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Email:: P.Pathak@soton.ac.uk

Dr Pathik Pathak BA MA PhD (Warwick)

Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Director, Social Impact Lab

From the Curriculum Innovation module Social Enterprise to our International Social Innovation Challenge, my aim is to foster 'borderless' leadership skills among our students: blending entrepreneurship, innovation and problem-solving skill sets.

I am currently Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/silab)

I am passionate about innovation in Higher Education, and I produced the Spark India social enterprise camp in collaboration with IIM-Ahmedabad, which was a finalist in the Guardian Higher Education Awards (2015). I also convene the Curriculum Innovation Module Social Enterprise, the first pan-university module in social entrepreneurship available in the UK.

As Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab I lead the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship. This includes consultancy for universities, governments and corporate business on social entrepreneurship and leadership as well as collaborative programmes such as the International Social Innovation Challenge Series and training courses.

My current research is a cross-cultural exploration of social entrepreneurship and discourses of employability in global higher education. I am interested in the motivations behind the growth of social entrepreneurship among young people, how universities are responding, and what this says both about the graduate labour market and skills futures.

As a result of my work in social entrepreneurship education, I have been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samann in 2015 for outstanding contributions to education.

You can view my blog here, and tweet @pathik10.

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Research interests

My current research is a cross-cultural exploration of social entrepreneurship and discourses of employability in global higher education.

The research explores trends in the UK, North America, and India.

I am interested in the motivations behind the growth of social entrepreneurship among young people (both through grassroots action and organised societies) and how universities are responding both within and outside the curriculum. The research seeks to illuminate transformations in the graduate labour market and skills futures.

Research project(s)

Co-operative social capital? Mapping emergent connectivities across communities

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Articles

Book

Pathak, P. (2008). The future of multicultural Britain: confronting the progressive dilemma. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Pathak, P. (2018). Beyond business as usual: The transformational potential of challenge-based education. In Social Impact Lab (pp. 1-60). University of Southampton.
Pathak, P. (2014). Social entrepreneurship, governmentality & the Left. In S. Grant, & H. Douglas (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise: Concepts in Context Tilde University Press.
Pathak, P. (2007). Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. In D. Dabydeen, J. Gilmore, & C. Jones (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford Companions). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Pathak, P. (2007). Stuart Hall. In D. Dabydeen, J. Gilmore, & C. Jones (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Black British History Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

Conferences

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Willis, R., Khambhaita, P., Evandrou, M., & Pathak, P. (2014). Satisfaction with social care services among South Asian and White British groups. London, GB: National Institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR).

Working Papers

Khambhaita, P., Willis, R., Pathak, P., & Evandrou, M. (2017). Recruitment of South Asian research participants and the challenges of ethnic matching: age, gender and migration history. (Centre for Research on Aging Discussion Paper; No. 1701). University of Southampton.
Willis, R., Khambhaita, P., Pathak, P., & Evandrou, M. (2014). Satisfaction with social care among South Asian and White British groups. (Centre for Research on Ageing Briefing Paper; No. 4). Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Willis, R., Khambhaita, P., Pathak, P., & Evandrou, M. (2014). Satisfaction with social care services among South Asian and White British groups. Southampton, GB: Centre for Research on Ageing.
McGhee, D. P., Pathak, P., & Freeman, J. (2012). Social Capital Project - research review. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.

I currently convene the Curriculum Innovation module Social Enterprise and the second year module Race & Ethnicity in Society.

I would be keen to supervise doctoral researchers in any of the following areas: social entrepreneurship in development, social entrepreneurship and diversity, the sociology of higher education, graduate employability (with a geographical focus on Asia), the social construction of leadership, and qualitative approaches to social impact evaluation.

Dr Pathik Pathak
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number: 58/4083

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