Dr Christopher Carter

BSc (Hons) (York), MSc (Nottingham), PhD (Nottingham), UoN 30 credits of PGCHE (2001-current) (Nottingham PGCHE (30 credits) )

Department: Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Centre/Institute: HGI
E-mail: christopher.carter@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8466062
Location: B36 (South Building, Jubilee Campus)

Dr Chris James Carter holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of York (BSc Hons), a Masters in Occupational Psychology from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, University of Nottingham (MSc Distinction), and a PhD in Computer Science from the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Nottingham. Chris is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Chris has experience of working with a range of diverse, multicultural research teams across industry and academia, and is heavily engaged with his respective communities of practice, having developed a wide network of multi-disciplinary research collaborators and small-medium enterprise founders. He has held the role of Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Nottingham University Business School since July 2016, was Co-Director of MSc Entrepreneurship Programmes between 2018 and in 2023, and is currently the Departmental External Engagement Director (DEED) for the Haydn Green Institute (HGI) for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Chris has also held the roles of Co-SIG Chair for Organisational Psychology at the British Academy of Management from September 2016 to July 2018 and has served as Social Media Advocate for the EPSRC-funded Digital Economy Network (DEN). In addition to his research, Chris has extensive teaching experience within a Business School environment at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, MBA and Executive MBA levels, delivers Executive Education programmes with external clients, and helps to mentor nascent enterprises within the University of Nottingham's Ingenuity Lab. He has acted as an External Advisor on the development of undergraduate Business School programmes for UK-based universities and is currently an Associate Editorial Board Member for the Entrepreneurial Research Journal.

To date, Chris has had four successful PhD completions (2019; 2022; 2023; 2024), currently supervises three PhD candidates based across Nottingham University Business School and the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, and has been Internal Examiner for two University of Nottingham PhD theses (November 2019; November 2021) and External Examiner for two University of Warwick PhD theses (May 2020; April 2022). He has been External Examiner for the Creative Media and Enterprises MA at University of Warwick (2020 - 2023) and is currently External Examiner for the Full-time and Executive MBA Programmes at the University of Surrey (2023 - current).


Areas of Expertise
Entrepreneurial Creativity; Digital Entrepreneurship; Business Model Innovation; Digital Marketing; Social Media; Online Identity and Reputation Management; Social Media Research Ethics.

 

Recent Publications

The following lists my publications from 2014 to the present day.

Enter a search term into the filter box to only display rows containing that search term. You can also sort columns by clicking on the appropriate header.

Clear Filter Rows per Page: 10 25 50 100 All

Dr Chris James Carter is a University of Nottingham and two-time Lord Dearing Award-winning lecturer with extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, full-time MBA and Executive MBA levels (UK and Singapore). Chris' teaching spans the topics of entrepreneurial creativity, digital identity and reputation management, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, research methods and ethics, and professional research skills.

Chris has extensive experience of delivering content-driven, teacher-centred models of lecturing, as well as interactive student-centred, learning-driven models through the delivery of seminars, mentoring, and professional development workshops. Through these approaches he aims to enhance student experience by encouraging student-lecturer interaction, developing critical thinking skills through group discussion and personal reflection, and providing timely, constructive feedback.

Chris is particularly passionate about the innovative use of technology within the classroom and has received positive feedback from using social media tools such as Microsoft Teams, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Storify and Spotify to build community and support class interactions.

Christopher is module convenor of the following module(s):

MSc

Entrepreneurial Creativity (BUSI4454)


Details of all modules can be found on MyNottingham

Dr Chris James Carter is an interdisciplinary, mixed methods entrepreneurship researcher and educator with a specific focus on studying the interactions between digital technologies and entrepreneurial behaviour. He is especially interested in how individuals, and in particular entrepreneurs, engage in innovative and creative processes within the technological and socio-cultural structures of digital platforms, including social media. This line of research builds upon his PhD work, which adopted an interdisciplinary approach to critically analysing individual and organisational conceptions of digital identity and reputational risk, using a mixed method approach to examine the social psychological, sociological, and technological factors that shape, enable, and constrain the self-regulation of social media use by employees.

Christopher is currently collaborating on the following projects:

• R02642 KTP with Strategic Innovation Limited/INNOVATE
• KTP with STRATEGIC INNOVATION LIMITED/Innovate

Christopher is currently supervising the following Research Students:

Chukwudumebi Okeke
Ramneek Athwal

University Administrative Roles
Director of MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management (Start: 01/01/2023) Member of Senate Review Group for Student Behaviour and Code of Discipline (2019) Academic Consultant for University Staff Social Media Policy refresh (2021)

School Administrative Roles
Departmental External Engagement Director (HGI)