Projects (CREME)

CREME is undertaking numerous projects, both continuous and new, in collaboration with esteemed colleagues within Aston Business School and more broadly.

Current Projects

Advancing the UK’s capacity to support migrant participation in civic, political and public life

Monder Ram, Eva Kasperova
Funder: ESRC IAA Impact Escalator (Individual) Awards
November 2024 – October 2025

This project builds on CREME‘s partnership with ACH and Birmingham City Council under the EU-funded MILE project (2022-23) seeking to explore how local authorities engage with and include migrant communities in policy-making. Forming new partnerships with the Coalition of Latin Americans in the UK, Social Equity Centre, Migrant Democracy Project, and Migration Policy and Practice, the aim is to scale up the impact of CREME’s research identifying a dearth of local capacity to support migrant engagement with civic, political and public sector participation opportunities in the city of Birmingham. Our objectives are three-fold: (1) Co-design a package of educational materials to develop local capacity and reach in this area; (2) Pilot and evaluate the materials; (3) Host two events to raise awareness UK-wide, develop new collaborations, and promote a positive impact of migrant participation on social cohesion and wider socio-economic outcomes.

Time to Change: A Blueprint for Advancing the UK's Ethinic Minority Businesses

Monder Ram, Richard Roberts, Susan Lanz, Chantel Thompson, Julie Baker, Sharniya Ferdinand
Funder: NatWest Group
May 2022 – Present

The Time to Change Report: A Blueprint for Advancing the UK’s Ethnic Minority Businesses, commissioned by NatWest Group and prepared by the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship at Aston University sets out ten evidence-based recommendations for developing better policy and support targeting EMBs which, if implemented, have the potential of generating a four-fold increase in the annual GVA for EMBs, from £25 billion to £100 billion. Learn more about the project here.

Supporting Refugee Creative Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Experiences, Barriers, and Organisational Assistance in Birmingham’s Arts Sector ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship

Monder Ram, Amanda Beattie, Patrycja Rozbicka, Jason Jones
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
October 2024 – September 2028

This project will investigate the experiences, barriers, and support needs of refugees engaged in entrepreneurship in Birmingham’s rich cultural sector. It will involve an interdisciplinary supervisory team comprising the distinct but complementary expertise of two leading research centres – the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement (CMFD) and the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), and Celebrating Sanctuary (CS). By providing new conceptual synthesis and empirical scrutiny of refugees' links between arts engagement and creative venturing, this project will address critical gaps at the intersection of cultural entrepreneurship, forced migration, and creative industries research. Extant studies on refugee entrepreneurship largely focus on their experiences, motivations, and challenges in launching and developing businesses (Desai et al., 2021; Ram et al., 2022), with little consideration of the arts sector. Yet research on refugees and the cultural activities suggest engagement with the arts can enable skills development, confidence building, and social connections among refugee communities (Young, 2023; exemption being Essers and Tedmanson, 2014). The project will utilises cultural entrepreneurship perspectives to highlight how engagement with arts and heritage provides resources conducive to new venture creation and development, including human, social, and symbolic capital (Lounsbury and Glynn, 2001; Brien et al., 2021; Fancourt and Finn, 2021). By examining how refugees access these ‘entrepreneurial resources’ (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001) through arts participation, this framework will provide tools to analyse pathways from cultural activities to creative entrepreneurship. The project will also explore how different aspects of one’s identity and social position, such as refugee status and being an entrepreneur, combine to create unique challenges and barriers. The intersectionality theory (Crenshaw, 2017; Dy et al., 2017) will illuminate the complex and multiple forms of exclusion people face when attempting to enter the cultural industries.Celebrating Sanctuary champions inclusion and opportunity in the arts for refugees and asylum seekers in the region. Their programmes provide pathways for artistic development, skills acquisition, and networking that can inspire and enable entrepreneurial activities. This project emerged from ongoing conversations between the proposers and CS to strengthen understanding of refugee creative business needs. CSB’s lunchtime concert series, along with their leadership in Birmingham’s International Refugee Week Program, will provide access to formal and informal data collection opportunities. The PhD project will utilise a robust longitudinal case study methodology drawing on archival, interview, and observational data facilitated by a placement in Year Two with CS to provide a holistic investigation of refugees’ cultural participation, skills acquisition, and entrepreneurial trajectories over time and at present in Birmingham. The project will make important contributions to research, practice, and student development. The student will work with a leading organisation dedicated to promoting inclusion and opportunity in the arts for refugees and asylum seekers. The student will benefit from the guidance of CS staff, their deep knowledge of the cultural sector and their relationships with different refugee communities. The student will apply and test their theoretical and methodological skills in a realworld setting, co-producing knowledge and solutions that are relevant and impactful for academia and practice. The co-produced research will involve the testing of intervention plans which will enable CS to enact ‘refugee creative entrepreneurship’ in practice and evaluate its effectiveness and impact. The project will further CS’s strategic goal of increasing the inclusion and diversity of the cultural sector and beyond.

Leveraging Digitalisation for the Internationalisation and Growth of Ethnic Minority Businesses in the West Midlands

Monder Ram, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Ananya Yadav
Funder: Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands
October 2024 – September 2027

Aston Business School is pleased to present a pivotal research opportunity titled "Leveraging Digitalisation for the Internationalisation and Growth of Ethnic MinorityBusinesses in the West Midlands." This project aligns with Aston University’s Aston 2030 strategy, emphasizing innovation, global influence, and regional development, and also resonates with the research focus of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME).

The research aims to understand how digitalisation influences ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in the West Midlands, a region of significant economic and cultural diversity.EMBs contribute substantially to the UK economy; however, they face unique challenges such as limited resources, digital literacy issues, and specific cultural or contextual obstacles. This project explores several key aspects: how digitalisation enhances the growth and internationalisation of EMBs in the West Midlands, the drivers and barriers for EMBs in adopting digital technologies, and how institutional arrangements and support mechanisms enable EMBs to leverage their cultural and ethnic ties for internationalisation.

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this research integrates findings from ethnic minority entrepreneurship, digitalisation and technology adoption, and international business debates. The theoretical contribution is twofold: advancing ethnic minority entrepreneurship literature by examining the strategic use of digitalisation for growth and internationalisation, and contributing to international business literature by investigating how EMBs orchestrate ethnic connections and digitalisation for international growth. The practical impact of this research is significant, especially for the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands (IAWM), providing insights into EMBs' challenges in adopting digitalisation and their potential for growth in the digital economy.

The methodology is a mixed-method design combining action research with a survey. Action research involves collaborating with EMBs as co-researchers, encompassing diagnosis, planning, action, and reflection stages. The survey component assesses EMBs on their digital adoption, uses, perceptions, and impact on growth and internationalisation. This research opportunity is not just a contribution to academic study but also has the potential to influence real-world business practices and policies, particularly in enhancing the capabilities of EMBs in the digital economy. The successful candidate will gain invaluable experience and contribute to a project at the nexus of digitalisation, ethnic minority entrepreneurship, and international business, under the guidance of experienced researchers at Aston Business School.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)

Monder Ram, Shuai Qin, Ahmad Beltagui, Fuad Mahamed, Thomas Dixon
Funder: Innovate UK
August 2024 – August 2026

About Ashley Community and Housing Ltd

Ashley Community and Housing Ltd (ACH) is a social enterprise providing supported housing and integration services for refugees who have recently received their five-year leave to remain. By delivering training, education and business development programmes, ACH provides refugees and migrants with the tools they need to lead self-sufficient and ambitious lives. It operates across Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry and Wolverhampton.

The challenge that the KTP was set up to address

ACH’s goal is to grow its supported housing, training and integration services so they are more sustainable and generate new income streams. To achieve this, the KTP will help ACH to:

evidence the impact of its programmes on the lives of refugees and migrants and incorporate this evidence into external funding applications, generate new income through commercial training for companies on utilising the skills of refugees and migrants, build new partnerships with philanthropists in an increasingly crowded sector of third-sector housing providers, use profits to invest in freehold properties for supported housing, so the company can reduce its number of leasehold properties.

The HIM will provide evidence on how ACH delivers social, economic and cultural benefits for refugees and migrants. There is potential for this model to be shared with similar organisations, bringing value to the wider sector.

By generating new income streams through the HIM-based commercialisation model, ACH will increase its capacity to develop services and programmes that are better tailored to the needs of refugees and migrants. Through its commercialised service offerings, ACH will also generate funds to invest in freehold properties, innovate in integration services, and sustain its future as a housing provider.

Through this KTP, Aston University will have the opportunity to tailor and apply its holistic impact metrics to refugees and migrants in a social enterprise setting, which has not been done before. This real-world application has the potential to be expanded further and may lead to future research and development collaborations, student projects and placements.

Why a KTP is the ideal route

Aston University’s Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) is the partner of choice for ACH. With expertise that is core to this KTP, the Centre has a local, national and international reputation for developing innovative approaches to refugee entrepreneurship and integration that are co-designed, delivered and evaluated with community partners. CREME is a leading contributor to academic and policy debates on minority entrepreneurship through its partnerships with national organisations and businesses. Its work benefits diverse and overlooked communities and helps to drive change in social inclusion, migration policy, supplier diversity and wages.

This expertise is not available commercially to ACH, and the project will build upon CREME’s pioneering research into measuring how support services impact the life journey of refugees.

The project also draws on business model innovation and service operations management from Aston Business School to build a commercialisation model for ACH based on holistic impact evaluation. This is one of the UK’s leading business schools for supporting small and medium enterprises, ranking in the UK’s top ten and 66th in the 2024 QS World Rankings by subject for Business and Management Studies.

What the research will involve

The KTP team will audit all existing ACH programmes and create a bespoke impact evaluation plan that builds on and extends current academic knowledge. They will then develop a Holistic Impact Measure (HIM), capable of generating impact data across all current and future ACH programmes. This will map out each project’s impact and show how impacts are linked across the organisation.

The KTP Associate, embedded into the ACH’s Birmingham site for two years, will introduce evidence-based methodologies to the team, develop collaborative ways of working, and establish systems for collecting evaluation data.

Insights from the HIM will help to develop a new business model for ACH’s commercial training. Evidence of how ACH makes a difference will enhance the organisation’s bid writing process, improving their competitiveness and success rates in attracting funding and philanthropic support.

The research team

The KTP is led at Aston University by Professor Monder Ram OBE, CREME Centre Director. Professor Ram’s work is internationally recognised and has helped to shape the field of ethnic minority entrepreneurship over the last 30 years. He regularly consults for small and ethnic minority businesses and was named one of the country’s most influential Asians by the Institute of Asian Professionals. He sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for BAME Business Owners.

Professor Ram is supported by Dr Shuai Qin, CREME Impact Fellow and Dr Ahmad Beltagui, Reader in Operations and Information Management at Aston Business School.

Dr Shuai Qin is a specialist in the design, implementation, and evaluation of support programmes for refugee-owned start-ups. He develops new ways to facilitate and monitor the impact of support services on the life journeys of refugees and has previously worked with ACH to help design their programmes. With research expertise that is central to this KTP, Dr Qin is supervising the KTP Associate and developing impact evaluation and commercialisation strategies for ACH.

Dr Ahmad Beltagui is a business model innovation and service operations management expert. His research focuses on design-driven innovation, innovation ecosystems and digital technology as applied to social and business challenges. He also researches service experience design and has appeared in the national media. He is supporting ACH to develop scalable commercial products and services and will co-supervise the KTP Associate.

Fuad Mahamed, CEO, is leading the project for ACH, supported by Thomas Dixon, Senior Project Officer and Daisy Pitcher, Business Development and Projects Lead.

What will change as a result of the KTP?

The HIM tool is a novel approach for this sector, and new way for ACH and organisations like it to enhance and evidence impact. As well as outcomes like finding a job, the tool will look at broader integration and life-journey measures like improvements in self-confidence, mental wellbeing, physical health and engagement with social activities. This framework will support ACH to be more effective at allocating resources, enhancing unique selling points, commercialising impacts, branding its offer and creating synergy between their social and commercial value. In addition, innovative approaches to commercial training will enhance ACH’s unique selling points.

Broad benefits and impacts

Financial Resilience of Ethnic Minority-led Small Businesses

Andy Lymer, Monder Ram, Sally Dibb, Saidul Haque Saeed, Hussan Aslam
Funder: Aviva Foundation
April 2024 - June 2026

The Centres for Personal Financial Wellbeing (CPFW) and Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) at Aston University, the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University, and Citizen’s UK, have formed a consortium to better understand and build the financial resilience of ethnic minority-led small businesses.

This project brings together a unique mix of researchers and practitioners with expertise and track record in exploring small business ownership and financial resilience, and developing practical solutions to make a difference. The project aims to better understand the challenges that business founders from minority ethnic backgrounds face when they start and then maintain their ventures. Using this insight, a suite of interventions with be developed and piloted, focusing on how best to minimise risk to personal and family financial resilience when starting and growing new businesses.

This two year project will produce outputs at regular intervals that will be added to this page and advertised via our social media links, as it progresses.

Generative AI for Refugees’ Socio-Economic Integration and Social Good

Shuai Qin, Monder Ram, Padeep Chintagunta, Xialon Chen, Vasiles Balabanis
Funder: British Academy
October 2024 - April 2026

This groundbreaking initiative aims to tackle persistent challenges in refugee integration by leveraging the transformative potential of generative AI. The project is an international collaboration led by CREME and sits at the intersection of technological and social innovation. Its focus is twofold: exploring the potential of generative AI, a rapidly advancing field, and addressing critical gaps in the current systems supporting refugee and migrant socio-economic integration. The aim is to create generative AI tools that are inclusive, theoretically informed, and capable of addressing critical gaps in support systems for marginalised communities. Partnering with ACH, a leading UK-based refugee integration service provider, project activities will be co-designed.

Previous Projects

MILE: Migrant Integration through Locally Designed Experiences

Monder Ram, Eva Kasperova
Funder: European Commission
January 2022 - December 2023

The Migrant Integration through Locally designed Experiences (MILE) project is funded by the European Commission and has been established to create a sustainable ecosystem and a replicable cooperation between the municipalities and local migrant led associations following the specific features and needs of each city involved in the project. The project sees the involvement of 6 countries: Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Spain, Netherlands, and the UK. The municipalities will constitute a European Network of Exchange and Collaboration (ENEC) of best practices, pitfalls, and mutual learnings just as all the migrant led organisations in the different country will build up a peer-to-peer exchange platform that will constitute the backbone of future collaborations. The diversity of perspectives, migrant communities and local policies will be the main added value of the research which aim will be to turn the experiences into recommendations for better integration policies.

Supported by the science for policy approach, MILE aims at setting up inclusive consultative mechanisms for each city involved, in the area that is the most impacted by the migrant presence and agency. The ultimate scope is to enhance the possibility for the migrants to not only raise their voices and participate in a meaningful way but also to co-create and co-design integration policies in their localities, based on their urgent needs. At the same time, MILE will give to the municipality valid tools to assess the real necessities of the local migrant community.

Productivity from Below: Addressing the Productivity Challenges of Microbusinesses

Monder Ram, Mark Hart, Luke Fletcher, Judy Scully, Anne Green (Birmingham and Stephen Roper. Non-academic partners: Ashley Community Housing, the Bangladeshi Network, Citizens UK and Punch Records
Funder: ESRC
February 2019-January 2021

This project uses academic research, co-produced with practitioners, to design and implement scalable policies to boost productivity by strengthening management practices in micro-businesses (with 1-9 employees). The project will focus on businesses owned and run by disadvantaged communities in the West Midlands, who are some of the 'toughest nuts to crack' in terms of business support for enhancing productivity.

ProPEL Hub: Productivity Outcomes of Workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning

Graeme Roy, Patricia Findlay, Monder Ram and colleagues from Ulster University and the Universities of Sheffield, Nottingham, East Anglia, Cardiff and Strathclyde
Funder: ESRC
February 2020 – March 2024

The hub will work with businesses, policymakers and support organisations to help improve the UK’s productivity performance through better management and employee engagement.
A range of themes, from management and leadership, to innovation, job design, and lessons from workplace practice and employee engagement, will be studied, with the aim of identifying practical steps to boost productivity within businesses and the UK economy.
The PrOPEL Hub will also act as a focal point for engagement with policymakers, businesses and employee organisations across the UK, with the aim of informing future decision making with the latest cutting-edge research.

Pathways to Enterprising Futures

Project Staff: Monder Ram, Elina Meliou, Susan Lanz, Rakhi Parmar, Wray Bennett, Ibrahim Abbas, Alexander Lamle, Shuai Qin
Funding body: European Social Fund
Project Partners: ACH and Citizens UK Birmingham

Pathways to Enterprising Futures (PEF) is a programme for Entrepreneurship and Employability, it is an innovative approach to opening employment pathways and supporting enterprise skills for ethnic minority individuals in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP (GBS LEP) area. Blending cutting edge research and outstanding links with diverse communities and building on Aston's work with highly credible intermediaries who are leaders in their field in a co-created programme of support.

Part funded by the European Social Fund, the project works with two partners, Citizens UK and ACH to deliver outreach activities to engage with individuals from diverse backgrounds, in hard to reach communities, and ensure they have the opportunity and know how to start a business, helping them move closer to self-employment or employment and improving diversity and representation in GBS LEP’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

This will be achieved through a number of diverse activities including identifying economically inactive or unemployed ethnic minority individuals in communities who are open to building their skills and engaging in enterprise activity, listening and consulting with them about their interests, skills, opportunities and barriers and offering them a range of support services. The support services will include one-to-one support, workshops and advice surgeries delivered in communities and online peer networks.

The project will be underpinned by an action research framework and will provide research evidence to policy makers about the skills and business support needs of entrepreneurs, and a template for operating accessible support and networks for ethnic minority communities who face barriers to enterprise and entrepreneurship.

What does support look like?

The project provides free* tailored support to help participants in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull area take a step closer to the labour market by getting them into job search, into employment, or starting their own business in 3 steps:

Step One - Initial Interview – to get to know you and look at how we can help

We can organise a time convenient to you for an informal interview, we’d like to get to know you, find out more about what you would like to achieve, and we will check you are eligible for the support. We will speak to you about the type of job you would like to apply for, or your ideas and thoughts on the business you would like to start and help to address any barriers you may have.

Step Two – Progress Plan – look at how we can support you

Once we have checked you are eligible, we will work with you to create a Progress Plan to provide you with the tailored support you need. This can include training courses, how to start up a business, confidence building, how to write a CV and where to look for the job you want. We will sign post you to suitable job clubs, vacancies, workshops and training sessions.

Step Three – Success! – get you job ready, or start your own business

By the time we get to this step we would like for you to have found a job, be looking for a job or have all the necessary information to be able to start your own business. With right support we believe we can help you make your way to a brighter future.

*Who can apply?

Our eligibility criteria is as follows:
•   Aged 18 and above
•   Living in Birmingham and Solihull
•   Have permission to work in UK
•   NOT in employment or self-employment

We can support individual’s meeting the above eligibility criteria, but the project will also give focus to individuals who are:

•   From an Ethnic Minority
•   Lone Parents
•   With a disability
•   Over 50 years of age
•   Without basic skills

Participant Testimonials

“I would recommend PEF for anyone out there who is currently unemployed, low self-esteem, wanting to improve their skills (i.e. English) or training of even if they are looking to start their own business. It boosted my confidence and I gained a sense of purpose”
Mohammad Almasri

‘I am happy being part of the project, everyone has been helpful and supportive for me to improve my skills. I feel as though I have benefited from this whole experience, and I am looking forward to the future.’
Amina Missi

Contact Us

Email helloPEF@aston.ac.uk to find out more. Twitter @PEFProject

The project is receiving funding from the European Social Fund as part of the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme in England. The Department for Work and Pensions (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for the England European Social Fund programme. Established by the European Union, the European Social Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support skills development, employment and job creation, social inclusion and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding

LinkedIn @esf-pathways-to-enterprising-futures

Lid on Enterprise Diversity and Growth in the West Midlands

To collect and analyse data on business creation of ethnic minorities in the West Midlands to add to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) dataset. This will generate data to support evidence based policy making on minority enterprise and inclusive.

More information on this project is available.

Rethinking Migrant Entrepreneurship

Monder Ram, Maria Villares (Southampton University), Sabina Doldor, Gerardo Arriaga, Hongqin Li and Ashley Community Housing (ACH)
Funders: ESRC, ACH and CRÈME
October 2015 - September 2020

A long-term programme of knowledge exchange that comprises a variety of different interventions, including academic research on the aspirations of refugee entrepreneurs, capacity-building support for ACH staff, and collaboration on ACH's national 'Rethinking Refugees' campaign, which aims to promote a positive discourse on refugees in the UK

Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs Sourcebook - Unlocking Opportunity Report

Richard Roberts, Bochra Idris, Neha Prashar, Anastasia Ri, Monder Ram, Mark Hart
Funder: Federation for Small Businesses
January 2020 - June 2020

Refugee Entrepreneurs: Now and Then

Monder Ram, Trevor Jones, Maria Villares (Southampton University), Sabina Doldor and Hongqin Li
Funder: CREME
December 2019 - November 2021

What happens to refugees during the entrepreneurial life-cycle? Do refugees simply view entrepreneurship as means of survival? Do they simply ‘get’ by’ on a day-to-day basis? Or is their scope for significant growth? We examine these questions in our longitudinal qualitative study of how refugee-origin entrepreneurs in the UK develop their businesses over a period of time.

The Evolution of Business Support Policy for Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs

Richard Roberts, Monder Ram and Trevor Jones
Funder: CREME
January 2019-December 2021

This project seeks to use a mixture of archival and contemporary sources of research material to chart the development and content of UK business support for the SME community. While much has been written about the importance of the Bolton Inquiry into small firms (1969-71) most of this concentrates on the political circumstances at the time. Virtually nothing has been researched to identify the linkages between the Inquiry and subsequently the detailed emergence and development of specific support policies. Initial work is underway on charting the development of EMB policy between the late 1970s and today with a view to a greater understanding of policy issues. Similar work is already planned on small business finance policy with other areas to be investigated when time and resources allow.

Innovation, Diversity and Supply Chains

Nick Theodorakopolous, Monder Ram and ABS Colleagues
Funder: European Regional Development Fund
November 2019 - October 2022

The purpose of the project is to assist minority owned businesses to enter the supply chains of major contractors within the private and public sector.

Find out more information here

Inclusive Business Support Ecosystem

Monder Ram, Eva Kasperova, Paul Basil, Gerardo Arriaga,Citizens UK, NatWest Bank and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Enterprise Partnership
Funder: ERDF
May 2020 - April 2023

The ‘Inclusive Business support Ecosystem’ (BIE) project provides business support to entrepreneurs in three disadvantaged areas (Lozells, Small Heath and Sparkhill). It comprises a unique partnership of researchers (CREME), civil society (Citizens UK Birmingham) and the banking sector (NatWest Bank). The first phase of the BIE project exceeded targets by: providing support to over 50 businesses in three disadvantaged areas (Lozells, Small Heath and Sparkhill); interacting with 219 entrepreneurs who had not previously engaged with business support providers; and developing a unique and scalable model of inclusive business support. The next will: draw on the lessons of the first phase; deliver bespoke business support to growth firms in the three areas; and provide a clear pathway to ensure that such support becomes part and parcel of ‘mainstream’ business support provision.

The Psychological Contract and Migrant Entrepreneurs

Sudeshna Bhattacharya, Monder Ram and Trevor Jones
Funder: Aston Business School
December 2018 - November 2018

What is the career trajectory of migrant entrepreneurs? This is a rarely explored question, and it easy to see why: migrant businesses are often precarious with limited prospects for longevity; micro-businesses (which encompasses most migrant enterprises) remain small and are pre-occupied with day-to-day survival; and such firms lack internal labour markets, thus problematising the notion of ‘career’. This project generates new academic knowledge by interrogating a unique qualitative data set comprising case studies of migrant firms studied since 2010. We revisit these firms and examine the extent to which the notion of career helps to explain their trajectories.

Student Engagement Project – CREME Placements

Elsa Zenatti-Daniels, Sarah Collins, Gurdeep Chima
February 2021

This project will engage students in the work that CREME does, and students are invited to participate in two ways. The first stream will focus on partnering a module within the MSc programme focusing on a social media, communications and marketing strategy for CREME, and a student will be offered a 4-week paid internship during the Summer quarter of 2020.