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Level 1 - Open to 1st and 2nd year UG students LUBS1010 Understanding Social Enterprises – Semester 1 This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to explore how for-purpose social businesses find socially innovative and enterprising win-win solutions to local and global social and environmental challenges. It will help students to...
Level 2 – Open to 2nd and 3rd year UG students LUBS2080 New Enterprise Planning – Semester 1 This module introduces students to key theories and analysis tools relevant to the process of new enterprise planning, which students will subsequently use in the development and analysis of their own enterprise proposal. This module is approved as...
Level 3 – Open to 3rd year UG students as a discovery module LUBS3013 Enterprise Consultancy – Semester 1 This module aims to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for students to acquire and develop a deep understanding of how enterprises (including social and other 3rd sector organisations) combine business practices with effecting change, specifically the...
Second year BA Music with Enterprise student Marija talks about her experience of combining the study of music and enterprise and also learning about the music industry. She also discusses her experience of the music scene in Leeds. Taught by the School of Music and Leeds University Business School, this innovative programme will develop your...
In March 2020, Parliament launched the COVID-19 outbreak expert database. Over 5,000 experts responded. CEES PhD Researcher Sam Appleton contributed to this research study, one of forty contributors from the University of Leeds. On business and trade, experts highlighted concerns about: Supply chains and logistics Business support and at-risk industries Industry behaviour Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship In...
Researchers have been awarded funding of £290,000 to examine how high-growth entrepreneurial firms, which are critical to the success of the UK economy, are responding to the crisis. The grant is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) rapid response to Covid-19. The project is being...
Abstract In recent years, the ‘migration crisis’ in Europe has raised concerns about addressing the social and economic needs of refugees arriving in the UK from countries such as Syria. The BFURE project is interested not in the costs incurred by supporting these refugees, but in the skills and knowledge refugees have when they arrive...
“Two entrepreneurs, who started their first business as students with a grant from Leeds University, are now looking to extend their safe bus travel app to Yorkshire.” Yorkshire Post – 1st June 2020 A chat in a Leeds bar between two undergraduates led to the development of JumpIn, a taxi-booking and sharing mobile application for students. ...
Dr Isla Kapasi recently chaired the enterprise panel event titled “Failure as a learning tool”, discussing the topic of failure with a range of panel members including Fraser Allen (Allen Comms), Jonathan Straight and Steve Baker, Baker & Co Accountants and Sarah Lloyd (Year in Enterprise student and founder of the social enterprise Families Against...
The Enterprise Project’s Small Business Growth Module has given three postgraduate students experience of the working world and seen them hugely impress a local business. Dan Branston, Jesha Effendie and Daniel Aroesti are three master’s students studying MSc Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies (CEES). It was the LUBS5536M Small...