Dr Katherine Parsons

Overview

I am currently employed as Lecturer of Management, Employment and Organization section at Cardiff Business School. I have a passion for supporting and encouraging responsible business and entrepreurship and inlcusive innovation and love to see the practical applications and policy implications of my research to drive real change.

My thesis sought to understand the conflicts and tensions experienced by founders as they collectively and relationally construct their sense of who they are (their entrepreneurial identity) and what they do (the entrepreneurial opportunity they are to pursue) during the very earliest stages of new venture creation. My work shines a light on an emerging empirical phenomena - the socially purposeful for-profit start-up which challenges the dicohotomous picture of commercial versus social enterprise presented in the literature, offering support for a continuum perspective of hybridity.

More broadly my research interests include social purpose/ purposeful business; social innovation; digital futures of work and identity at work. I am a qualitative researcher who particularly enjoys experimenting with novel approaches towards analysis and organisational ethnography.

Prior to joining academia, I worked operationally within leadership and management development in both the public and private sector.

I am currently co-module leader with Dr Lara Pecis on the 1st year undergraduate module Society and Economy.

PhD

MSc in Social Science Research Methods.

MSc in Entrepreneurial Practice.

Cipd Professional Development Scheme

PGCE (FE)

FHEA