TY - CHAP
AU - Mwaura, Samuel
PY - 2022
DA - October
TI - Coronavirus and the financing of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK
EP - 40
DO - https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00083221
AB - I was greatly fortunate to have secured a pot of funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in 2021. The funding, dubbed “research reboot”, was targeted at academics, especially those from a minority background like myself, whose research would have been severely impacted by the pandemic and thus needed a jumpstart. In my case, I had been experiencing some challenging personal circumstances at the time which had significantly jeopardised my research productivity. In addition, the shift to online teaching required much longer class preparation time and there were a lot more meetings, emails and other admins than usual. As a migrant and single parent with co-parenting and home schooling duties and no family support locally, I had found it very difficult to find time to prioritise research during the pandemic. The RSE funding could not have come at a better time and I remain profoundly grateful for the research time the RSE enabled me to secure.
PB - University of Strathclyde
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/5a5acc2d-dbb6-4116-9e72-21cedd48bdbb
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Minority groups
ER