28 October, 2022

The Hincks Centre were proud to be selected to present at the prestigious ISBE 2022 Conference in York, 27th and 28th October. 

The theme for this year's conference theme was “Reshaping inclusive enterprise, policy and practice post-pandemic”. Our MTU WeRin colleague, Dr Ana Cruz García presented a paper titled ‘Pushing your horrible rock up the hill: Challenging gender neutrality in the entrepreneurial ecosystem through a framework of root metaphors’.

The paper, co-authored with Dr Sarah Davis, was presented in the gender track and draws on 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs in Ireland (data obtained from the WeRin Regional Scan). The constructive feedback by experts in the field of gender and entrepreneurship, including Lorna Treanor, Sally Jones and Helle Neergaard, will improve the paper, which was well received.

Further information on the WeRin project is available on our website here. The WeRin Regional Scan for Ireland is available on the WeRin website at https://werinproject.eu/resources/