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Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy

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About the Department

As a department, we deliver outstanding work in the fields of entrepreneurship, strategic management, leadership and family business. Our strengths are drawn from close alignment of research, education and business support in these key academic fields and from the continuous 'real world' feedback received through interaction with the business community. This ensures that our activities are always up to date, focused and precisely matched to the needs of students, businesses and the wider community. A large number of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs), who regularly mentor and support our students, provide real-life cases to inform learning

We also engage regularly with a wide range of businesses from small and medium enterprises to the largest multinationals. Our programmes are therefore based on cutting-edge research and deep engagement with management practices.

Teaching & Research

Within this department, we offer a range of study options at undergraduate, Masters and PhD level along with pioneering research and business partnerships that inform all aspects of our teaching.

  • Undergraduate

    Develop your entrepreneurial skills with our multi-dimensional undergraduate programmes, paving the way for a successful career or new business venture.

  • Masters

    Our Masters programmes will help you gain the skills, characteristics and knowledge to drive innovation in an organisation or start your own company.

  • PhD

    Our PhD community is an integral part of the departmental research community and we recruit the finest calibre PhD students from across the world.

  • Research

    As a department, we invest heavily in a research-related infrastructure and aim to create an environment which is supportive and productive, allowing ideas to flourish.

Engaging with Business

With 20 years of experience of working with SMEs, Lancaster University can set an example for other HE Institutions of how to be involved in regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.

In this article for 54 Degrees, Professor Sarah Jack looks back at two decades of engagement.

A university at the hear of the region

Our Expertise

Entrepreneurship

Our mission is to research and teach entrepreneurship in a useful way. We know that entrepreneurship is a change maker, but understand it works in different ways. Entrepreneurship as much more than new small businesses, it is the means for solving social and economic problems and is informed by our research.

The quality of our research is reflected in our outstanding and long-established reputation. Our work is informed by our close and very live connections to entrepreneurs, including our network of more than 50 Entrepreneurs in Residence at LUMS. They share their experiences with staff and students to ensure that our work is grounded in reality. Through our research, we know how entrepreneurship creates socio-economic opportunities and we understand how individuals, companies and communities can benefit from informed entrepreneurship. We appreciate the processes and how context matters in the practice of entrepreneurship, so we see entrepreneurship not just as an economic function, but one that is embedded in how people live their lives. To find out more, please visit our research page.

Entrepreneurship

Strategic Management

The Strategic Management research group is an internationally recognised team of scholars. The group is deliberately pluralist, both methodologically and theoretically, and addresses some of the most fundamental challenges faced by organisations today. Read about our current research.

Strategy

Leadership

The department is host to the Academy for Gender Work and Leadership, a research group connecting scholars and developing collaborative networks with policy-makers and practitioners through ground-breaking and impactful research. Our academics are engaged in a wide range of diverse projects from examining how media affects the way we think about leaders, to gender diversity in the police.

Leadership

Latest News

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Businesses plan for sustainable futures in Cumbria

More than 30 companies from across Cumbria came together for a Lancaster University event to do their part to address environmental and societal challenges.
Attendees at the Entrepreneurs in Residence conference sit in a modern lecture theatre, on rows of green material seating

Businesses and researchers mutually benefit from Lancaster conference

Business leaders and academic experts shared expertise and insights at the first LUMS Entrepreneurs in Residence Conference.
A group of early career researchers sat at desks and stood in front of a whiteboard in a seminar room as part of a research grant writing event.

Lancaster project empowers Early Career Researchers in sustainable development bids

Early career researchers gained valuable insight into developing grant proposals for sustainable development projects through a Lancaster University Management School initiative.
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Management School scholar rewarded for work on student experience

Dr Radka Newton (Entrepreneurship and Strategy) was awarded a Lancaster Partnership Education Conference Prize for her work giving students a bigger say in how their education is shaped.
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LUMS family business researcher recognised with Fellowship

Dr Bingbing Ge is one of a select group of global scholars to be awarded the annual Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship.
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Next generation of entrepreneurs go head to head in 100-Day Challenge

Around 80 students from six schools across the country battled it out in the final stage of Lancaster University Management School’s 100-Day Entrepreneurship Challenge last week.

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Events

The Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy runs a series of events throughout the year. For past events, please visit our Events Archive.