Professor Norin Arshed
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Personal statement
Norin joined Strathclyde University in August 2023 and is Professor, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Director of Research for the Hunter Centre. She is an economist by background with professional experience both in the public and private sectors. Norin’s work focuses on enterprise policy. She is also interested in how entrepreneurs and SMEs experience and use such policy initiatives. She has been exploring women’s enterprise policy, unconventional entrepreneurship, scale-ups, the entrepreneurial ecosystem and contextual entrepreneurship. Much of her work draws on institutional theory. Norin has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work on “Cultivating entrepreneurship for women leaving the criminal justice system.” She has been successful in attracting grant income from various funding bodies which include the Scottish Universities Insight Institute, British Academy, Carnegie, Innovation Caucus (UKRI), and ESRC, as well as funding awards from the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament. Previously, Norin was an Impact Assessor for REF 2021 Sub-panel 17: Business and Management Studies. As a direct result of her work in women’s enterprise, Norin was appointed as an Independent Government Advisor to the Scottish Government’s Minister of Business, Fair Skills and Work (2019-21). She was also awarded a Scottish Parliament Fellowship to undertake a Scotland-wide research project on how women entrepreneurs are coping in the pandemic (2021-22). Furthermore, she held an appointment as a subject expert on the external Peer Review Group at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (2020-23). Norin’s current external roles include being a member of the Council of the Society of Advanced Management Studies, a member of the advisory board for Innovation Caucus (ESRC and Innovate UK) and she is the Research Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 89Initiative, a think tank created by the London School of Economics.
Publications
- Gender Export Gap in Scotland
- Arshed Norin, Knox Stephen, Marin-Cadavid Carolina
- (2025)
- Can Scotland deliver on circular economy, social upgrading, and internationalisation? Insights from a knowledge exchange initiative
- Marques-McEwan Melissa, Bititci Umit, MacBryde Jillian, Paterson Audrey, Arshed Norin, Jackson William, Oyelakin John
- (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.17861/S4VQ-GF13
- Street level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems
- Knox Stephen, Arshed Norin
- Public Administration Review Vol 84, pp. 918-931 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13761
- Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration in Scotland's City Region Deal
- Knox Stephen, Arshed Norin
- (2023)
- Ties that bind or blind? The role of identity and place in understanding women entrepreneurs' support needs
- Arshed Norin, Martin Graeme, Knox Stephen
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, pp. 1-28 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221134786
- The introduction of anti-tax evasion legislation in Thailand : an institutional theoretical perspective
- Natpraypant Vorakanlaya, Arshed Norin, Power David
- Accounting Forum, pp. 1-27 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2092813
Professional Activities
- Ex-offenders can become successful entrepreneurs – here’s what the prisons minister should do to make it happen
- Recipient
- 14/8/2024
- Teaching prisoners to start businesses can help them return to society
- Recipient
- 2023
Projects
- Making motherhood work: Supporting mothers in academia
- McMillan, Carolyn (Principal Investigator) Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator) Wilson, Juliette (Co-investigator)
- There is no shortage of literature surrounding academic mothers and the stark differences between men and women in academia in terms of promotion rates, salary, and workload, amongst other factors . Research highlights that there has only been a marginal improvement for academic mothers in recent decades . This is not only detrimental at an individual level, but also represents lost potential economic and social value at an institutional level. As key stakeholders, mothers need a voice and a role in shaping policy and practice within academia.
In response to calls encouraging universities to better support mother academics, the Making Motherhood Work project aims to support the professional development of academic mothers at the University of Strathclyde by exploring the challenges and barriers they face when juggling their caring responsibilities and developing their careers within the institution.
Funded by the University of Strathclyde's Institutional Funding for Research Culture Award, Cultures of Collaborative Research (Wellcome Trust). - 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Enabling the forgotten woman in Scotland "Potential Entrepreneurs for the future"
- Arshed, Norin (Principal Investigator)
- 06-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Cultivating entrepreneurship for women leaving the criminal justice system
- Arshed, Norin (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- A circular Scotland in Europe: Overcoming post-Brexit challenges to deliver on internationalization, circular economy, and sustainability
- Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator)
- Scottish Universities Insight Institute June 2023 £20000
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Women's entrepreneurship at the periphery
- Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Research organisation-business-local public policy engagement
- Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator)
- Innovation Caucus and ESRC (Nov. 2022) -£15,000
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Norin
Arshed
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Email: n.arshed@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted