Case Studies

  Embracing the opportunity to support start-ups:  Nina found out about the Enterprise Ambassador opportunities within the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (CEES) while taking...

With the support of the enterprise community, Spark and the wider CEES team, Michail Marinakis developed his idea 'recuppa' and secured a prestigious West Yorkshire...

 Medical student Kate Gerrard chose an MSc Enterprise and Entrepreneurship so she could explore a different field of study to add variety to her studies....

After 21 years building, scaling and exiting businesses, Leeds-based entrepreneur Jonathan Straight became an Enterprise Ambassador. Over the past 10 years he has shared his...

Jasmine Caddies enhanced her Hull York medical school degree with a Masters in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University of Leeds. Here, she won a...

A Fine Arts with History of Art student, Alex Neish, has discovered enterprise opportunities through the HELIX student innovation space. He secured a Spark scholarship...

Claire Morley-Jones of HR180 has been an enterprise ambassador for almost a decade, supporting the growth of the programme as well as inspiring students to...

Clarena Amatha is a Chevening Scholar on CEES’s Master of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship programme as part of a highly competitive international scholarship. Here in Leeds, Clarena is gaining invaluable enterprise knowledge and experience from the CEES team to help develop her business venture in her home community.  

Undergraduate Enam Ruf found combining his degree in medicine with a year studying enterprise at Leeds gave him a unique perspective on how to apply an entrepreneurial mindset to practising medicine. 

President of the Entrepreneurs Society Michael Mberi explains how students have chance to combine academic study with enterprise interests to develop skills and improve employability.