Dr Puspa Jirel DBA, MBA, BSc Hons

Lecturer in International Business Management

Puspa completed her DBA from the University of the West of Scotland and started her academic career in 2021. Puspa worked as a Business Management lecturer at the London School of Science and Technology before joining the University of Greenwich. As an experienced business owner for six years, she knows how to run a small business.

Being kind, humble, and real with people is something she strives to do. Her passion for life and desire to learn from it inspires her to do all that she can in life.

Business and management

Business and management studies

Responsibilities within the university
  • Teaching and tutorial guidance
  • Research and other scholarly activities
  • Administration and related activities.
  • Module Leader
  • Personal Tutor

Awards
  • Received UWS Voluntary Recognition Award for leadership in 2017
  • Received Collegiate Ambassador for peace award for leadership, leading as an example, dedication towards studies, activities, and principle lifestyle from Student Peacebuilding Corps in 2007

Recognition
  • Professional member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
  • Member of IGI Global: International Academic Publisher

Research / Scholarly interests
  • Her research interests include social entrepreneurship, sustainability, and circular economy.
  • The focus of her research is on the role of social entrepreneurship in sustainable development in Nepali communities.
  • In addition to presenting her findings at conferences and seminars on social entrepreneurship, she organized the first UWS London Campus Series seminar inviting Nepalese social entrepreneurs.
  • Puspa is a member of the Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) and recently attended the Summit of Summits: Business as Unusual.
  • She is also a member of the Scholarship Excellence in Business Education (SEBE) at the University of Greenwich.

Recent publications

Managing Uncertainty in Small and Micro Social Enterprises: A Cynefin-Bricolage Framework. In: Handbook of Research on Value Creation for Small and Micro Social Enterprises

Presentations

Participated in the 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise and presented the paper entitled “The entrepreneurial social innovation in its-social value creation while satisfying value capture: a case study-based exploration