School of Entrepreneurship & Business
School Staff
Dr Madhumita Banerjee
[Lecturer in Marketing]
Madhumita Banerjee is a Lecturer in Marketing and Programme Director for MSc in International Marketing and Entrepreneurship and BSc Marketing and Innovation. She gained her PhD from the Department of Marketing, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, UK.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328392
e: mbaner@essex.ac.uk
Sujun Fieldhouse
[Research and Development Officer]
Sujun is the Research and Development Officer at SEB. Her responsibilities include project application & management, research, conference organisation, doctoral student support, business outreach and development activities.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328389
e: zhangs@essex.ac.uk
Patrick Gallagher
[School Administrator]
Patrick Gallagher joined the School in September 2006. Previously he has worked in academic administration at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust dealing with systems administration and programme administration for HE programmes in Psychotherapy.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328388
e: pmgall@essex.ac.uk
Karon Galvin
[PA to Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation & Admin Assistant]
Karon Galvin joined the School in October 2007. Previously she has worked in several schools; Shoeburyness High School on the office admin side and Chalkwell Hall Infants in the classroom.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328385
e: kgalvin@essex.ac.uk
Dr William Gleave
[Lecturer in Business and Regional Development]
Bill Gleave joined the school in July 2006. Prior to this he was a lecturer in geography at Canterbury College while also working on his PhD in economic geography at Canterbury Christ Church University where he also undertook teaching responsibilities.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328394
e: wgleave@essex.ac.uk
Dr Jun Li
[Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation]
Jun Li is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and is the Director of Undergraduate and PhD Programmes. He previously held posts at University of Bedfordshire Business School, University of Central England Business School, and The Chinese Academy of Sciences.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328391
e: junli@essex.ac.uk
Dr Li Ying Meng
[Teaching Fellow in Work Based Learning and Professional and Executive Education]
Li Ying Meng joined the school in September 2008. Prior to this she lectured in knowledge management, and worked as a Senior Researcher at Kingston University, approved trainer in negotiation skills to blue-chip international companies, Operations Manager of an international commercial company, and Research Assistant at Cranfield University.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328395
e: lymeng@essex.ac.uk
Prof Jay Mitra
[Associate Director, International Development, Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, &
Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship Research]
Jay Mitra is the Founding Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at the University of Essex, and Head of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, at the University of Essex, Southend, UK, having set it up in 2005.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328390
e: jmitra@essex.ac.uk
Dr Manuela Nocker
[Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Innovation]
Manuela Nocker joined the School in September 2006. She holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from the London School of Economics and has been educated at the University of Padova/Italy and at the University of Exeter, UK.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328397
e: mnocker@essex.ac.uk
Dr Svetlana Warhurst
[Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship]
Svetlana Warhurst completed her Doctoral Research at the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business Group, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK. She has been educated in Belarus and the UK, and joined the school in 2006.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328393
e: warhurst@essex.ac.uk
Peng Wu
[Weigao China Research Group Manager]
Before studying in the UK Peng Wu worked in one of China’s largest medical company in Beijing, Shanghai, and Weihai as a Research and Development Project Manager. He joined the school in 2007.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328398
e: pwu@essex.ac.uk
Liqian Yang
[Weigao China, Business Administration and Marketing Officer]
Liqian joined the School as Business Administration and Marketing Officer for the Weigao China Research Group in April 2008. Her major responsibilities relate to the development of Weigao China Research Group assisting Wu Peng.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328398
e: lqyang@essex.ac.uk
Dr Ping Zheng
[Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Entrepreneurship]
Ping Zheng received her PhD from University of Kent in May 2007. She joined the school in 2006.
t: +44 (0) 1702 328399
e: pingzh@essex.ac.uk