Dr Eleanor Shaw (Marketing) has a number of speaking dates at conferences this summer. She has been invited to speak at the 2010 Research Colloquium on Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, Oxford, on June 22. The title of her presentation is 'Investigating entrepreneurial philanthropists and their involvement in giving and social enterprise'.
Also, together with colleagues at Cass and Edinburgh Business Schools, she has had a proposal for a panel session at this year's VSSN/NCVO conference - Researching the Voluntary Sector - accepted. The panel presentation at the September conference is Dr Eleanor Shawcalled 'Dimensions of giving - from 'going it alone' to the embedding of giving and philanthropy within social structures'. The paper Dr Shaw will present is entitled, 'How wealthy entrepreneurs enter the global philanthropic community'. The panel has been developed by Dr Shaw and colleagues Professor Cathy Pharoah and Tom McKenzie of Cass Business School, Dr Tobias Jung, Edinburgh Business School, Professor Jenny Harrow, Cass, and Professor Stephen Osborne, Edinburgh. The conference is to take place at the University of Leeds, and is the primary UK conference for the voluntary sector research community, bringing together over 120 academics, practitioners and policy makers with a shared interest in the voluntary sector and voluntary action.
The Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) will hold its inaugural conference on June 18 in London at Cass Business School, and Dr Shaw is speaking on 'New Research on Entrepreneurial Philanthropy'. Jillian Gordon from the Hunter Centre will also lead a workshop session in the afternoon on 'The Practice of Entrepreneurial Philanthropy'. This is the inaugural conference of the UK-wide CGAP of which Strathclyde Business School is a key partner.