Citation
Matlay, H. (2016), "About the Guest Editor", Education + Training, Vol. 58 No. 7/8. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-06-2016-0110
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
About the Guest Editor
Article Type: About the Guest Editor From: Education + Training, Volume 58, Issue 7/8.
Professor Harry Matlay is currently the Dean of Research at the Global Independent Research in Coventry, UK. He specializes in entrepreneurship education, training and learning. Previously, he held senior positions at the SME Centre, Warwick University Business School, Birmingham City Business School and the University of the West of Scotland Business School. Prior to gaining his PhD in Vocational Education and Training from the University of Warwick he worked in senior positions in industry and commerce, as an Entrepreneur and an International Business Consultant. He is the Editor of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (JSBED), Guest Editor of an annual double special issue in Education+Training and special issue on Entrepreneurship Education in the Industry & Higher Education journal. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals and has refereed articles, books and research monographs for major publishing houses, including Edward Elgar, Routledge, Sage, Palgrave and Oxford University Press. Professor Matlay has written, presented and published over 650 refereed journal articles, practitioner features and conference papers and won several prestigious national and international awards. In 2003, he was awarded the Golden Page Award in the research relevance category for his editorial work on JSBED. Currently, he is working with colleagues at various universities in the UK and abroad on research linking entrepreneurship education to entrepreneurial outcomes and stakeholders’ expectations.