Dr Caroline Parkinson

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Dr Caroline Parkinson PhD, PgCertHE, MA, BA Hons

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

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Biography

I am an entrepreneurship researcher and practitioner with teaching experience spanning 20 years in Higher Education.  Prior to joining MMU in 2022, I worked at Lancaster University Management School and University of Bradford School of Management and in an associate capacity with the Management Schools at Liverpool and York Universities, as well as the TIAS School for Business and Society in the Netherlands. My research combines interests in place, community and socio-economic inequality with a focus on social and linguistic constructions of entrepreneurship. I am interested in how sections of society are differently enabled to participate in their own futures through entrepreneurship, often as a response to marginalisation and potentially precarious futures. I have experience of designing, delivering and assessing learning across a range of UG and PG entrepreneurship provision as a module and programme leader. I have also supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students.

Get in touch

5.06a Business School
Mondays 12-1pm

Projects

Institute for Family Business 2015-16. Research project on Next Generation Engagement in Family Businesses.  Completed in July 2016. (Co-investigator).

‘Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Innovation’.  Sponsored by EU Framework 7, IRSES Crossing Boundaries. Completed in December 2016. (Co-investigator).

Aspire-i 2015. Evaluation of the Get Bradford Working: Step up to Business project. Completed in April 2015. (Principal Investigator).

Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship RAKE Fund 2013 (Research and Knowledge Exchange. Research project title: ‘Any Place for Business? The future of entrepreneurial cultures in deprived areas’. Completed in March 2015. (Principal Investigator).

Teaching

Currently teaching on:

UG

Innovation and Creativity Skills for Business

Management Studies in Context

Entrepreneurs, Business in a Global Society 

PG

Entrepreneurial Development 

Critical Enquiry for Entrepreneurs and Leaders

Global Online

Research Project (MSc Entrepreneurship)

Research outputs

Peer reviewed journal articles

Parkinson, C., Nowak, V., Howorth, C. and Southern A. (2020) ‘Multipartite attitudes to enterprise: A comparative study of young people and place’, International Small Business Journal. Article first published online: January 9, 2020, Doi.org/10.1177/0266242619892829 (CABS ranked 3; article internally ranked 4 for REF).

Parkinson, C., Howorth, C. and Southern, A. (2016) ‘The crafting of an (un)enterprising community: Context and the social practice of talk’, International Small Business Journal,1-20. Published online, DOI: 10.1177/0266242615621123. (CABS ranked 3). 

Howorth, C., Smith, S. and Parkinson, C. (2012) ‘Social learning and social entrepreneurship education’, Academy of Management, Learning & Education, 11(3) (CABS ranked 4).  

Parkinson, C. and Howorth, C. (2008) ‘The language of social entrepreneurs’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 20(3): 285-309 (CABS ranked 3).

Book chapters

Howorth, C., Parkinson, C. and MacDonald, M. (2011) ‘Discursive chasms: an examination of the language and promotion of social enterprise’, in A. Southern (ed) Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The role of small business in addressing social and economic inequalities, New York: Routledge.

Southern, A. and Parkinson, C. (2011) ‘Conclusion: the role of enterprise in addressing social and economic inequalities’, in A. Southern (ed) Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The role of small business in addressing social and economic inequalities, New York: Routledge.

Howorth C., Parkinson, C . and Southern, A. (2009) ‘Does enterprise discourse have the power to enable or disable deprived communities?’ in D. Smallbone, H. Lanstrom and D.Jones-Evans (eds) Entrepreneurship And Growth In Local, Regional And National Economies: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Reports

Howorth, C., Parkinson, C., Stead, V., Leitch, C. (2016). Next Generation Engagement in Family Businesses. IFB Research Foundation: London, UK.

Parkinson, C. et al. (2015) Evaluation of the Step Up to Business Project 2013-2015, report submitted to City of Bradford MDC, April 2015.

Parkinson, C., Southern, A., Howorth C. and Nowak, V. (2015) Any Place for Business? The Future of Entrepreneurial Cultures in More and Less Deprived Areas, research report submitted to the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, March 2015.

Parkinson, C. et al. (2013) Get Bradford Working – from the Shadow to the Sustained Economy. Phase 1: Research Report, submitted to City of Bradford MDC, May 2013.