Category: events

Working with Digital Women UK

Angela Martinez Dy

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I’ve recently published the second instalment of a 3-part blog series over at Digital Women UK. I met the visionary and dynamic Joy Francis, co-director of the organization and its sister organization, Words of Colour Productions, at a women in digital event put on by Projector, the creative business support programme of Broadway, Nottingham’s main independent cinema. We are working together on a number of projects, of which the blog series is just one.

Links to the first two blogs are below. I’ll add the third one at the end of this month.

1. The Reality of the Female Digital Entrepreneur:

…while the benefits of digital enterprise may be realised in some cases, they are not available across the board, and in many ways are part of the myths surrounding entrepreneurship in the 21st century. Read More…

2. Levelling the Digital Playing Field:

In my study of UK women digital entrepreneurs, I found strong links between their past employment sectors and the self-employment sector they chose. Therefore, because of gendered occupational labour segregation, the majority of them entered feminised sectors, which, due to gender constraints, are often lower-tech, lower-margin and limited in terms of their potential for growth. Read More…

Lastly, I’m excited to be tabling with Digital Women UK at the Women of the World (WOW) Festival at the Southbank Centre in London this Friday, 6 March 2015. They will be there all day and I will be joining them from 1-3pm in the afternoon.

WOW Marketplace, Royal Festival Hall, Level 2
Hashtags: #DWUKTalks and #WOWLDN

Getting Involved with Gender and Enterprise Network

Angela Martinez Dy1 Comment

GEN logoI had the pleasure of spending some time last week with members of the Gender and Enterprise Network (GEN) of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). I was attending a workshop entitled “Innovating Theory: Gendering and Extending Entrepreneurship Theory” with presentations by my awesome supervisor, the esteemed Prof. Susan Marlow, the pioneering gender and entrepreneurship scholar, Prof. Sara Carter of Strathclyde University, Prof Eleanor Shaw, also of Strathclyde, and Dr. Robert Smith, who is doing interesting and novel work on masculinities and entrepreneurship.

It was an excellent and thought-provoking couple of days, in particular for the sessions on future directions in entrepreneurship research, which included looking into entrepreneurial households and families, as well as  something that particularly excited me, which is exploring gender more widely, complicating it intersectionally, and challenging the heteronormative bias of research as it currently exists.

It also resulted in my joining the ISBE GEN committee as its inaugural Digital Communications Officer. This basically meant that I got to live-tweet the event (something I would have happily done anyway) and help build the group’s website (currently underway). I find it really refreshing to build relationships and network with other academics doing research in a similar area, as although we don’t always agree, you can say we “speak the same language.” I look forward to our future work together!