Entrepreneurship
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council Digital Good Network
Duration: February 2025 - July 2025
Digital technology has broadened the horizon for social enterprises (e.g. WakaWaka) to use digital crowdfunding platforms (e.g. Kickstarter and Crowdfunder) to pool resources to build resilient and sustainable communities. However, digital crowdfunding success rates remain low, and support is needed for adopting digital technology and making a success of digital crowdfunding. Disparity exists in access to digital crowdfunding between the technology-rich Global North, the world’s developed countries, and the digitally-divided Global South, the world’s developing countries. Their different institutional environment must be considered to bridge the North-South divide and address digital inequality. We aim to address this issue through investigating the critical success factors of digital crowdfunding, drawing on interdisciplinary insights from entrepreneurship, computer science and finance. By investigating a combination of factors related to social entrepreneurs as crowdfunders, their project quality, their project websites, and their institutional environment in the Global North and the Global South, we will develop best practices for digital crowdfunding platforms.
Funder: Centre for entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Duration: -
Funder: Brunel Partners Academic Centre for Health Sciences
Duration: May 2024 - July 2024
Plexaa has developed its first product, Bloom43 – a wearable device that delivers supraphysiological preconditioning to the skin to prevent wound healing complications for women undergoing breast cancer surgery. This pilot project focuses on a market research to expand the product's reach and capability.
Funder: Brunel Partners Academic Centre for Health Sciences
Duration: January 2024 - May 2024
As the global population ages, the demand for effective healthcare solutions for elderly individuals is increasing. This research investigates the benefits and satisfaction derived from health monitoring technologies in enhancing the well-being of elderly patients. Leveraging advancements in Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI), smart technologies enable continuous monitoring of vital signs and facilitate timely medical interventions. They empower seniors to autonomously manage their health while providing real-time data to caregivers and healthcare providers. The study employs a cross-sectional survey design conducted in London, utilising a structured questionnaire to assess perceptions of remote health monitoring services among 95 participants. Data analysis reveals strong support for the benefits of regular monitoring in managing health and reducing anxiety. High satisfaction levels with service delivery underscore the transformative potential of these technologies in elderly care, despite challenges related to data security and cost preferences for wearable devices.
Funder: British Council
Duration: November 2023 - December 2024
HE Connects: UK – Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation
Funder: Brunel University of London and industry match funding
Duration: September 2023 - February 2024
This project aims to explore the current trends in the UK entrepreneurial philanthropy sector, and the factors (especially on trust, distrust and (re-)building trust) that influence the effective adoption of digital technology among small and medium-sized organisations in the philanthropy sector (especially charities).
Funder: Korea National Research Foundation
Duration: June 2023 - May 2026
Funder: BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
Duration: April 2023 - September 2024
Crowdfunding provides an alternative financing solution for social entrepreneurship for public benefit, and a platform for social entrepreneurs to garner community support. However, crowdfunding campaigns often fail to meet their targets. This prompts us to ask a pertinent question: how do serial social entrepreneurs learn from their prior crowdfunding experience? This project proposes a two-stage mixed methods study to address this question. First, we collect secondary, quantitative data on crowdfunding campaigns for public benefit on Kickstarter to examine to what extent serial social entrepreneurs learn from their prior crowdfunding experience to improve subsequent fundraising performance. Second, we collect primary, qualitative interview data from 20 participants who have taken part in Stage One, to study what and how serial social entrepreneurs learn from their prior crowdfunding campaigns. Our project findings will uncover the underlying process of entrepreneurial learning in crowdfunding campaigns and provide practical solutions for social entrepreneurs and crowdfunding policymakers. Principal investigator: Dr Xiangming Tao; Co-investigator: Professor Catherine Wang
Funder: National Institute of Health and Care Research
Duration: October 2022 - February 2023
Funder: International Telecommunication Union
Duration: May 2022 - October 2023
The overall objective of the study is to create an understanding of the dynamics of the telemedicine ecosystem and proffer recommendations to facilitate the sustainable adoption of telemedicine in SSA.
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Techne Training & Development Days 2021-22; PI: Dr Monomita Nandy (BBS)
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: February 2022 - January 2025
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: February 2022 - July 2023
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: February 2022 - July 2023
Funder: University Of Leeds, Leeds Challenge Fund
Duration: February 2022 - August 2022
Principle investigator: Professor Yingqi Wei, Co-Investigator: Professor Catherine Wang; Co-Investigator: Dr Gideon Azumah; Co-Investigator: Professor Jue Wang
Funder: British Academy
Duration: January 2022 - December 2022
This report presents the findings of an in-depth, qualitative study of digital poverty from the perspectives of two hyperlocal communities in the UK seaside town of Margate. Specifically, the study examined members of the Roma and Creative Diaspora.
Funder: Spread Your Wings
Duration: January 2022 - July 2022
To develop and test the criteria for a serious game that will help young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds and low education attainment to overcome their fears about starting their own business.
Funder: British Council
Duration: January 2022 - December 2022
The study aims to develop an understanding of the needs of and solution to digital finance for Egyptian single mothers. Through a collaborative partnership among UK and Egyptian scholars and practitioners the study aims to analyse the problems and challenges of Egyptian single mothers and how inclusive digital finance can address them. The study will engage with a range of different stakeholders including single mothers, bank managers, policy makers and NGO workers to obtain different perspectives that can feed into the development of appropriate business and policy implications for inclusive digital finance in Egypt.
Funder: UKRI – BBSRC
Duration: August 2020 - August 2022
Funder: Medical Research Council
Duration: April 2020 - March 2022
Funder: Brunel Business School, Brunel University London
Duration: January 2020 - July 2020
Funder: Research Development Fund, Brunel University London
Duration: January 2020 - January 2022
Funder: UK-India Education and Research Initiative
Duration: October 2019 - February 2021
Funder: BAM-ANZAM Collaborative Research Award Scheme 2019
Duration: September 2019 - December 2020
Funder: British Academy of Management
Duration: September 2019 - December 2020
Funder: Fapesp-Brunel Funded Partnership
Duration: September 2019 - March 2020
Joint project on marginalised theatre practices
Funder: National Institute for Health Research
Duration: -
Funder: HoD Pump Priming
Duration: -
Funder: Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Duration: -
Funder: Brunel_Research Accelerator in Developing Countries Grant
Duration: -
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Duration: October 2018 - March 2023
Funder: European Commission
Duration: July 2018 - December 2021
Funder: Brunel Business School
Duration: March 2018 - July 2018
Funder: British Academy
Duration: -
one day conference on digitalisation and sustainable growth of business
Funder: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Research Centre , Brunel University
Duration: February 2018 - July 2018
Funder: UK-India Education and Research Initiative
Duration: January 2018 - January 2021