Duyen Chu

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Research and Innovation interests

Joining academia after many years working in industry, Dr Duyen Chu is passionate about providing research-informed, inclusive and practical education to enable learners to achieve their potential and transform their lives. He has taught students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including executive learners. His practice is informed and underpinned by his proactive engagements in research, external examining responsibilities for many UK universities and professional bodies such as Advance HE, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Chartered Management Institute, and The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. He is a Fellow of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent Peer Review College, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Enterprising Communities, and a regular reviewer of academic journals, including Decision Support Systems journal and Strategy and Leadership journal. He is a College Academic Lead for Post Graduate Research Studies, a Link Tutor for TNE partner, and an external examiner of a number of UK universities.

Qualifications

Areas of Expertise

Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Creativity
Sustainability
Corporate Governance
Strategy
Digital transformation

Editorship, Professional bodies, Committees & external research impact engagement:

Senior Fellow of Advance HE
Fellow of UKRI Talent Peer Review College
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Enterprising Communities
Member of Chartered Management Institute
Reviewer of Decision Support Systems journal and Strategy and Leadership journal
Member of the Faculty Research Development and Environment Committee
Member of the Faculty Academic Ethics Committee
Research mentor & Session panelist at Lincoln Entrepreneurship & Innovation Colloquium 2025.

Awards:

- Most Collaborative Colleage of the Year (2022, shortlisted)

- Personal Tutor of the Year (2025, nominated)

- Research Supervisor of the Year (2025, shortlisted)

Most recent publications:

Chu, D., Nguyen, H., Ford, N., Zhou, L. (2025) Sustainability education in Business School. Journal of Business Ethics (R&R).
Chu, D., Zhou, Q., and Bogaars, A. (2022) A framework to ensure more inclusive and personalised student employability and career services: Learning from the best. Scholarship Excellence in Business Education.
Chu, D. and Nguyen, H. (2022) Recapping: effective pedagogy to ensure inclusivity and optimise learning and teaching experiences. Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, Vol 15, No 2, 44-58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v15i2.1261.
Chu, D. (2021) Recap: Link, Learn and Like. University of Greenwich Business Faculty Learning and Teaching Festival 2021 Blog series.
Tran, V.T.A., Barnes, I. and Chu, D. (2019) Reconciliation between economic development and sustainability: A case study in Vietnam.
Nguyen, K.L. and Chu, D. (2019) Corporate Governance: The long term impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Capital Structure and Investment of Firms.
Kose, C., Quach, H. and Chu, D. (2019). Equity crowdfunding: success factors in the German context.
Chu, D. (2017) A comparative study on crowdfunding in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Most recent funded projects:

Responsible business in the hyper connected world (2025-2028)
Impact of entrepreneurial attributes on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes (2024-2027).
Net Zero, Energy efficiency and Sustainable Development Goals (2024-2027)
SME, digital transformation and sustainable growth (2024-2027)
SME, digital transformation and strategic management (2024-2027)
Scaffolding, co-creation and inclusive curriculum, assessments, and student experience in higher education (2023-2024)
Enhancing student employability (2022-2024)

Most recent conference presentations:

Digital transformation for sustainable development of SMEs. Conference: British Academy of Management (BAM) 2025.
Net zero and sustainable development goals. Conference: British Academy of Management (BAM) 2025.
Scaffolding and co-creation to enhance satisfaction and academic performance of students. Conference: Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2025.
Scaffolding and co-creation to ensure more inclusive learning experience and performance of students. Conference: Birmingham Business School Education Conference 2024.
Legitimacy of SMEs in a developing context. Conference: European Academy of Management Conference 2024 (EURAM 2024)

External positions

Senior Fellow, Advance HE

External Examiner , De Montford university

Reviewer, Decision Support Systems (Journal)

Reviewer, European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM)

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Enterprising Communities

Reviewer, Journal of Enterprising Communities

External Examiner , Kingston University

External Examiner , London South Bank University

Reviewer, Strategy and Leadership journal

Fellow of the Talent Peer Review College, UK Research and Innovation

External examiner , University of Cumbria

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