Colette Henry

{{Short description|Irish social scientist}}

Professor Colette Henry, FRSA, FAcSS is an Irish social scientist and international scholar who is Head of the Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |title=Staff Member Detail |url=https://www.dkit.ie/staffdirectory/staff-member-detail.html |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=DkIT - Dundalk Institute of Technology |language=en}} She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the founding editor of The International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.

Education

Henry completed a B.A. in Spanish and Italian at Queen's University Belfast in 1985, an MBA in Management at the Open University in 1995, and a PhD in Entrepreneurship Education at Queen's University Belfast in 2000.{{cite web |title=Colette Henry |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-5695 |website=orcid.org |publisher=ORCID |access-date=22 May 2023}} In 2023, Henry was awarded a MA in Creative Writing from Queens University Belfast. https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2023/incredible-student-overcomes-illness-to-graduate-for-a-third-time-from-queens.html

Career and research

Henry is currently the Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology, and an adjunct professor of Business Strategy and Innovation at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.{{Cite web |title=Contact us |url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/griffith-business-school/departments/business-strategy-innovation/contact-us |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=www.griffith.edu.au |language=en}} In 2017, Henry was awarded the Sten K. Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA). The award is presented annually by the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden, recognising an individual who has contributed to the improvement of entrepreneurship education in academia in Europe. Henry was the first Irish recipient of the award.{{Cite web |title=The European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) Laureates |url=https://www.lusem.lu.se/european-entrepreneurship-education-award-eeea-laureates |language=en-GB}} In April 2018, she was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.{{cite web |title=Fifty-eight leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences |url=https://acss.org.uk/news/fifty-eight-leading-social-scientists-conferred-as-fellows-of-the-academy-of-social-sciences/ |website=Academy of Social Sciences |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415232412/https://acss.org.uk/news/fifty-eight-leading-social-scientists-conferred-as-fellows-of-the-academy-of-social-sciences/ |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |date=5 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}

She was previously an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the Norbrook Professor of Business and Enterprise at the Royal Veterinary College London, and President of the [https://isbe.org.uk/ Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship],{{Cite web |title=Professor Colette Henry |url=https://isbe.org.uk/fellows/professor-colette-henry/ |access-date=2023-03-08 |language=en-GB}} UK.

Henry is the founding editor of The International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE), which published its first issue in 2009 and was developed at Diana International Conferences held by The Diana Project, an organization founded in 1999 by a group of scholars focused on collaborative research related to women's entrepreneurship.{{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=John |last2=J. Gatewood |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Lewis |first3=Kate |title=A framework for assessing entrepreneurial outcomes: an international perspective |journal=International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship |date=4 March 2014 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=2–14 |doi=10.1108/IJGE-04-2013-0045}} {{ProQuest|1520636199}}{{cite web |title=Editorial Team |url=https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijge |website=www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com |publisher=International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship |access-date=21 May 2023 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Brush |first1=Candida G. |last2=Greene |first2=Patricia G. |last3=Welter |first3=Friederike |title=The Diana project: a legacy for research on gender in entrepreneurship |journal=International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship |date=16 January 2020 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=7–25 |doi=10.1108/IJGE-04-2019-0083|s2cid=213919074 |url=https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/215830/1/workingpaper-02-2020.pdf }} {{ProQuest|2381564354}} Henry was also the Founder and Chair{{Cite web |last=WEP |first=Global |title=Global WEP |url=https://globalwep.org/executive-team |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=Global WEP |language=en-GB}} of [https://globalwep.org/ Global WEP, Women's Entrepreneurship Policy Research].

Honours and awards

  • Co-leader, 7th Diana International Conference, 2014{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=The Diana International Research Institute / History |url=https://www.babson.edu/womens-leadership-institute/diana-international-research-institute/history/ |access-date=22 May 2023 |website=Babson College |publisher=Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership |language=en}}
  • European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) from the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship at Lund University, 2017{{cite book |editor1-last=Fayolle |editor1-first=Alain |title=A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education |date=2018 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=9781786432919 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b81eDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Colette+Henry%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA121 |access-date=22 May 2023 |pages=116, 121–122}}{{Cite web |title=EEEA laureates |url=https://lusem.lu.se/entrepreneur/external-relations/laureates |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=Lund University School of Economics and Management |language=en}}
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2018{{Cite web |last=Sciences |first=Academy of Social |title=Fellows |url=https://acss.org.uk/fellows |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=Academy of Social Sciences |language=en-GB}}

Selected publications

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Henry |editor1-first=Colette |title=Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: An International Perspective |date=2007 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |location=Cheltenham, UK |isbn=9781845426101}}Reviews of Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: An International Perspective
  • {{cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=Gilbert |title=BOOK REVIEW: "Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industry: An International Perspective", Edited by Colette Henry |journal=Journal of Enterprising Culture |date=September 2009 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=381–382 |doi=10.1142/S0218495809000357|via=Business Source Complete}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Rylander |first1=David |title=Entrepreneurship in the creative industries: An international perspective – Edited by Colette Henry. |journal=Papers in Regional Science |date=2010 |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=224–226 |doi=10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00276.x |issn=1056-8190|via=Business Source Complete}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Mellander |first1=Charlotta |title=Book review: Colette Henry(ed.), Entrepreneurship in the creative industries: An international perspective. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, US: Edward Elgar, 2007. 224 pp: 9781845426101, £59.95 (hbk) |journal=International Small Business Journal |date=February 2010 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=127–128 |doi=10.1177/02662426100280010708|s2cid=143417117 }}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Henry |editor1-first=Colette |editor2-last=McElwee |editor2-first=Gerard |title=Exploring Rural Enterprise: New perspectives on research, policy & practice |date=2014 |publisher=Emerald Publishing |location=Bingley |isbn=9781784411121 |edition=First}}{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Anne MJ |title=Colette Henry (author/ed.) and Gerard McElwee (ed.), Exploring rural enterprise: New perspective on research and policy & practice. |journal=Local Economy |date=August 2016 |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=660–662 |doi=10.1177/0269094216653591|s2cid=148403561 }}
  • {{Cite web |title=Entrepreneurship Policies through a Gender Lens {{!}} en {{!}} OECD |url=https://www.oecd.org/industry/entrepreneurship-policies-through-the-gender-lens-71c8f9c9-en.htm |access-date=2023-03-08 |year=2021 |first=C. |last=Henry |website=www.oecd.org}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Henry |first=Colette |date=2021 |title=Is there a Role for Entrepreneurship Education in Veterinary Medicine? A UK Study |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25151274211040423 |journal=Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=161–186 |doi=10.1177/25151274211040423 |s2cid=239690256 |issn=2515-1274}}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Henry |first1=Colette |last2=Coleman |first2=Susan |last3=Orser |first3=Barbara |last4=Foss |first4=Lene |date=2022-07-01 |title=Women's Entrepreneurship Policy and Access to Financial Capital in Different Countries: An Institutional Perspective |journal=Entrepreneurship Research Journal |language=en |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=227–262 |doi=10.1515/erj-2022-0234 |s2cid=250472885 |issn=2157-5665|doi-access=free |hdl=10072/421296 |hdl-access=free }}
  • {{Cite book|last1=Henry |first1=C. |last2=Coleman |first2=S. |last3=Lewis |first3=V. |url=https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781800374652/9781800374652.xml |title=Women's Entrepreneurship Policy: A Global Perspective |date=2023-01-17 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-80037-465-2}}

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