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Dr Pathik Pathak BA MA PhD (Warwick)

Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Director, Social Impact Lab

My mission is to nurture world-class social impact leaders at the University of Southampton, and through the Social Impact Lab, to catalyse social innovation in Southampton and Mumbai

I am currently Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab

I am passionate about innovation in higher education, and I have pioneered the use of challenge-based education .

As Founding Director of the multi award-winning Social Impact Lab I lead the University’s international work on social entrepreneurship. This includes leading a team which delivers a range of activities for our students, including the Social Enterprise module, Spark India, the Social Impact Leaders Speaker Series, our Placements scheme, our in-house Ventures and mentoring start-up social entrepreneurs.

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.

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Social Impact Lab

Our mission is to develop effective models and nurture world class leadership for social impact.

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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

Reports

Dickinson, A., Donovan-Hall, M., Kheng, S., Wiegand, S., Wills, G., Ostler, C., ... Metcalf, C. (2019). Technologies to Enhance Quality and Access to Prosthetics & Orthotics: the importance of a multidisciplinary, user-centred approach. Southampton: University of Southampton. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P0014
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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