Inclusive Entrepreneurship Education and Training & Entrepreneurial Feminism

Deadline: November 16, 2025, 11:30 am

Date & Time

November 19, 2025
11:30 am–12:30 pm (EST)

Location

DMS 7170

Contact

Kathy Cunningham
cunningham@telfer.uottawa.ca

Deadline: November 16, 2025, 11:30 am

This seminar focuses on the challenges experienced by educators in developing inclusive entrepreneurship education and training (EET) programs. We will present two studies. The first is a large-scale Delphi study that validates an inventory of criteria for assessing EET programs. Entrepreneurship educators across 19 countries inform the research (Orser, Elliott, Elam, Shankar & Brush, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development). The second study is an editorial that explores the principles of entrepreneurial feminism in the context of EET (Orser & Woods, forthcoming, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship). Discussion will enable participants to consider how the ‘personal is academic’ and ways that the study findings inform teaching, research, and strategies to address resistance to diversity, equity and incision in the context of EET.

About the Speakers

Dr. Barbara Orser, Professor Emerita at Telfer School of Management is a recognized thought leader and champion of women, gender and entrepreneurship research. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed and industry publications, including in Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice; Small Business Economics and Journal of Small Business Management. She is a co-founder of the Inclusive EET Research Program, Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Group, and former Head of Delegation for Women20 Canada. She has received numerous honours, including the Women’s Executive Network ‘100 Most Powerful Women in Canada’, The International Alliance for Women ‘World of Difference Award’ and Telfer ‘Award of Excellence’.

Dr. Christine Woods holds the Theresa Gattung Chair in Women in Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Auckland. Kiwi born and bred, she has taught entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Māori Entrepreneurship. Part of the directing team for The ICEHOUSE (Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) ‘Business Growth’ and Owner Manager programmes, Christine is the recipient of New Zealand’s highest teaching honour, the ‘Ako Aotearoa New Zealand ‘Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence’. She is a Life Fellow, Clare Hall at Cambridge University.