David Higgins

Biography

David has worked extensively within the HE sector across the UK. David’s teaching roles have primarily been on post-graduate and post-experience master’s programmes of study. Through his research and teaching interests David has developed a strong awareness for the importance of using innovative forms of teaching and research. This has been supported through three ESRC bursary awards which David received in 2008, 2010 & 2012. David’s primary teaching duties are in the areas of DBA Supervision and Research Methods.

Research Interest

David's research interests lay in the fields of Entrepreneurship /SME learning through action. He has developed a deepening fascination with the relationship between how entrepreneurial practices are mediated through learned and learning experiences, by taking a practice based view of learning. In particular his work encompasses the development of applied actionable research on these issues. Through his continuing research David has adopted a strong social constructionist perspective on the development of (art-based) methodological reflexive approaches to the study of social learning, which is based on the perspective that social reality is not separate from us, but that social realities and ourselves are intimately interwoven, as each shapes and is shaped by the other, in our everyday interactions. Although David uses a variety of different qualitative research methods, he makes particular use of ethnographic techniques, especially narrative/discursive forms of research reporting as means of researching/teaching by providing insights to a range of audiences about the complexities, contradictions, and mediated nature of social learning.