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A Research Group Investigating the Impacts of Enterprising and Entrepreneurial Education Worldwide

About Us

The Impact Research Group are a cross institutional group of researchers interested in exploring the impacts of enterprising and entrepreneurial education (EEE) in a wide range of contexts.

The group grew from an Enterprise Education and Research Project Fund (EERPF) award from Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) in 2019. The original grant enabled our team to produce a world-leading review of personal self-assessment tools for EEE competencies, (available via the ETC ToolKit) and an analysis of policy outcomes in the UK.

Since the completion of the project in 2020 the group has grown, and now numbers around 38 researchers based across the globe, all of whom are interested in exploring the impacts of EEE.

The group would like to thank the University of Buckingham and the Royal Northern College of Music who have funded the purchase of data from JISC and research staff to support several of our current projects.

Publications:

Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Bozward, D., Mave, M., Curtis, V. Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R. and Adams, N. (2020) Assessing the Impacts of Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Education. Presented at IEEC in Birmingham. Slides Available Here

Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Bozward, D., Mave, M., Curtis, V. Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R. and Adams, N. (2021) Measuring Impacts in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education, What Works? Presented at Leuphana Transformation Entrepreneurship Days.

Bozward, D., Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Mave, M., Curtis, V. Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R. and Adams, N. (2021) The Impact of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education on Regional Development. Presented at ISBE in Cardiff. ISBN: 978-1-900862-33-2 Here

Bozward D., Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Mave, M., Curtis, V., Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R., and Adams, N. (2022) Exploring the Outcomes of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in UK HEI’s: An Excellence Framework Perspective. Industry and Higher Education. Here

Smith, K., Rogers-Draycott, M., and Bozward, D. (2022) Exploring the Graduate Outcomes data for entrepreneurial activity: A first look at the new UK survey of graduate destinations. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference 2022, York, United Kingdom.

Bozward, D., Rogers-Draycott, M., Angba, C. et al. (2023) How can entrepreneurial interventions in a university context impact the entrepreneurial intention of their students?. Entrepreneurship Education. 6, 1–23 (2023) Here

Rogers-Draycott M, Bozward D, Smith K, Mave M, Curtis V, and Maragh D. (2024) Does Entrepreneurship Education Deliver? A Review of Entrepreneurship Education University Programmes in the UK. Education Sciences. 14(4):361. Here

Maragh, D. (2024) A Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Extracurricular Entrepreneurship Education. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 0(0). Here

Preedy, S. and Beaumont E. (2024) Extracurricular Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Activity: A Global and Holistic Perspective. Extracurricular Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Activity: A Global and Holistic Perspective Vol 19. Emerald Publishing Limited. London Here

Current Projects:

A Qualitative Review of Enterprise Programmes – Matt (Lead), Bethan, Zeineb, Keith, David
A Quantitative Review of Enterprise Programmes – David (Lead), Matt, Kelly, Vic, Dean
EE Tools Project (Testing) – Michelle (Lead), Matt, Kelly
EE Tools Project (Lit Review) – Pete (Lead), AJ, Carol, Gisa, Mokuba, Zeineb, Victoria