Could you please describe yourself in a few sentences?
I am Jane Chang born and bred in Malaysia and educated in Australia, Malaysia and UK. Joined University of Westminster in 2008 when my family and I moved to London.
What is your area of academic interest and which courses are you involved in?
My academic interest hovers around entrepreneurship, business strategy and sustainable innovation. My current research is very much in the area of entrepreneurial learning which underpins my teaching philosophy – to transform entrepreneurial knowledge into entrepreneurial wisdom through learning by doing in all my entrepreneurship modules that I conduct. I believe students learn by acquiring knowledge that requires them to engage them in real business activities and transform the knowledge into wisdom through dialogue.
Could you please tell us a bit about the new course on Entrepreneur Business Management?
I am in the process developing a specialist entrepreneurship undergraduate program which will start in September 2014 called Entrepreneurial Business management (EBM). EBM is an exciting, innovative and inspiring program that aspires students to set up and run their own businesses or to be entrepreneurial employees in successful organisations.
It adopts a fresh approach to business management education designed to accelerate students’ development of enterprise attitude, business management competence and entrepreneurial effectiveness through organizational and social approach to learning. Students set up real businesses in teams and learn through managing those businesses. This hand on ‘learning by doing’ approach is designed to produce entrepreneurial graduates who are able to identify business opportunities and develop sustainable ventures. A snap shot of the programme can be viewed:
What makes this programme so different?
- – Hands-on real business management experience
- – Learning from setting, and managing a business through team
- – A dedicated space for team company business
- – A flexible learning programme tailored for individual and team development
- -Coaching and mentoring support system for individual and team development
What was your first job? What did you learn from it?
I worked as an assistant engineer in Monsanto while I was studying my degree in Australia. I learnt that I do not want to be a chemical engineer for the rest of my career life and decided that I should be the mastery of my own destiny and the rest is history
My career spans from being entrepreneur of six successful entrepreneurial ventures, and senior management in multinational manufacturing firms in Australia and Malaysia.
What do you think is special about WBS?
WBS is unique in many ways. Firstly, the school has provided the academic environment to flourish my academic career in entrepreneurship education research. Secondly the school has the collegiate culture where we support each other to unlock our academic potentials. Finally, I feel the school has the vision and strategy and the ability to marshal the appropriate resources to sustain itself as a leading business education HE provider.
What do you think of the social learning platform?
The social learning platform is a place for students to share their knowledge in a very relax way
If you were asked to give one piece of advice to students then what would it be?
I would like students to know how to unlock their own potentials and use them to craft their own destinies.
How do you relax out of work? What are your interests/leisure activities?
I am not a fan of shopping but I enjoy cooking nice meals for my family and friends and I love gardening ….pulling out weeds when I am tense.
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Very knowledgeable tutor and an amazing person. I had a privilege to study entrepreneurship with Jane this year.
One of Westminster’s prized assets. Very fortunate to be taught by a teacher who knows how the ‘real world’ works. Very motivating and likeable nature.
Jane is a real asset to the University. Being taught by her is always exciting and engaging. She has developed many students into up and coming entrepreneurs.
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