Julie Logan

Professor Logan has an extensive background in entrepreneurship and leadership education. In addition to her teaching Julie has mentored many entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams. Professor Logan has also worked with teams from organisations such as KPMG encouraging entrepreneurial thinking and provided consultancy to a variety of organisations.

Professor Logan was Visiting Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Adelaide, and has worked in the USA as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Academic Leadership, University of Illinois.

Julie Logan was the founding Director of Simfonec, an Enterprise Centre for the Royal Veterinary College, King's and Queen Mary College, led by Cass Business School at City University. During Julie's leadership the centre was successful in launching enterprise teaching across the four Universities and in spinning out a number of highly successful ventures some of which have listed on AIM.

In her previous appointment Julie developed and implemented entrepreneurship teaching for many departments at the University of Bristol. Julie was Academic Director for the MBA and Executive MBA at the University of Bristol and headed up a variety of programmes for entrepreneurs and the SME support community. Professor Logan has also worked in the field of social enterprise, developing programmes funded by the UK government to build management capacity and a small business support infrastructure in Bosnia, Vietnam, India and Kenya.

Julie has an active interest in studying government policy on innovation and entrepreneurship, but also entrepreneurship education, third age entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs with disabilities; having previously published work on the links between dyslexia, education and entrepreneurship funded by the Kauffman Foundation and the British Dyslexia Association.

Professor Logan (together with Professor Chris Hendry) published a study of "Barriers and Pathways to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Minority Groups within the UK". This research was funded by Microsoft. Julie has published work on female entrepreneurs funded by Avon Cosmetics and most recently research on the challenges and passion of female entrepreneurs starting ventures at fifty and over.

Julie has experience on a number of boards and is currently Vice Chair of Relate Avon. She comes from a family of serial entrepreneurs, and has first hand experience of business start up and small business management including raising investment funding. Professor Logan is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Qualifications

PhD, MSc and DMS.

Visiting Appointments

• Visiting Professor, Universty of Technology Sydney, Sep 2010 – present
• Grant Reviewer, The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Fellowships

• Fellow, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
• Fellow, Institute of Business Advisors

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership

Additional Topics

• Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management
• Innovation & Creativity

Research

I am currently working on a longitudinal study exploring entrepreneurial self efficacy. This is a project which I am leading but I am co-operating with researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney. We are currently at the data analysis stage.

I am also working with research staff at The University of East Carolina, we are using concept mapping to understand how adults with dyslexia cope with entrepreneurship and employment.

My research on female entrepreneurship continues.

Journal Articles (6)

• Logan, J. (2014). An exploration of the challenges facing women starting business at fifty. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 6(1), pp. 83–96. doi:10.1108/IJGE-03-2013-0019.
• Logan, and Martin, N. (2012). Unusual Talent: a Study of Successful Leadership and Delegation in Entrepreneurs with Dyslexia". The Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education, 4(1), pp. 57–76.
• Logan, J. and Chris Hendry, N.C. (2011). What can we learn from and how can we encorage older entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behaviour and Research .
• Logan, J. (2009). Dyslexic entrepreneurs: the incidence; their coping strategies and their business skills. Dyslexia, 15(4), pp. 328–346. doi:10.1002/dys.388.
• Logan, J. (2005). Facilitating Successful University Spin Outs. Iniciativa Emprendedora, 47(April -June 2005) .
• Logan, J. (2003). Simfonec supports start-ups. European Venture Capital Journal, 2003(101), pp. 19–19.