The University of Nottingham’s Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is further expanding its expertise, thanks to the appointment of two Visiting Scholars, Maggie O’Carroll, founder and CEO of The Women’s Organisation, and Dr Maura McAdam, Senior Lecturer in Management at Queen’s University Belfast.
Maggie O’Carroll started The Women’s Organisation in 1996 with the aim to promote female enterprise policy and practice having identified it as a huge untapped entrepreneurial market for the UK. With Maggie leading its business development, The Women’s Organisation is now the largest and most successful dedicated Women’s Business Support Charity and Social Business in the UK. Maggie has a masters degree in Social Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and is Visiting Scholar at Simmons College in Boston, USA. In her new role as Visiting Enterprise Scholar at the Haydn Green Institute, Maggie will be contributing to teaching as well as acting in an advisory and mentoring role.
Dr Maura McAdam will be contributing to teaching of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes and will also mentor students during her role as Visiting Scholar at the Haydn Green Institute. As well as her Senior Lecturer post at Queen’s University, Maura is Visiting Scholar at the Arthur M. Blank Centre for Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston, USA. Maura is passionate about entrepreneurship education and in 2006, received a Queen’s Teaching Award for her work on innovative teaching practices.
Susan Marlow, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Haydn Green Institute said: “We are delighted that Dr Maura McAdam and Maggie O’Carroll are joining the Haydn Green Institute as Visiting Scholars. Between them they have a wealth of expertise in entrepreneurship given their engagement with research, policy and practice on a national and international basis. It is really exciting for our staff, students and business partners that they are willing to share their knowledge and experience with us – welcome Maura and Maggie.”
