Research interests: Lucas’ research focuses on the intersection between social enterprises and rural development. Within his PhD he investigated how rural based social enterprises mobilise different kind of resources in their interaction with cross-sectoral stakeholders and how they engaged with their ‘places’ in order to contribute to a neo-endogenous development of their rural localities/areas. Lucas has previously done research in the fields of migration and social inclusion/exclusion. Keywords Research interests: Social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, social and solidarity economy, rural development, place-based development, migration. Areas of collaboration: other networks on the social economy/social enterprises-entrepreneurship: EMES (emes.net); RurAction (www.ruraction.eu) (EU H2020-MarieSklodowskaCurieAction-Innovative Training Network). Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas-Olmedo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-olmedo-75a70b20b/

Lucia is a lecturer and researcher in entrepreneurship and marketing in TU Dublin, School of Marketing. Apart from creating engaging and impactful learning experiences for undergraduate, postgraduate and executive learners (which often includes working with enterprises and social enterprises), Lucia has a strong research interest in entrepreneurship. Lucia’s postdoctoral research in UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Research School involved being embedded in a social enterprise for a number of months and fortunate to observe some significant and unexpected changes. Lucia’s current focus is on understanding of social enterprises that have pursued growth strategy, their triggers for scaling-up and barriers and reasons for failed growth.

Research interests: For her PhD-research, Mara is currently investigating how the hybrid nature of rural social enterprises is of influence on their organisational strategy. Rural-based social enterprises are more and more seen as potential partners in fostering development in rural areas, both by politicians and academics. However, we know very little of the way in which rural social enterprises are able to address the needs of rural areas and how they are able to continue to do this over time. Because of their hybrid nature, these organisations need to balance among others social and economic goals, as well as the perceptions and expectations of many different stakeholders. Through a qualitative case study methodology, Mara investigates how, over time, rural social enterprises deal with this hybridity in their organisational strategy. Keywords Research interests: Social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, hybrid organisations, rural development, community development, qualitative research methods, critical realism. Areas of collaboration: Mara is an early stage researcher in the EU Horizon-2020 funded MSCA-ITN ‘RurAction’ (www.ruraction.eu). Mara is also a member of the EMES-network. Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mara_Van_Twuijver2 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvtwuijver/ Twitter: @MWvanTwuijver

Dr Marie Taylor's focus is on social enterprise and rural development. Marie is also a lecturer in tour guiding and Irish heritage with the Flexible Learning Unit in LIT. https://lit.ie/Research-Development/Development/Our-Team-(1)/Dr-Marie-Taylor

Research interests: sustainable, place-based rural development, community/collective social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and rural co-operatives. Mary is the Short Term Scientific Mission Manager for EU COST Action Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars. She serves on a number of national and international research and policy advisory bodies. Mary is a director at Micro Finance Ireland, founding member of  EMES (International research network, comparative research, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy and social innovation), member of the National Social Enterprise Task Force (Ireland) and academic member to the steering group of Ireland’s first National Social Enterprise Policy. She sits on the editorial board of Social Enterprise Journal.  She was awarded UCC Research Supervisor of the Year (2019). Current research projects include: H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Collective Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Rural Development) in collaboration with 10 European research institutes, universities, rural community social enterprises and rural cooperatives; Work Integrations Social Enterprises in the Criminal Justice System (Irish Research Council), and Community-led Multi-Actor Approaches to Sustainable Rural Development in collaboration with Self Help Africa, Teagasc, Partners in Learning and NUIG. Areas of collaboration: Social Enterprise, Sustainable Rural Development and Rural Co-operatives. Please include links to your profiles in any of the following:

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Research interests: Social Enterprise Social enterprise in practice, entrepreneurial motivations in social enterprise formation, innovation in social enterprise, local and community benefits provided by social enterprise. Customer Experience Management Educational Partnership Childcare, particularly school age childcare. Action Research and Reflective Practice (e.g. evaluative practice) Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michele_Osullivan LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheleosullivan1/ Your profile page at your institution. https://business.dcu.ie/staff/michele-osullivan/

Research interests: Entrepreneurship, Community Development and Innovation Areas of collaboration: Innovation in higher education, minority entrepreneurship, community development.

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Research interests: co-operatives, credit unions, financial exclusion/inclusion, governance, social performance and impact measurement Areas of collaboration: Olive is a programme director on the online MSc in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and the MSc in Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development. She serves on a number of national and international research and policy bodies. She is a member of the Credit Union Advisory Committee, appointed by the Minister for Finance, a member of the International Scientific Commission on the Social and Co-operative Economy of CIRIEC (The International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy), an advisory board member of the Centre for Community Finance Europe (CFCFE) and a board member with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). Current research projects include social impact measurement for credit unions and financial exclusion among social housing tenants in Ireland (funded by Cluid and The Housing Finance Agency). Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olive_Mccarthy2 Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2791-5214 UCC: https://www.cubsucc.com/faculty-directory/dr-olive-mccarthy/

Research interests: Sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship and enterprise, social and sustainability innovation, circular bioeconomy, community development, qualitative research methods Areas of collaboration: Sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation, circular bioeconomy, entrepreneurship education

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Research interests: Universal Basic Income and Conflict Transformation – my PhD focuses on whether a UBI could assist with transformation in a post-conflict society such as Northern Ireland Areas of collaboration: I would be particularly interested in collaborating with anyone carrying out research on:

• Universal Basic Income
• Welfare reform
• Social liberal theory
• Post conflict societies generally
• Social trust
• Behavioural modelling
• Tax/benefit modelling using tools such as EUROMOD

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Research interests: Public Procurement , Sustainable Communities, Micro Enterprises Areas of collaboration: Access to Public Procurement , Developing sustainable economies, public policy and microenterprises

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Robert is a PhD student at Queen's University Belfast. His research explores the role of landownership and landowners in wind energy production. The relatively extensive spatial requirements of renewable energies like wind, solar and biomass situates the landowner as a central political and economic player in the low carbon transition. Drawing on political economy/political ecology, I examine the role of rent relations within the wind industry. I employ a comparative analysis of three European countries to explain the distributive and structural effects of private landownership in these different contexts. The research aims to understand how different systems of property rights can contribute to fair but rapid decarbonisation.

Research interests: Entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial teams; social entrepreneurship; sustainability and social innovation. Areas of collaboration: Investigating the entrepreneurial student (am national coordinator of GUESSS research project); social entrepreneurship

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