Clare Schofield is Professor of Business Enterprise and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences. Clare has worked at the University of Wolverhampton since September 2018 where she joined as Director of the Business School. She has had a twenty three year career in higher education working in three universities in two different regions of the UK. She has experience of developing graduates, business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Prior to joining the University of Wolverhampton Clare was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Management at the University of Chester awarded ‘Business of School of the Year and ‘Employer Engagement’ at the 2018 Educate North Higher Education Awards under her leadership. Clare joined the University of Chester in February 2015 as Associate Dean for Knowledge Transfer and Professorial Lead at University Centre Shrewsbury. She had responsibility for research and knowledge transfer, degree apprenticeships, employability though work-based learning and leadership of the undergraduate and postgraduate programme portfolio.

Prior to joining Chester, Clare was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. The Centre was research led and enterprise focused on developing business leaders and supporting SME business growth as well as innovating in enterprise and entrepreneurship education within higher education. Clare was the Academic Director (NW) of the 10,000 Small Businesses Programme funded by the Goldman Sachs Foundation. The programme supported the most ambitious businesses to grow creating jobs and opportunity.

Clare was awarded her PhD in Management in 2006 (MMU, ESRC) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published academic papers on the subject of enterprise education and business growth. She is supervising doctoral candidates in the field of leadership. She is an experienced Director having held roles on the Board of the West Cheshire and North Wales Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Educators UK. She is has held roles on the board of the Telford Business Board and the Black Country LEP Competitiveness Board.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Certified Management and Business Educator

Selected publications:
McNeill, T., Ancliff, V., Schofield, C. and Baines, S., (2014), What drives high growth? The role of the individual entrepreneur in the high growth business. 37th Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference. Manchester, UK (Awarded best paper in track)

Martin, L. M., Warren-Smith, I., Schofield, C. and Millman C. (2013), Exploring SME advice and training needs for entrepreneurial rural firms, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Volume 12 issue 3

Martin L M, Schofield C, Millman, C. and Reddy, S., (2012), White and Male? Constructing entrepreneurs, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Autumn

Martin, L. and Schofield, C., (2011), The media, negative values and graduate enterprise education; Constructing student ideas about innovation and enterprise. Fostering Education and Entrepreneurship. Edited by Dabic, M and Pietrzykowski, M. Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznan, Poland

Martin, L., Schofield, C., Millman, C., Reddy-Sursani, S., (2011), White and male? Constructing student perceptions of entrepreneurs as' other’, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 12, (3), 179-187