Professor Eleanor Shaw
Assoc Principal Ext Engage Partnerships
Strathclyde Business School
Personal statement
Professor Eleanor Shaw, OBE is an Associate Principal with responsibility for the University’s entrepreneurship strategy, 'Strathclyde Inspire'. She is also Director of Strathclyde Doctoral School. Eleanor joined Strathclyde in 2001 and became Head of the Hunter Centre in 2013. She has been Vice Dean for Knowledge Exchange and Senior Vice Dean of Strathclyde Business School. In January 2020, Eleanor became an Associate Principal and joined the University’s Executive Team. Eleanor’s research is focused on the practice of entrepreneurial networking and firm growth. She focuses on entrepreneurial diversity and her work on women’s, graduate, social and creative entrepreneurship is published in leading journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Human Relations and International Small Business Journal. Eleanor’s research has been funded by the ESRC and EPSRC and a range of private sector organisations and agencies including the Cabinet Office. She is Co-I of the ESRC-funded ProPEL Hub (Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning) - a major new initiative designed to support improvements in productivity through enhanced workplace practice and employee engagement that is also supported by CIPD. Eleanor is an inclusive entrepreneurial leader with more than 25years of experience of enhancing business growth. She is co-designer of the Growth Advantage Programme (GAP) - a leadership and growth programme for ambitious entrepreneurs. GAP was recently fully endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute and is one of only two UK leadership programmes to be designed and delivered by faculty and entrepreneurs. Complimenting her research and teaching interests, Eleanor sits on the Council of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABs), the Small Business Charter (SBC) Management Board, the People, Talent and Leadership Committee, ScaleUp Institute and is a trustee of the Beatson Cancer Charity.
Area of Expertise
I am an experienced entrepreneurship researcher and educator having worked in higher education for circa 25 years. I have worked with all types of clients including undergraduate students, post graduate taught and research students; doctoral researchers and small and medium sized firms at all stages: nascent, developing and growing.
Prize And Awards
- Best overall conference paper
- Recipient
- 11/11/2015
- Best paper in track (Social, Ethical, and Environmental)
- Recipient
- 11/11/2015
- Entrepreneurial Embedding: case study evidence from the creative industries
- Recipient
- 2012
- Emerald Literati Network Ourstanding Paper Award
- Recipient
- 2008
Publications
- The Gender Index 2025: Scotland Narrative
- Shaw Eleanor, Lall Saurabh, Sahasranamam Sreevas, Mwaura Samuel, Ates Aylin, Lassalle Paul
- The Gender Index 2025 (2025) (2025)
- Founding team entrepreneurial experience, external financing and social enterprise performance
- Sahasranamam Sreevas, Lall Saurabh, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Shaw Eleanor
- British Journal of Management Vol 35, pp. 519-536 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12726
- The Gender Index 2023
- Slater Aaron, Ates Aylin, Shaw Eleanor, Lassalle Paul, Mwaura Samuel
- (2023)
- Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs
- Yamamura S, Lassalle P, Shaw E
- Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Vol 34, pp. 828-851 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2022.2120086
- Trailing wives and constrained agency among women migrant entrepreneurs : an intersectional perspective
- Lassalle Paul, Shaw Eleanor
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Vol 45, pp. 1496-1521 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258721990331
- Structuring the alternative weddings entrepreneurial field in France
- Lassalle Paul, Shaw Eleanor
- Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management Societal Change and Transforming Fields (2021) (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003022510-14
Teaching
I am passionate about working with students to help them realise their entrepreneurial potential. I enjoy teaching entrepreneurial marketing which offers an alternative view on how small, entrepreneurial firms can engage with their customers often by initially discovering an innovation or product or service improvement. I lead the final year class on Issues and Trends in Entrepreneurship which explores key changes in the environment and discusses with students the implications of these for entrepreneurial firms. I also teach on various research methods classes particularly advising on qualitative methodologies and the design and analysis of case studies.
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the area of entrepreneurial capital, creative industries, entrepreneurial diversity and firm growth. I am interested in engaged research which is of value to teaching, engagement with small and entrepreneurial firms and relevant to informing the development of economic and social policy in the areas of enterprise, innovation and creativity. Most recently I have been researching entrepreneurial philanthropy: the active redistributin of wealth by entrepreneurs for socially and environmentally motivated purposes.
Professional Activities
- Northumbria University
- Visiting researcher
- 30/10/2018
- Brunel University
- Visiting researcher
- 19/9/2018
- Invited keynote talk
- Contributor
- 15/1/2016
- How to create an entrepreneurial university
- Invited speaker
- 12/11/2015
- Scottish Government (External organisation)
- Chair
- 23/1/2015
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (External organisation)
- Member
- 2014
Projects
- Fintech. Centre of Innovation in Financial Regulation (Innovation Accelerator)
- Cummins, Mark (Principal Investigator) Basu, Devraj (Co-investigator) Bowden, James (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- Scottish Tech Ecosystem Fund
- Wurth, Bernd (Principal Investigator) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Executive Education Masterclass: Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage
- Shaw, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Wilson, Juliette (Co-investigator)
- 19-Jan-2020 - 20-Jan-2020
- The PROPEL Hub - Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning
- Lindsay, Colin (Principal Investigator) Findlay, Patricia (Co-investigator) Loeffler, Elke (Co-investigator) Roy, Graeme (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
- Entrepreneurship Masterclass: Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage
- Shaw, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Ates, Aylin (Academic)
- Creating and sustaining a competitive advantage has become increasingly difficult in an ever-changing and dynamic environment. Businesses need to be adept at strategic thinking and strategic analysis and find ways to enhance impact, value and performance. This Masterclass taught approximately 25 business owners and entrepreneurs the tools and techniques to stay ahead of the game.
- 20-Jan-2019 - 19-Jan-2021
- Executive Entrepreneurship Masterclasses ? Lot 2 Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage Tender
- Shaw, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Chalmers, Dominic (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Professor
Eleanor
Shaw
Assoc Principal Ext Engage Partnerships
Strathclyde Business School
Email: eleanor.shaw@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4259