Andrew Fairley Email & Phone Number

York, Gb

York, England, United Kingdom

Lecturer in Business Management within York Business School. Course Lead for BA (Hons) International Business.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

As of March 2021 I am a member of the ESRC-funded SECT:OR project. Involved in the original bid proposal to UKRI's Covid Rapid Response research call, the SECT:OR (Small Enterprises in Covid Times: On Regulation) project is a mixed-methods response to the changing regulatory landscape that small businesses have had to adapt to since March 2020. The aim is to better understand how small businesses encounter, experience, and negotiate regulatory change, so that policy makers can better tailor regulation and guidance to ensure its accessibility to businesses. As part of the project we are designing a large scale survey in conjunction with the FSB, and will then be conducting semi-structured interviews with participants.Prior to 2021, my role involved working for Dr. Fiona Whitehurst on the Captured research project. I was responsible for scoping and developing a systematic review paper on employer-sponsored volunteering, and in 2020 I helped design and conduct a small-scale study looking at small business owners' response to COVID-19. This pilot study served as the basis for the SECT:OR project as initial analysis showed the difficulties small businesses were having negotiating and keeping up with the pace of change in regulation.

University Of York, York

GTA/Tutor on several modules within The York Management School. These include Solving International Management Problems, Behaviour in Organisations, and Qualitative Research Methods. I have taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The work involved planning and delivering seminars to students, and facilitating small-group learning.

York, United Kingdom

My thesis is titled Entrepreneurial Communities of Practice: Community, Inclusion, and Gender in the UK Startup Industry. I completed my thesis in 2018 and successfully defended it with no corrections in November 2018. My research project is an ethnographic study exploring how the work of startup founders and employees is done within a coworking space hosting IT startups and SMEs. Taking an interpretivist approach, I explore processes of community, participation, and gender, in order to better understand who gets included in entrepreneurial communities of practice, and how exclusionary practices work. More broadly, I am interested in demonstrating how inclusion to, and exclusion from, the IT industry, and startup entrepreneurship, is mediated at a communal level, the extent to which this might explain the deficit of female entrepreneurs, and the ways in which non-technical, relational work (done primarily by women) is rendered invisible. My primary research interests are communities of practice, entrepreneurship, innovation, and gender.

Harrogate, United Kingdom

We are a specialist Permanent and Contract IT recruitment agency, focussing our efforts on sectors such as Microsoft Development, Opensource Development, Software Testing and Legal IT Recruitment.CONEX Europe have built up a strong network of clients who come to us with repeat business time and time again, due to the quality of service that they receive.When recruiting for technical staff it is of key importance to ensure that, as a client, you recruit a candidate that is technically strong. We carry out testing and reference check candidates to ensure that the process is as quick as possible for you.

A 360 degree role in an exciting young company providing wholesale fixing solutions to the construction industry. Key roles included arranging and attending sales meetings, talking to customers, providing product support, developing and maintaining the company website (using a magento framework), producing marketing material and general office administration.

York

Part time role during my time at university. Provided support management for night and day shifts at a busy and popular delivery restaurant, including staff and shift management, QA, till management, resource allocation, stock control and providing outstanding customer service.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Business Administration And Management, General, Pass (No Corrections)

My PhD was an ethnographic study of startup entrepreneurs, looking at the relations between learning, inclusion, and community. Startups.

The York Learning And Teaching Award, Education, Pass (Awarded Outstanding Portfolio Award)

An HEA-accredited interdisciplinary 20-credit Masters-level Postgraduate programme provided by The University of York. The aim.

Management (Ma), Distinction

Distinction awarded, with an average mark of 76%. Finished top of the class in a number of modules, and finished top of the class.

Ba(Hons), English & Related Literature

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