Contemporary Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Context

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is an associate professor at York St John University. Russ also acts as a consultant and author alongside running several businesses when not at the university. Russ's experience is in the music industry and as an academic in music production practice, creative business and entrepreneurship. Russ leads the Executive MBA programme at York Business School and is a seasoned author with Routledge, including the Innovation In Music series of books linked to the conference of the same name.

Mark Marrington is an associate professor (Music Production) at York St John University, among whose primary research interests are the history of record production and classical music recording. His recently published book Recording the Classical Guitar (2021) won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

Jenny Hall is a senior lecturer at York St John University, UK. As a cultural geographer, she specialises in the geographies of tourism, leisure, sport and heritage. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws from across the social sciences. Issues of sustainability and social and ecological justice are central to her work, and she has focused on the intersectional experiences of inequality in adventure. Working with public agencies, her research has influenced policy in mountaineering organisations in the UK.

Emily Beaumont is an academic and business owner, residing in Plymouth, Devon, UK. As an academic, Emily has studied at some of the leading higher education institutions in the UK, including the UCL, the University of Exeter and Loughborough University. She has dedicated her teaching and research to the disciplines of enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability, and the quality of her work in this area led her to be voted for President for Enterprise Educators UK (2021-2023). She was awarded with Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.