Dr Paul Ferri had a real ‘blast from the past’ when he gave his first lecture at Strathclyde after taking up the position of lecturer in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Having got his first degree from Strathclyde in 1978, Dr Ferri found himself teaching his first lecture in a room where he himself used to sit as a student for marketing lectures.
His route from student at Strathclyde to lecturer at Strathclyde has seen him run his own business in the professional audio-visual market for 27 years, and gain considerable academic teaching experience over the last five years at UWS as an Associate Lecturer, delivering entrepreneurship and business management modules, from a practitioner perspective, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Dr Ferri brings his considerable experience as an entrepreneur and small business owner to the Hunter Centre. His current research interests include investigating the entrepreneurship/ social capital nexus, enhancing entrepreneurial education, comparing business start-ups across regions in Scotland and exploring self-sustaining social enterprises.