Having supervised and jointly supervised doctoral students at Cranfield and Nottingham Business School am keen to develop a research programme on entrepreneurship with suitable students through the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and the Judge Institute at Cambridge.

In my capacity as member of the Board of the Institute of Small Business Affairs I have initiated a Doctoral-training programme. We are currently developing a database of Doctoral students and supervisors engaged in Entrepreneurship and small business research in the UK. This has arisen because I have recognised the acute shortage of talented people who are capable of teaching and researching in this field and the general lack of cohesion in the UK small business research community to raise the standards to internationally competitive levels.

In addition to doctoral supervision there is a steady stream of undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking projects in the small business area. For example e-commerce in SMEs.

Previous supervision included students on the Msc programme for Marketing and Product Management, at Silsoe, where students had to undertake projects, worth just under half the total credits. These assignments were undertaken for businesses. I have guided about 30 such marketing projects on:

Buyer behaviour, distribution channels, brand awareness, product life cycle, brand position of premium lagers, information needs for marketing decisions, search for niche markets in declining industries and so on for diverse companies in engineering, science and technology, food, animal feed, leisure, etc., I was responsible for two years to secure the projects from industry and led a successful marketing campaign enabling us to have a waiting list of projects from which students could choose.