work has been published in Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, British Journal of Management and Strategic Management Review. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board at the Journal of Management Studies.

Prof Stephen Roper

Director, Enterprise Research Centre

Professor Stephen Roper is Director of the ESRC funded Enterprise Research Centre and co-Director of the Research England funded National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise. Stephen has developed over eighty successful externally-funded research bids with the most recent (2022) being a £1.9m award from ESRC for a project on employers’ mental health and well-being practices.

Dr Helen Goworek

Associate Professor in Marketing, Durham University

Helen is Associate Professor in Marketing at Durham University and Co-chair of the BAM Sustainable and Responsible SIG. Her teaching and research explore various aspects of marketing, with specific interests in sustainability, buying behaviour and product development. She has been involved in funded research projects regarding sustainable fashion. Helen worked in industry in buying and design management in the clothing industry for several years. She is the author of books and articles on the fashion business, retailing and sustainability.

Dr Dianne Welsh

Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina Greensboro

DIANNE H.B. WELSH is the Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship/Founder of the Entrepreneurship Programs at The University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her research includes women-owned family businesses, franchising, and the Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and creativity of family businesses that includes 24 refereed journal articles and 37 presentations on family business out of 115 refereed journal articles.  She is a Certified Family Business Advisor and Fellow with the Family Firm Institute. She is the recipient of the Barbara Hollander Award for lifelong contributions to family business, as well as the lifetime achievement awards from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, and the Deshpande Foundation.  

Dr Inge Hill

Prof Wilson Ng

Professor of Entrepreneurship, IDRAC Business School

Wilson Ng, PhD is a tenured Professor of Entrepreneurship at IDRAC Business School in Lyon, France. Wilson researches processes of opportunity creation in challenge-based ventures. These ventures face existential threats from their operating environment, principally in Wilson’s research when their founders are cognitively and/or physically impaired. Wilson also researches challenge-based entrepreneurs in Do-It-Yourself laboratories who are able to exploit severe competition from incumbent businesses, and migrant entrepreneurs who create ventures by negotiating hostile economic and social barriers.

Prior to higher education, Wilson enjoyed a long career as a corporate finance adviser, initially with Rothschild & Co., and then with the Guthrie Group. Wilson continues to advise technology ventures as an advisory board member of a FinTech start-up in London (https://crowdforangels.com/our-team) and as a non-executive director of a research venture in high-temperature superconducting based in Cambridge, UK.

Wilson has an MA and PhD in Management Studies from Trinity College, Cambridge. He also holds an MBA from London University and a postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

In the British Academy of Management, Wilson has been the elected Track Chair of the Entrepreneurship SIG since 2018. He was previously Treasurer from 2011. Wilson is also a member of BAM’s Peer Review College.