Staff profiles

• Relationship marketing and supply chains
• Supply chain risk
• Women entrepreneurship
• Risk and small business ownership

• DTI Small Business Service
• The North West development Agency
• ERDF
• ESRC

• 2010 Women owned SMEs: a sectoral investigation of marketing SMEs with Dr Carley Foster
• 2010 HEIF STREAM 1 SME Coping strategies for market turbulences during the current recession in the East Midlands with Dr Michael Zhang and Professor David Smith
• 2010 The realities of researching marketing in Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SME's) SPUR2SUCCESS with Dr Carley Foster
• 2009/10 Various SIS/Ingenuity interventions with SMEs in the East Midlands Area

• Director/Trustee and VP for Marketing and PR of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).
• Founder of the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRIM); a collaborative network involving 30 researchers from major universities across 10 countries. The book that emerged from the ISCRIM network, and edited by Clare, Groundbreaking, by Professor Martin Christopher, at Cranfield University.
• Member of the Association of Business Schools' Third Stream Committee.
• On the editorial boards of Management Decision; Cyprus International Journal of Management, and the Journal of Internet Research,
• Editorially involved in special editions of the  Service Industries Journal, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Management Research News, International Journal of Operations and Production Management
• Grant reviewer; BAM/ESRC and IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Track leader for Women's Entrepreneurship at the 2005 ISBE International Conference. BAM 2009/2010 Gender and Management and Entrepreneurship Tracks Reviewer
• Won the 2001 Emerald Highly Commended Award for the paper 'The Information-Risk Conundrum' Marketing Intelligence and Planning Vol.19 (1) pp. 29-37 ISSN 0263-4503.
• Chartered Member of the Institute of Marketing

Clare has supervised a number of students through to PhD completion in the areas of entrepreneurship, services marketing and risk, and has acted as an external examiner for PhD and MPhil candidates in marketing and entrepreneurship.

She is particularly interested in supervising students who wish to pursue research in the areas of supply chain risk, women's self-employment, entrepreneurship and risk. She favours qualitative methodological approaches, especially case study research.