Ms Kiranjit Kaur

Key areas of research interests are in the field of Entrepreneurship, in particularly Family Business, Ethnic Minority/Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and Small Businesses/SMEs. Core teaching lies in the area of Business Research Methods across undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Having just ventured into teaching there is potential to diversify on to other modules and take up dissertation supervision too.

Family Business

Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and SMEs

General Management Theory

Business Research Methods

MSc International Business and Management (De Montfort University)

BA (Hons) Business and Management (De Montfort University)

Postgraduate: Research Methodology

2^nd Year Undergraduate: Business Research Issues and Analysis

Best Paper in “Family and Community Business” Track at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference, November 2015

Best Poster Award for “Ethnicity and Heterogeneity in Ethnic Minority Family Firms” poster at the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Conference hosted by Loughborough University London, May 2015

Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), from June 2016 to present

Academy of Management (AOM), from July 2016 to present

Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), from October 2015 to present

FERC 2017 in Asheville, USA (June, 2017)

AOM 2017 in Atlanta, USA (August, 2017)

Vershinina, N., Kaur, K., Woldesenbet, K. and Trehan, K. (2016). Breaking out or Breaking in? Exploring family dynamics in planning for succession. Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, California, 5-8th August. (Presented by K. Kaur and N. Vershinina) 

Kaur, K. (2016). Ethnicity and Heterogeneity in Ethnic Minority Family Firms (Poster). Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2-4th June. 

Kaur, K. (2016). Ethnicity and Heterogeneity in Ethnic Minority Family Firms (Poster). Entrepreneurship & Innovation Conference, Loughborough University London, England, 24-25^th May. (Best Poster Award)

Vershinina, N., Kaur, K., Woldesenbet, K. (2015). Understanding Stakeholder Relationships amongst Punjabi-Indian Family Firm Members. ISBE Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 11-12th November. (Presented by K. Kaur and N. Vershinina) (Best Paper in Track: Family and Community Business)