Edita Petrylaite is Senior Lecturer in Strategy. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She holds a PhD in Business Management from Northumbria University and also has a BA, MA and MSc.

Edita leads a large full-time undergraduate Business Management programme which prepares students for various business and management roles across a range of business functions. Her responsibilities involve a day-to-day management of the programme and a positive student learning experience. Prior to this, she led three undergraduate distance learning programmes – Leadership and Management, Business and Management, and Human Resource Management.

Edita's research interests include gender, consumer behaviour, leadership, entrepreneurship,  entrepreneurial marketing and strategy. She explores the socio-cultural impact on consumer behaviour and looks at how gender shapes consumer practices. She is also interested in the entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurial marketing and entrepreneurial leadership aspects. She collaborates nationally and internationally with the GETM3 project members in the area of entrepreneurial talent management.

Edita presents her research in marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship conferences, namely, Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship  (ISBE) and European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE).

Edita is happy to take PhD candidates who have similar research interests. 

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