Lorraine Warren has worked as an academic in Management disciplines for over 15 years, at the universities of Lincoln, Loughborough and currently Southampton, carrying out research and teaching in business systems, entrepreneurship, innovation and new business models. A significant part of her recent work (with Professor Fuller) has been based on complexity theory, with specific interests in how entrepreneurial agency relates to structural context. This includes the development of theoretical and methodological tools and frameworks underpinned by complexity theory that support the analysis and understanding of fast-moving emergent sectors such as the creative industries that are difficult to analyse as new products, services and new patterns of behaviour emerge.

At Loughborough and Southampton, she has worked on processes of knowledge and technology transfer presenting science, technology, business and management concepts to a wide variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences, particularly in the SME/high tech domain. She has a long track record of successful facilitation of workshops and consultancies in a range of sectors; this work has used a range of 'soft' interactive methodologies that support consensus and creativity in very diverse groups of participants.

Website: www.management.soton.ac.uk/people/details.php?Name=LorraineWarren

Email: L.Warren AT soton.ac.uk