Postgraduate research students

Mia's research focuses on creative entrepreneurs across Scotland and how they contribute to the areas they are based in, across various spatial dimensions. She works with artists of across the cultural spectrum, including visual artists and performers, who run their own social and community enterprise. Her PhD focuses on the legitimacy of creative entrepreneurship within Scotland and the historical precedent of this, the identity of creative entrepreneurs and the relationship these entrepreneurs have to the State. 

Mia is particularly interested in how social and community enterprises contribute to economic development, and the relationship government policy has within this. Mia uses historical research methods in conjunction with qualitative data within her work to map the growth and support of creative entrepreneurs over time within Scotland.

Mia's research sits within the Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.  

Mia has also worked on the Authentic Leadership Pedagogy project with Dr Aleksandra Bavdaz which focuses on connecting business practice of leadership into higher education settings and quantitative research assistant work within the department. This is in conjunction with current part time work within Widening Participation and the Recovering Community podcast based here at the University of Glasgow. 

Clarke, M. and Harris, S. (2025) Dealing with Jokers in the Pack: Social Enterprise and the State in Scotland, 1965-1999. Business History. Forthcoming.

• Professor Jillian Gordon

• ASBS Mobility Grant (2024) to attend the University of Queensland, Australia as a visiting scholar in January - March 2025

• Clarke, M., Gordon, J. and MacKenzie, N. G. (2025, 10th February - 14th February). The journey of creative entrepreneurs, embeddedness, and legitimation on the road to value creation [Paper presentation]. Australasian Consortium for Entrepreneurship Research Excellence, Melbourne, Australia.

• MGT1005 - Introduction to Management
• MGT4018 - Research Methods
• MGT4091 - Integrating Business and Management in Practise 
• MGT5180 - International Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Visiting Scholar

University of Queensland, (AU).

Memberships

Member of the Innovation and Research Caucus.

Previous Scholarships & Grants

• Rest of UK Excellence Scholarship (2016-2020).
• Saltire Scholar (2019) jointly awarded by Entrepreneurial Scotland and Capital Theatres, Edinburgh.
• Adam Smith Business School Scholarship to Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Canada (2018).

Mia also previously served as Vice President Education of Students' Representative Council (GUSRC) in academic year 2021-22, presenting work in post across the University of Glasgow, and abroad at Université libre de Bruxelles and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. A link to an example of her work in post around Decolonising the Curriculum can be found here.