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Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of East Anglia

Zografia Bika is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Business School, UK. Her research focuses on rural, family and institutional entrepreneurship issues using a sociological lens, and has been published in journals such as Family Business Review, Regional Studies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, European Management Review, Sociological Review, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Development Studies, and Human Relations. Her family business research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and won the Best ‘Family Business’ Paper Award at the 2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Entrepreneurship Division, Chicago, USA (https://ent.aom.org/awards) and the 2020 US Family Firm Institute Best Unpublished Research Paper Award (https://www.ffi.org/awards/best-unpublished-research-paper/). She is currently leading the academic evaluation of the major £10.8M EU Interreg France (Channel) England 'Increase Valorisation Sociale' project (co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund) that aims to boost enterprise training and job opportunities for thousands of social housing residents in England and France (2018-2023). She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. [Email: z.bika@uea.ac.uk]

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of East Anglia (UEA)

Education

  • 2004 
    University of Manchester, PhD