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Women in STEM Entrepreneurship Project

British Council Grant ID: TNE2025-1001

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Project Overview

This transnational education initiative, based in Egypt, empowers and mentors women in STEM. CEM-STEM uses a hybrid, gender-transformative educational model, giving participants entrepreneurship skills, networks, and resources to launch new ventures. Designed for institutional embedding, its materials and methodologies provide a pathway for sustainable scalability and long-term societal impact.

Aim and Methodological Approach

The research is currently in the data-gathering stage and aims to understand how entrepreneurship education can bridge the gap between academic learning and practical enterprise development. The project emphasises contextually appropriate forms of entrepreneurship rather than high-growth Western start-up models.

Team members

Resources

  1. Goumaa, R., and Simba, A. (2026). Why small or big? Problematizing emancipation discourse in non‐Western women's entrepreneurship. Gender, Work and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70194 (Open Data Source)
  2. Raiden, A., Goumaa, R., and Mazhar, M. U. (2025). Embedding ethics, responsibility and sustainability in the curriculum within a masters in management programme. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-07-2024-0441
  3. Goumaa, R., and Anderson, L. (2024). Developing critical reflection in asynchronous discussions; the role of the instructor. Journal of Management Education. 48(3), pp.427-458.https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629231215245
  4. Goumaa, R., Hay, A., and El-Ayouby, L. (2023). Developing responsible management in the Middle East and North Africa Region: reviewing PRME progress. Journal of Management Development, 42(4), 277-296. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-01-2023-0019
  5. Goumaa, R. (2020). Teaching reflective practice from within classroom experience: implications to faculty development. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1). https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.11899abstract
  6. Goumaa, R., Anderson, L., and Zundel, M. (2019). What can managers learn online? Investigating possibilities for active understanding in the online MBA classroom. Management Learning, 50(2), 226-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618800602

  1. Raiden, A., Mazhar, M., Rae, R., Goumaa, R., & Molthan-Hill, P. (2024, April 11). Embedding ethics, responsibility and sustainability and the UN sustainable development goals in the curriculum within a Masters in Management programme at Nottingham Trent University [Presentation / Talk]. Symposium on Sustainability Teaching in Higher Education – Approaches, Methods and Perspectives, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
  2. Goumaa, R., Simba, A., Wang, Y., & Elayouby, L. (2024, September 2-6). Egyptian women entrepreneurs in the digital technology era: a social change perspective [Paper presentation]. British Academy of Management Conference 2024, Nottingham Business School, NTU.
  3. Goumaa, R. 2019. Teaching reflection from within classroom experience in a work-based learning environment: implications for developing the management educator. In: 20th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, Nottingham, UK, June 2019
  4. Goumaa, R. and Hay, A., 2018. Critical learning in the on-line classroom: an action learning approach to instructor development. In: Eleventh International Conference on Networked Learning, Zagreb, Croatia, 14-16 May 2018.