Dr Ian Vickers

Senior Research Fellow

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research

  • Location London

Research activities

  • Small Business, innovation andeconomic development
  • Social enterprise and social innovation
  • Sustainability and the low carboneconomy
  • Regulatory policy and enterprise
  • ‘Good work’ and small firms
  • Democratic ownership and governance

    • Current Teaching

    Guestlecture contributions to:

  • Businessand Enterprise for Sustainable Prosperity (PRS4580) for MSc in Sustainable andEnvironmental Management
  •  SmallBusiness Management & Development (MGT 3017)
  •  Researchtraining for PhD students

    • Previously module leader for:

  •  Enterprise and Small Business (MGT3180)
  • Business Start-Up Simulation (MGT2000) 

    • PhD Supervision - completions: 

  • Bianca Stumbitz(2013) Social Entrepreneurship Shaped by the Life Course: A Case Study ofOlder Social Entrepreneurs

  • Abdullah Al Faruq (2015) Understanding Social Enterprise Growth: TheCase of Bangladesh

  • Ricardo Raimundo (2016) Learning Processes in High Growth SMEs: thePortuguese Case

  • Maria IsabelIrurita (2019) The Emergence of Social Innovation within the Social Economy: Thecase of social enterprises in England

  • Lisa Anne Borley (2022) Regulation as an Opportunity for Learning and Small Business Development: The case ofEnvironmental Health Inspections and Good Learning Behaviours  

    • Biography

    Ian is aSenior Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment andDevelopment Research (CEEDR) and with the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of SustainableProsperity (CUSP). He has nearly 30 years’ experience of researching sustainableeconomic development policy, small business, social enterprise and innovation. He has authored many academic papers in journals such as British Journal of Management, ResearchPolicy, InternationalSmall Business Journal, Environment and PlanningC, Policy Studies and Business Strategy and the Environment.His research interests relate to sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation;business sustainability and supportive ecosystems; and alternative businessmodels for inclusive and sustainable growth. 

    Projects which he has led (orco-led) include SMEs in a Low Carbon Economy and an evaluation of the RegionalGrowth Fund – both for Department for Business, Energy & IndustrialStrategy; Cities, the Social Economy and InclusiveGrowth for Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Projects for UKRI include RethinkingFashion Design Entrepreneurship: Fostering Sustainable Practices  and Social Enterprise as a Catalyst for Sustainable and Healthy Local Food Systems.

    Publications

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