Dr Vicky Mountford-Brown

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Key Research Themes include IDENTITIES and INCLUSION in the context of higher education, enterprise education pedagogy, researcher development, and neurodivergence.

Key Publications

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Rethinking cyber- and cyborg-knowledge for entrepreneurial futures and entrepreneurship education, Valencia, A., Mountford-Brown, V. 5 Nov 2025, ISBE 2025
Situating imposter syndrome in the experience of becoming and being an entrepreneurship educator, Lane, A., Mountford-Brown, V. 24 Jun 2025, In: Education and Training
Situating Imposter Syndrome In The Experience Of Becoming and Being An Entrepreneurship Educator, Lane, A., Mountford-Brown, V. 1 Jul 2025, In: Academy of Management Proceedings
Modelling Contextualised Entrepreneurial Development, Mountford-Brown, V., Newbery, R., Brown, S. 31 Dec 2024, Contemporary Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Context, London, Routledge
The role of enterprise and entrepreneurship education in transformational entrepreneurship: the case of Azerbaijan, Whitehurst, F., Mountford-Brown, V., Sear, L. 9 Jul 2024, Cases on Transformational Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
Threshold Concepts in Entrepreneurship Education and their Implications for Teaching and Learning, Geiger, J., Hatt, L., Mizzi, E., Kriedel, R., Liening, A., Kovács, J., Mountford-Brown, V. 13 May 2023, Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training , Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Zombies, Ghosts and Lucky Survivors: Class Identities and Imposterism in Higher Education, Mountford-Brown, V. 11 Apr 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education , Palgrave Macmillan
The “Jack Wills Brigade”: Brands, Embodiment and Class Identities in Higher Education, Mountford, V. 2018, Higher Education and Social Inequalities University Admissions, Experiences, and Outcome
Talking the Talk and Fitting In: Troubling the Practices of Speaking? ‘What you are Worth’ in Higher Education in the UK, Addison, M., Mountford, V. 1 May 2015, In: Sociological Research Online
Rules of Engagement beyond the gates: Negotiating and capitalising on student ‘experience’, Mountford, V. 2014, The Entrepreneurial University: Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impact., Palgrave Macmillan

PGR Supervision

Laura Kirk Start Date: 01/10/2024
Paula Gahan 'Can’t you just act normal for once?' Women, ADHD, and Entrepreneurship. An Investigation into the Lived Experience of Female ADHD Entrepreneurs Start Date: 01/10/2024
Laura Kirk Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
Paula Gahan 'Can’t you just act normal for once?' Women, ADHD, and Entrepreneurship. An Investigation into the Lived Experience of Female ADHD Entrepreneurs Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025