Dundalk IT lecturer awarded major publishing contracts

Professor Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) in north Louth, has been awarded two major book contracts from international academic publishers.

World-renowned publisher, Oxford University Press has appointed Colette to curate and edit their prestigious international research text – The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship & Gender. Colette will commission and compile a set of detailed, extensive reviews of the field by the world’s top scholars across a range of sub-topics within the area of entrepreneurship and gender research. Entries will be authored by established scholars who are specialist researchers in their discipline area.

In addition, the award-winning, global publisher Edward Elgar has appointed Colette to lead a small team of editors to compile the Elgar Encyclopaedia of Gender & Entrepreneurship. This text will focus on short, encyclopaedic-style entries highlighting both established and emerging research areas in the field.

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The book will especially seek to platform early career academics or PhD students who, supported by their supervisors, are conducting international research at the vanguard of the field. 

Both books will be managed in parallel and will act as major reference texts for academics and researchers worldwide.

Colette commented: “I am thrilled to be awarded these two complementary contracts from such internationally renowned publishers. I see these projects as legacy texts that will serve as valuable reference points for future scholars for years to come.

"I am particularly excited to have an opportunity to work globally across international borders to learn about and highlight the excellent scholarship that is being built by research colleagues, some of whom I am yet to meet. What an honour to be part of these exciting developments.”