Colette Henry

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.^[1] 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.^[2] In 2023, Henry was awarded a MA in Creative Writing from Queens University Belfast. ^[3]

Career and research

Henry is currently the Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology,^[1] and an adjunct professor of Business Strategy and Innovation at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.^[4] 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.^[5] In April 2018, she was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.^[6]

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 Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship,^[7] 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.^[8][9][10] Henry was also the Founder and Chair^[11] of Global WEP, Women's Entrepreneurship Policy Research.

Honours and awards

• Co-leader, 7th Diana International Conference, 2014^[12]
• European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) from the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship at Lund University, 2017^[13][14]
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2018^[15]

Selected publications

• Henry, Colette, ed. (2007). Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: An International Perspective. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781845426101.^[16]
• Henry, Colette; McElwee, Gerard, eds. (2014). Exploring Rural Enterprise: New perspectives on research, policy & practice (First ed.). Bingley: Emerald Publishing. ISBN 9781784411121.^[17]
• Henry, C. (2021). "Entrepreneurship Policies through a Gender Lens | en | OECD". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
• Henry, Colette (2021). "Is there a Role for Entrepreneurship Education in Veterinary Medicine? A UK Study". Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. 6 (1): 161–186. doi:10.1177/25151274211040423. ISSN 2515-1274. S2CID 239690256.
• Henry, Colette; Coleman, Susan; Orser, Barbara; Foss, Lene (2022-07-01). "Women's Entrepreneurship Policy and Access to Financial Capital in Different Countries: An Institutional Perspective". Entrepreneurship Research Journal. 12 (3): 227–262. doi:10.1515/erj-2022-0234. hdl:10072/421296. ISSN 2157-5665. S2CID 250472885.
• Henry, C.; Coleman, S.; Lewis, V. (2023-01-17). Women's Entrepreneurship Policy: A Global Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-80037-465-2.

References

1. "Staff Member Detail". DkIT - Dundalk Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
2. "Colette Henry". orcid.org. ORCID. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
3. https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2023/incredible-student-overcomes-illness-to-graduate-for-a-third-time-from-queens.html
4. "Contact us". www.griffith.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
5. "The European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) Laureates".
6. "Fifty-eight leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. 5 April 2018. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021.
7. "Professor Colette Henry". Retrieved 2023-03-08.
8. Watson, John; J. Gatewood, Elizabeth; Lewis, Kate (4 March 2014). "A framework for assessing entrepreneurial outcomes: an international perspective". International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. 6 (1): 2–14. doi:10.1108/IJGE-04-2013-0045. ProQuest 1520636199
9. "Editorial Team". www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
10. Brush, Candida G.; Greene, Patricia G.; Welter, Friederike (16 January 2020). "The Diana project: a legacy for research on gender in entrepreneurship" (PDF). International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. 12 (1): 7–25. doi:10.1108/IJGE-04-2019-0083. S2CID 213919074. ProQuest 2381564354
11. WEP, Global. "Global WEP". Global WEP. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
12. "The Diana International Research Institute / History". Babson College. Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
13. Fayolle, Alain, ed. (2018). A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 116, 121–122. ISBN 9781786432919. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
14. "EEEA laureates". Lund University School of Economics and Management. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
15. Sciences, Academy of Social. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
16. Reviews of Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: An International Perspective
    • Tan, Gilbert (September 2009). "BOOK REVIEW: "Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industry: An International Perspective", Edited by Colette Henry". Journal of Enterprising Culture. 17 (3): 381–382. doi:10.1142/S0218495809000357 – via Business Source Complete.
    • Rylander, David (2010). "Entrepreneurship in the creative industries: An international perspective – Edited by Colette Henry". Papers in Regional Science. 89 (1): 224–226. doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00276.x. ISSN 1056-8190 – via Business Source Complete.
    • Mellander, Charlotta (February 2010). "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)". International Small Business Journal. 28 (1): 127–128. doi:10.1177/02662426100280010708. S2CID 143417117.
17. Smith, Anne MJ (August 2016). "Colette Henry (author/ed.) and Gerard McElwee (ed.), Exploring rural enterprise: New perspective on research and policy & practice". Local Economy. 31 (5): 660–662. doi:10.1177/0269094216653591. S2CID 148403561.