Fit for the Future
5th Prowess Annual International Conference: 20 - 21st February 2008, Peterborough
Thank-you to all the delegates, speakers, workshop leaders and panellists who contributed to making the 5th Annual International Prowess conference such a success. Over 300 people met in Peterborough for a highly interactive and inspirational two days. Many thanks to host sponsor the East of England Development Agency and corporate sponsor The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest.
Research Strand: The research strand was sponsored by De Montfort University. Ten papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. Please find full papers below:
- Women Business Owners in the Middle East and North Africa: A 5-Country Research Study (Weeks, J. President and CEO of Womenable)
- Soft Skills: the Hard Facts (Tobin, P. Founder/Creative Director, Barrier Breakers)
- Entrepreneurial Choice, Gender Differentials and Access to Finance (Sana, V. Aston Business School)
- Fostering Gender Equality - Meeting the Entrepreneurship and Microfinance Challenge (Lammermann, S. Assistant Programme and Research Manager, European Microfinance Network)
- Bangladeshi Women and Self-Employment: Options, Barriers and Solutions (Mackinnon, I and Ali, D. Street Cred, Quaker Social Action)
- Risky Business: Women and their perception of crime (Brindley, C. Professor in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Nottingham Trent University)
- Motivations and Realities in Women’s Business Networking: a Welsh Case (Atkinson, C. Senior Lecturer, Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan)
- Womens’ Entrepreneurial Process in a Learning Network (Arhio, K. Principal Lecturer, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences)
- The Empowerment of Self Employed Eastern European Migrant Women (Dr. Al-Dajani, H. Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia)
- ABSTRACT ONLY: Women Entrepreneurs: Building, Maintaining, and Utilising Social Capital (Muhammad Azam Roomi, Director Research, Centre for Women's Enterprise, University of Bedfordshire Business School)
Roundtable Discussion Groups: Eighteen roundtable discussion groups took place during the conference each table was asked to draw together three recommendations. Click here for the results.
Full conference 2008 programme