Professor Eleanor Shaw is an Associate Principal with responsibility for the University’s entrepreneurship strategy, 'Strathclyde Inspire'. She is also Director of Strathclyde Doctoral School.

Eleanor joined Strathclyde in 2001 first, with the Department of Marketing before joining the HCE in 2012 of which she become Head in 2013. She went on to become Vice Dean for Knowledge Exchange and Senior Vice Dean of Strathclyde Business School. In January 2020, Eleanor became an Associate Principal and joined the University’s Executive Team.
Eleanor’s research is focused on the practice of entrepreneurial networking and the relationship between this and firm growth. She is particularly interested in entrepreneurial diversity and her work on women’s entrepreneurship, graduate entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and creative entrepreneurship is published in leading journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Human Relations and International Small Business Journal. Eleanor’s research has been funded by the ESRC and EPSRC as well as a range of private sector organisations including Barclays and agencies including Scottish Enterprise, the Cabinet Office and Glasgow City Council. She is currently a Co-I of the ESRC-funded ProPEL Hub (Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning) - a major new initiative designed to support improvements in productivity through enhanced workplace practice and employee engagement that is also supported by CIPD.

Eleanor is an inclusive entrepreneurial leader with more than 25years of experience of enhancing business growth through encouraging founders to realise the benefits of liberation and of working on rather than in their business. She is co-designer of the Growth Advantage Programme (GAP) - a leadership and growth programme for ambitious entrepreneurs committed to growing their business through innovation, a commitment to values and an inclusive leadership style. GAP was recently fully endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute and is one of only two leadership programmes in the UK to be designed and delivered by faculty and entrepreneurs.

Complimenting her research and teaching interests, Eleanor sits on the Council of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABs), the Small Business Charter (SBC) Management Board, the People, Talent and Leadership Committee, ScaleUp Institute and is a trustee of the Beatson Cancer Charity.