Innovation and Entrepreneurship PhD

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship comprises a group of academic staff with research interests in two related areas: design innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning both commercial and social sectors. This includes research wholly contained within one of these disciplines or bridging both subjects.<br/><br/>The centre has a reputation for a collaborative and participatory approach to teaching and research, ensuring impact for its stakeholders.<br/><br/>The profile of our team, most of whom are both practitioners and scholars, helps to ensure continual collaboration between academic and non-academic applied settings. We, therefore, welcome and encourage students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Students may join directly from university studies or be experienced professionals, for example, established entrepreneurs or designers.<br/><br/>Our research areas include:<br/><br/>Entrepreneurship<br/><br/><br/>- Strategy<br/><br/><br/>- Entrepreneurial behaviours<br/><br/><br/>- Mergers and acquisitions<br/><br/><br/>- Entrepreneurship education<br/><br/><br/>- Social justice<br/><br/><br/>- Innovation leadership and culture<br/><br/><br/>- Enterprise education<br/><br/><br/>- Design thinking<br/><br/><br/>- Service design<br/><br/><br/>- Wicked problems<br/><br/><br/>- Social innovation<br/><br/><br/>- Interdisciplinary partnerships<br/><br/><br/>- Drivers of company performance<br/><br/><br/>Design innovation<br/><br/><br/>- Design for sustainability<br/><br/><br/>- Design<br/><br/><br/>- Consumer behaviour<br/><br/><br/>- Design for policy<br/><br/><br/>- Feminist design<br/><br/><br/>- Futures and scenarios<br/><br/><br/>- Human-centred design / prototyping<br/><br/><br/>- UX/interface design / human-computer interaction<br/><br/><br/>- Ethics, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies and AI<br/><br/><br/>- Design for social innovation<br/><br/><br/>- Advertising<br/><br/><br/>- Nature-centred design<br/><br/><br/>For more information visit the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/innovation/