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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 鈥淐ultivating entrepreneurship for women leaving the criminal justice system.鈥� 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鈥檚 enterprise, Norin was appointed as an Independent Government Advisor to the Scottish Government鈥檚 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鈥檚 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
- , , Knox Stephen
- International Small Business Journal (2026)
- Martin Graeme, Knox Stephen,
- British Journal of Management Vol 37 (2026)
- (2025)
- How to Scale Engagement and Impact in Universities (2025) (2025)
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- Academy of Management Proceedings Vol 2025 (2025)
- Knox Stephen,
- Innovations in Innovation Policy (2025) (2025)
Professional Activities
- Recipient
- 14/8/2024
- Recipient
- 2023
Projects
- 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 糖心视频 by exploring the challenges and barriers they face when juggling their caring responsibilities and developing their careers within the institution.
Funded by the 糖心视频's Institutional Funding for Research Culture Award, Cultures of Collaborative Research (Wellcome Trust). - 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Arshed, Norin (Principal Investigator)
- The aim of the project is to show that entrepreneurship can help overcome economic and social barriers for these women building an entrepreneurial ecosystem for and with them. The project will explore women who are in abusive relationships and work with them to understand what entrepreneurial skills they require, how these can be delivered and when the timing is right for them to commit to their learning. In turn allowing them to overcome social and financial barriers and support them to reintegrate into their communities.
- 08-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2026
- Arshed, Norin (Principal Investigator)
- 06-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Arshed, Norin (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator)
- Scottish Universities Insight Institute June 2023 拢20000
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Arshed, Norin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
Contact
Professor
Norin
Arshed
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Email: n.arshed@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted