Matthew Draycott | Entrepreneur, Lecturer...Part Time Mad Hatter!

Everything you never wanted...

Hi All Here’s my lesson part of the new EEW enterprise education PGCE module, this session covers entrepreneurial skills and how they’ve been defined from different authors perspectives. It also discusses the difference between enterprise and entrepreneurship, showcases CfEL’s model from Glyndwr and finally signposts to some specific resources. Everything you...

Review of 2011

Hi Everyone I know it’s been a few months since I’ve blogged (personal and professional time commitments have been a bit consuming) but with this article I’m going to make a commitment to writing once a month across 2011 discussing enterprise education, teaching and learning, web businesses and new technology. In this blog I’m going to try and give a brief review...

Enterprise and Entrepreneur...

Hi Guys Want to know more about how I define enterprise and entrepreneurship, then check out my latest video: Thanks Matt

Coaching

I am heavily involved in coaching new entrepreneurs through the start-up process, mainly through my work at Glyndŵr as part of the Zone but also through the Princes Trust and Young Enterprise both of whom I volunteer for on a regular basis.

Projects

So you’ve probably got the idea by now…I do a lot of pretty weird stuff, Here is a selection of some of my favourite projects from the last few years that I’ve been involved in…

Research

One this Page I will be trying to discuss my research; what I am doing, how and why…a short disclaimer though, this is an awkward section to keep up to date.

About Me

Hi, thanks for visiting my blog, if you know the site please feel free to click around and read my latest blog. If this is your first time here, why not take a second to learn a little about me and why this blog exists.

I’m Matt, a 27 year old entrepreneur, lecturer and all round mad creative with a passion for business and education; my life has been a mixture of hard work and opportunity all of which I am immensely thankful for, want to talk about and have trouble keeping track of…hence this blog…all in my own words, expressing just my views.

If you want to know a little bit more about me, well I work at Glyndŵr University in Wrexham as part of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning where I focus on developing our enterprising curriculum, running a few conferences and when I have time some teaching and mentoring.

I have a consuming interest in the teaching of enterprise and entrepreneurship at all levels and like to learn about, write and research in this area when my time allows… I would love to conduct a longitudinal study (p.s. I already know how geeky that sounds) in to the long term career prospects of those who engage in this type of education, but no one will fund me to pursue this crazy dream at the moment.

I have a background working in business and enterprise; from running my own companies to lecturing internationally and managing part of a Local Enterprise Grow Initiative…yep I really do love this stuff

…Oh yes and if I didn’t mention it I am a huge geek; I love movies, music (rock, metal, punk…actually a bit too much to write here) reading and comics …but that’s just filling in the blanks for you.

Peace
Matt