Pam Seanor

Teaching: I attempt to create a space in which students can question taken-for-granted assumptions of ideas to better understand practices and to voice their views so that they can engage in creating interventions. Interested in hands-on ways of learning, I invite practitioners in to facilitate ​workshops to share their stories and experiences.​

Research: Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, my research is experimental bringing together critical thinking between entrepreneurship, organisation and society to re-imagine how approaches to enterprise and social enterprise can be different.

My PhD thesis was of narrative and actions between social enterprise practitioners (negotiations between those in existing organisations in the third sector and those acting in local and regional government). My current work is bringing together those in organisations, Arts organisers and academics around the question of How to reframe individual heroic stories of social enterprise?

I also co-led a collaborative research project "Wandering about Bristol" which was supported by a Small Research Grant from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. To capture movement, and moving images, we used film with participants recording their conversations whilst walking around Bristol of what becoming a "green" city meant to them in their practices.

My interest and curiosity in everyday practices and how a practice-based approach can be critical remains central to the above teaching and research practices.

Area of expertise

Entrepreneurship and social enterprise in collaboration with practitioners to consider questions of political and social change and sustainability.​

Publications

Seanor, P. (2018) Of course, trust is not the whole story:narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration. In: Dey, P. and Steyaert, C., eds. (2018) Social Entrepreneurship An affirmative critique. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 159-181. ISBN 9781783474110 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35768 ' Seanor, P. (2018) A space on the side fo the road Creating a space for a critical approach to entrepreneurship. In: Berglund, K. and Verduijn, K., eds. (2018) Revitalizing entrepreneurship education Adopting a critical approach in the classroom. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 99-118. ISBN 9781138213791 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35560 ' Seanor, P. and Dey, P. (2017) In-between-ness: Filming Wanders and negotiating spaces in a ‘green’ city. In: 12th Annual International Ethnography Symposium Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty Manchester Business School University of Manchester, Manchester, England, 29 August - 1 September 2017. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35769 ' Seanor, P. and Dey, P. (2015) Rethinking Bristol: Articulating and contesting ‘green’ imageries of an entrepreneurial city. In: 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2-4 July 2015. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25917 ' Seanor, P. and Bodkin, C. (2015) From A ‘to’ B – Where’s to?: Exploring the alternative spaces in-between in an entrepreneurial city. In: 9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies: Is there an alternative? Management after critique, University of Leicester, UK, 8-10 July 2015. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25919 ' Seanor, P. (2014) Thinking space: Space as a provocation with a pragmatic, yet playful, approach with two feet on the ground. In: 6th International Social Innovation Research Conference, University of Northampton, 1-3 September 2014. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23603 ' Seanor, P., Bull, M., Baines, S. and Purcell, M. (2014) Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 27 (4). pp. 353-368. ISSN 0951-3558 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23595 ' Seanor, P., Haigh, D. and Curtis, T. (2013) Of course trust is not the whole story: Collective narratives to question assumptions of trust in social entrepreneurship. In: 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies, University of Manchester, 10-12 July 2013. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23604 ' Seanor, P., Bull, M., Baines, S. and Ridley-Duff, R. (2013) Narratives of transition from social to enterprise: You can’t get there from here! International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 19 (3). pp. 324-343. ISSN 1355-2554 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23596 ' Haigh, D. and Seanor, P. (2012) Beyond boundaries: Sense-making and fuzzy learning from stories about failures and successes of social enterprises. In: 4th International Social Innovation Research Conference, University of Birmingham, 12-14 Septermber 2012. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23606 ' Seanor, P., Bull, M. and Baines, S. (2011) Context, narratives, drawings, & boundary objects: Where social enterprises draw the line. In: ISBE Conference, Sheffield, 9-10 November 2011. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23607 ' Ridley-Duff, R., Seanor, P. and Bull, M. (2011) Measuring social outcomes and impacts. In: Ridley-Duff, R. and Bull, M., eds. (2011) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory & Practice. SAGE Publications, pp. 230-246. ISBN 9781848601987 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23602 ' Ridley-Duff, R. and Seanor, P. (2011) Leadership and social entrepreneurship. In: Ridley-Duff, R. and Bull, M., eds. (2011) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory & Practice. SAGE Publications, pp. 193-209. ISBN 9781848601987 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23601 ' Ridley-Duff, R., Seanor, P. and Bull, M. (2011) Social and ethical capital. In: Ridley-Duff, R. and Bull, M., eds. (2011) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory & Practice. SAGE Publications, pp. 82-98. ISBN 9781848601987 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23600 ' Bull, M., Ridley-Duff, R., Foster, D. and Seanor, P. (2010) Conceptualising ethical capital in social enterprise. Social Enterprise Journal, 6 (3). pp. 250-264. ISSN 1750-8614 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23597 ' Seanor, P. and Meaton, J. (2008) Learning from failure, ambiguity and trust in social enterprise. Social Enterprise Journal, 4 (1). pp. 24-40. ISSN 1750-8614 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23598 ' Seanor, P., Bull, M. and Ridley-Duff, R. (2007) Mapping social enterprise: do social enterprise actors draw straight lines or circles? In: 4th Social Enterprise Research Conference, London South Bank University, 4-5 July 2007. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23609 ' Seanor, P., Bull, M. and Ridley-Duff, R. (2007) Contradiction in social enterprise: Do they draw in straight lines or circles? In: ISBE Conference, Glasgow, 2007. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23608 ' Seanor, P. and Meaton, J. (2007) Making sense of social enterprise. Social Enterprise Journal, 3 (1). pp. 90-100. ISSN 1750-8614 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23599 ' Seanor, P. (2006) Making sense of social enterprise development. In: 3rd Social Enterprise Research Conference, London South Bank University, 22-23 June 2006. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23610 '