Katharina Heby

PhD Topic: The emergence of entrepreneurship-as-practice

PhD Supervisor: Dr Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo

Katharina's research investigates the emergence of entrepreneurship from a practice-based approach. She uses a longitudinal qualitative research design to follow nascent entrepreneurs on the ground focusing on how they develop entrepreneurship practices and what challenges they face to do so over time. She is conducting her research in the German-based start-up ekipa, which specialises in managing innovation projects, and where she am embedded as an employee so she can use both ethnographic and autoethnographic methods of data collection to observe directly how entrepreneurship practices emerge. Katharina's overall aim is to expand knowledge on the process of entrepreneurship as it becomes an established practice.

She also works as a research assistant with Dr Lucia Garcia Lorenzo and Dr Marcelo Ramella on a longitudinal research project that explores the implementation of post-crisis financial regulation in an international financial centre.

Katharina holds a Bachelor in Psychology from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology from the LSE.

Expertise

Organisational Psychology, Organisational Change