Clarena Amatha is a Chevening Scholar on CEES’s Master of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship programme as part of a highly competitive international scholarship. Read the full article below!

cees.leeds.ac.uk/casestudies/cl…

At a time when competition for jobs is intense, developing such skills is one way to gain an advantage in the employment market. The Leeds for Life website gives you some examples of which skills can be developed through CEES modules:

students.leeds.ac.uk/info/1000058/l…

By studying the new MBChB (Medicine) Plus course, student Sophie-Rose Ekitok combines a traditional medical degree with enterprise education. Read the full article below!

cees.leeds.ac.uk/casestudies/mb…

The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies discovery modules are designed to help you enhance many of the non-subject specific, transferable skills that top employers are seeking in graduates.

See a full list below:
cees.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduate/

SPARK is our award-winning business start-up service, FREE to all University of Leeds students and alumni.

See how they can help you here:

students.leeds.ac.uk/info/1000093/s…

University of Leeds will host the 2024 Rural Entrepreneurship Conference from 5th to 7th June, with the theme of 'Empowering Rural Futures: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential in a Net-Zero Era'.

More details: cees.leeds.ac.uk/home-page-cees…

The University of Leeds will be co-running the Family Business Leadership Academy in partnership with KPMG. Apply today here!

kpmg.com/uk/en/home/ser…

Last week, Leeds hosted the hugely successful 9th Entrepreneurship as Practice conference! The event saw 50 entrepreneurship researchers from across 15 countries develop new insights on how entrepreneurship happens with a focus on entrepreneurial practices.

Photo: Richard Tunstall

We are excited to announce that Leeds University Business School is now the 4th most targeted UK university by graduate recruiters, according to the High Fliers' Graduate Market in 2024 report.

Read the full Graduate Market Report: bit.ly/43TwW2M

The United Kingdom’s ease-of-doing-business score is one of the highest in the world, according to the World Bank!

Source: GOV.UK

Read this brilliant article on 'Migrant women in business – a focus on West Yorkshire', an important new project Deema Refai is working on.

business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/res…

Dr Mariana Estrada Robles and Dr Alex Kevill's entry on ‘Retirement’ in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business is now available to access 👏 Mariana Estrada-Robles Alex Kevill

e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar…

Between 2022 and 2023, the total UK business population increased by 46,000 (0.8%).

Source: Federation for Small Businesses

We were delighted welcome Clare Green from the UK Defence and Security Accelerator to give a talk on innovation for a safer future 👏

Photo: Richard Tunstall

Great to be asked to be ‘Enterprise Ambassador in Residence’ for today University of Leeds for CEES at the amazing new digital learning & innovation hub #HelixCentre
Will be providing one-to-one sessions with student entrepreneurs listening to pitches as a critical friend.

Our visiting PhD student Andrea Buratti from UniBg has been working with Mariana Estrada-Robles to study how corporate purpose is applied by companies in their strategy, with particular attention to Italian family businesses 🇮🇹

Reflecting on a fantastically successful Enterprise Ambassadors Day! The event included speed networking, panel events and an ambassadors dinner.

Last week, CEES held a panel event with leading entrepreneurs Matt Battle, Caroline Wherritt, Dawn O’Keefe and Sam Taylor, discussing the theme of 'Entrepreneurial Approaches to Social and Environmental Impact'.

Read more: business.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/1…

Great to see work commencing on the LUBS Entrepreneur Award programme at HELIX. Topics explored include AI, VR and even the use of LEGO for design planning! Richard Tunstall

It's always rewarding to see our alumni return as guest speakers! Recently, Adam Jacobs (CEO of Bloom Procurement Services) gave a talk for the Small Business Growth module, speaking on the theme of '‘developing people and organising for growth’.