I'm an Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the multi-award-winning Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol (AGCAS Academic Employability 2025, CATE 2019, NEEA 2018, 2021, Vice-Chancellor’s Award 2017). I'm formerly Head of Employability and Enterprise at Bath Spa University, Head of Enterprise Education at the University of Bristol, and a former Chairman and Director of Enterprise Educators UK (www.enterprise.ac.uk). I'm also a Fellow of the HEA, the RSA, and an Honorary Fellow of EEUK. 

I'm also an independent Town Councillor in Corsham, Witshire.

I have won awards for designing and delivering a leadership development bootcamp (Insight into Management, University of Bristol Teaching Award, 2008), founding a student business accelerator (Basecamp, SETSquared Best Enterprise Initiative 2013), and overhauling and delivering an entrepreneurship bootcamp (Spark, SETSquared Best Enterprise Initiative 2014).