Doctor Suzanne Mawson
Reader
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 29/5/2025
- Recipient
- 2/2024
- Recipient
- 2/2023
- Recipient
- 17/11/2022
- Recipient
- 11/2/2022
Publications
- Spigel Ben, Ramli Kautsar, Prokop Daniel, , Kitagawa Fumi, Vorley Tim, Gherhes Chris, Campopiano Giovanna
- The Journal of Technology Transfer (2026)
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- Strategic Pivot of Artificial Intelligence (2026) (2026)
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Research Interests
My area of expertise is broadly entrepreneurship, specifically business development and growth in the context of young ventures and SMEs. Much of my work to date has focused on high growth/scale-up entrepreneurship, including the nature and processes of growth in these firms, their support requirements (financial and otherwise) and the wider public policy context and support mechanisms designed for high growth firms/scale-ups (high growth entrepreneurship policy). I am also interested in wider issues related to business development and growth including creativity; entrepreneurial thinking and mindset; the role of entrepreneurial financing; the effect of changes in ownership structure and business models; business accelerator programming, as well as entrepreneurship education for different audiences.
Professional Activities
- Contributor
- 19/3/2026
- Speaker
- 25/7/2025
- Speaker
- 21/5/2025
- Speaker
- 19/2/2025
- Speaker
- 18/2/2025
- Visiting researcher
- 16/2/2025
Projects
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Casulli, Lucrezia (Principal Investigator) Achlada, Yolanda (Post Grad Student) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Smith, Marisa (Co-investigator) Taylor, Helen (Co-investigator)
- A series of events involving multiple stakeholders to promote neurodiverse needs in engaging with entrepreneurial activity
- 06-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Casulli, Lucrezia (Principal Investigator) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator)
- SBS recognises the increasing need to ensure accessibility and inclusion within its teaching and learning activity, particularly with regard to neurodiversity. Neurodiversity refers to the different ways a person鈥檚 brain processes information and it is thus central to learning. Neurodivergent brains are found in autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of non-neurotypical information processing.
It is estimated that up to 20% of students may be neurodiverse, including those without a formal diagnosis. To date, however, limited evidence has been collated as to how SBS specific Teaching and Learning (T&L) activities can be made neuro-inclusive.
This project aims to:
1. Identify neurodivergent learning needs in the T&L activities specific to SBS Programmes;
2. Identify barriers to neurodivergent learning, including setting-specific barriers (part of the T&L activities of SBS) and process-specific barriers (timings, breaks, interactions required, etc.);
3. Provide 鈥渂est practice鈥 on context and processes involved in SBS Programme T&L activities (including the range of formats that learning materials should be made available in - e.g. visual, text, audio, etc. - to ALL students, regardless of formal diagnosis;
4. Provide 鈥渂est practice鈥 in relation to assessment formats and contents for neuro-inclusivity, regardless of formal diagnosis;
5. Raise awareness of the needs of neurodiverse students with the T&L Directors of all SBS departments, with a view for them to implement 鈥渂est practice鈥 in their respective departments. - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Mawson, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Simmons, Emilee Lauran (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Wurth, Bernd (Principal Investigator) Mawson, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Shaw, Eleanor (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Doctor
Suzanne
Mawson
Reader
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Email: s.mawson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6199