Dr Marfuga Iskandarova
Small Business Research Centre
Kingston University London
United Kingdom
Biography
I have interest and expertise in the areas of innovation, emerging technologies, renewable energy, sustainability, and energy policy and regulation. I joined SBRC in 2014 as Research Assistant after finishing my PhD in Management Studies at the University of Exeter. Since then I've been working on a number of research projects, including the study of institutional entrepreneurship in community renewable energy, and an ESRC/ISBE funded project on permaculture-inspired entrepreneurship (conducted in collaboration with the UK Permaculture Association). I am currently involved in three-year 'ENERGISE' project funded by Horizon 2020 which investigates socio-economic, cultural and political aspects of the energy transition developing tools for changing individual- and community-level energy consumption. My research experience in relation to entrepreneurship and small business is mainly associated with researching freelance labour markets, sustainable/‘green' entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial intentions and activities of young people (GUESSS project).
Research Interest
public policies, regulation, and institutional reform, sustainability, energy transitions, and renewable energy, (responsible) innovation and emerging technologies
Publications
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Baverstock A, Blackburn R, Iskandarova M. How the role of the independent editor is changing in relation to traditional and self-publishing. Learned Publishing. 2015 Apr 1;28(2):123-31.
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Iskandarova M. From the idea of scale to the idea of agency: An actor-network theory perspective on policy development for renewable energy. Science and Public Policy. 2016 Oct 27:scw075.
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Genus A, Iskandarova M, Warburton Brown C. Permaculture-inspired Enterprises in the UK. Permaculture magazine online. 2017 Jul 14.
