Smita Singh

Dr Smita Singh is a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She teaches a range of Entrepreneurship and Management courses at various undergraduate and postgraduate levels and degrees.
Underpinning her research is a passion for illuminating the hidden stories, how venture work and wellbeing are interconnected, focusing on the possibilities of transformation and development that lie within the silent experiences of loss, 'taken-for-granted' cultural taboos, and stigmatized conditions.
Her research has highlighted grief, stigma, and resilience in experiencing entrepreneurial failure. Her research interests also include social entrepreneurship with focus on vulnerable populations' voices and bringing forward conversations on matters often perceived as too unsettling, morbid, or dark and therefore avoided.
She crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore such topics and contexts in entrepreneurs' lives and their enterprises' work. She has published in a number of well known international journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, International Small Business Journal, Management Learning and Third World Quarterly.
Smita serves as an Associate Editor for the Management, Spirituality & Religion Journal. Her research is featured in well-known industry platforms and community engagement invitations, such as a TEDx talk titled 're-imagining failure,' RadioLive, Idealog, and Callaghan Innovation, NZBusiness and NZ Herald.