Professional activities
Aparna is associated with the Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University of Liverpool and is a keen advocate of entrepreneurial education across disciplines at varied levels of education.
Aparna is a facilitator at the Help to Grow initiative. Her expertise in this area revolves around organisational innovation designs, and equitable wellbeing. She welcomes interests from entrepreneurial/small and medium sized social enterprises/research oriented enterprises who would like to avail her consultancy.
In her free time, she likes to paint and exhibit her work in local galleries, and along with a group of enthusiastic neighbours/board members, she volunteers at the management company that oversees her resident apartment building operations.
From 2023-2026, Aparna was the PGT Lead at SIBE and the DoS for the MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management programme.
Selected Professional Activities
Editorship
- Work, Employment and Society (Invited Editorial board member, 2026 - 2030) (Editorship)
Student Recruitment or Widening Participation
- Open Day (Student Recruitment or Widening Participation)
Conference Roles
- Innovation across boundaries-Research designs for ECRs at Innovation across boundaries Session co-chair
Editorships
- Work, Employment and Society (Invited Editorial board member, 2026 - 2030)
Event Roles
- ISBE Early Career Researcher Research Design (Workshop)
Examination Roles
- University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- Early Career Research Special Interest Group Chairperson-ISBE (2020 - 2022)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- PGT Lead SIBE (Department, 2023 - 2026)
- Director of Studies MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (Department, 2023 - 2026)
- Academic Programme Director- Help 2 Grow (School / Institute, 2022 - 2025)
- ULMS Ethics Committee member (School / Institute, 2020 - 2022)
Media Appearances
- Life beyond the fairytale world-Reflections on an immigrant academic woman, Inkpot hub
Professional Body Memberships
- (Ordinary member, 2016 - present)
Publication Reviews
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Journal of Knowledge Management, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Business Strategy and the Environment, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Organization and Environment: international journal of ecosocial research, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Industrial and Corporate Change, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer (Ecological Economics, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Management Decision, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer (Thunderbird International Business Review, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer, Invited (Journal of Strategy and Management, Pre-publication)
- Ad-hoc reviewer (Frontiers in Psychology, Pre-publication)