ECIC PhD Students

• Mr Gregor Ferguson
• Mr Ronald Grill
• Mr Gary Hancock
• Mr Anton Jordaan
• Mrs Wendy Lindsay
• Mr Matthew McKinlay
• Ms Olga Muzychenko
• Mr Gerard Reed
• Mr Zhiqiang Xia
• Mr Ting Xu

PhD Topic	Mr Ronald Grill A short biography is coming.

PhD Entrepreneurship

Mr Gary Hancock Gary is a lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the ECIC. From an academic perspective, he has taught and developed courses in the areas of small business management, business start up, consulting, and entrepreneurship (both face to face and on-line). He has expertise in a variety of areas including teaching, course development, administration, leadership, student supervision, and student mentoring. From a hands-on business perspective, Gary has experience in starting, operating, and harvesting growth-oriented ventures in franchise and non-franchise environments. These businesses have been in the entertainment, telecommunications, business consulting, and child care industries. He has been asked to comment on education in the entrepreneurship area by BRW, and is has spoken at a number of international conferences. Gary is carrying out PhD research in the field of early stage venture financing. He is interested in the cognitive psychology approach of investors and entrepreneurs who have an affiliation in the early stages of business creation.

PhD Entrepreneurship	Mr Anton Jordaan A short biography is coming.

PhD Entrepreneurship

Mrs Wendy Lindsay Wendy holds an MBA from Bond University, and a Master of Advanced Business Practice from the University of South Australia. Her PhD research – which is longitudinal - focuses on nascent entrepreneur values and entrepreneurial attitude as antecedents of the venture start-up decision.  In addition to values and attitude, Wendy’s research interests include opportunity identification, social entrepreneurship, Indigenous entrepreneurship, and well-being.  Wendy has co-authored a range of conference and journal papers in these areas. Wendy’s academic experience extends to lecturing in the entrepreneurship area at both the undergraduate and MBA levels (face-to-face and online) at The University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, and Bond University.  Wendy’s business experience in Australia and South Africa includes general management in the professional practice environment and, thereafter, through provision of consultancy services to a diverse range of clients.  She has founded/co-founded businesses in the areas of financial management, administration, tourism accommodation, e-learning streaming media, and most recently, a registered training organisation.  Giving air to her creative side, Wendy also founded a successful business offering courses in ceramics, pottery, and painting.  Wendy enjoys community outreach through her membership of Rotary.

PhD Entrepreneurship	Mr Matthew McKinlay A short biography is coming.

PhD Entrepreneurship

Ms Olga Muzychenko Olga Muzychenko is a lecturer at the University of Adelaide Business School where she teaches MBA courses. Her areas of expertise and research interests span across Cross-Cultural Management, Entrepreneurship and International Business. Olga's past research looked at various aspects of internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurship education and training, and cross cultural dimensions of organisational behaviour. Her current research explores psychological dimensions of international entrepreneurship. After commencing her academic career Olga has been retaining a link with the business community acting as a consultant to small and medium sized enterprises in Europe and Australia as well as the Enterprise Development Section of the International Labor Organisation (ILO). Her professional expertise is complemented with experience of working and living in different countries, namely France, Italy, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Russia and Armenia.

PhD Topic	Mr Gerard Reed A short biography is coming.

PhD Entrepreneurship

Mr Zhiqiang Xia Zhiqiang, on a scholarship, graduated with an MBA from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He also completed a Master of Science in Real Estate from National University of Singapore. His academic achievements include recognition from the Chinese government in 1996 when he was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Award. Zhiqiang has worked in both private and public sectors in Singapore and China for over ten years, with strong expertise in business development, corporate strategic planning and project management in a multiple-culture environment. In 2004, he returned to his alma-mater NTU to serve in the China Strategy Group (President’s Office).  Being responsible for strategy formulation and implementation of the China-related special projects and initiatives, he assisted the University in the successful setup and coordination of the two representative offices in Shanghai and Beijing. He received the NTU Nanyang Teamwork Award in 2006. Currently a Senior Assistant Director at NTU Nanyang Technopreneurship Center, Singapore, he co-developed the highly regarded first of its kind Master of Science Technopreneurship and Innovation (Chinese) Program. In the meanwhile he has helped several scientists secure venture capital financing for their technology start-ups. His PhD research focuses on venture capital decision-making while he is also interested in entrepreneurial behaviour and entrepreneurship education.

PhD Entrepreneurship	Mr Ting Xu Xu Ting has a Bachelor in Landscape and a Master in Education. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the ECIC. Xu Ting’s research interests include social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and training, indigenous entrepreneurship and Chinese entrepreneurship. Recently Ting’s research has focused on entrepreneurial self-efficacy in a Chinese context.