Awards 

• 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow, Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, www.globalentrepreneurshipconsortium.org/research/  (awarded 2023)

• Listed in top 2% of scientists worldwide in Business & Management in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 based on citations to my work in a single year (e.g, Ioannidis et al., 2022, Table 1; Ioannidis et al. 2022, Table 1,  Ioannidis et al., 2020, Table 7)

• 2022 Dean's Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Research", King's Business School, King's College London

• 2021 Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award Nominee,  given to " ... articles published five years ago that have had the greatest impact on the field", for Stephan, U., Patterson, M., Kelly, C. & Mair, J. (2016). How organizations drive Positive Social Change: A Review and an Integrative Framework. Journal of Management, 42(5), 1250-1281. 

• Fellow, International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) for 'outstanding contributions to Applied Psychology', June 2018

  • • Fellow profile in Applied Psychology Around the World (APAW), 2022, Vol 4, Issue 4, p. 93 (link)

• Best Paper Award, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Self-employment track for Jun Li, Jingling Qu and Ute Stephan “Self-employment and health: the mediating role of work-related stress”, 2018

• Winner 2016 GLOBE Robert J. House Best Research Paper Award for Stephan & Pathak, 2016, "Beyond cultural values? Cultural leadership ideals and entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Venturing

• Winner 2016 Best Paper Award 'Public Policy', Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) and the Journal of Small Business Management for  Folmer, Rebmann & Stephan, "The Welfare State and Social Entrepreneurship: Insights from a Multi-level Study of European Regions" 

• 2015 GLOBE Robert J. House Best Research Paper Award ‘Highly Commended’ for Stephan, Uhlaner, Stride (2015). “Institutions and Social Entrepreneurship: Role of Institutional Voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations” Journal of International Business Studies (46), 308-331. 

• 2015 Nominee Aston Student Union, Astonish Aston Awards ‘Most Inspirational Academic’

• Winner Academy of Management Best Paper Award (Management Education division) for Balwant, P., Stephan, U. & Birdi, K. Practice what you preach: Instructors as transformational leaders in higher education classrooms, 08/2014

• Journal of Business Venturing Excellence in Reviewing Award (06/2014)

• Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management Distinguished Reviewer Award (08/2014)

• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Outstanding Reviewer Award (08/2014), $500

Funding (total > £3.25 million)

• European Commission, Horizon 2020, “Women Entrepreneurs and their Wellbeing in the Intersection of Gender, Identity and Life-course” (WEWELL) with Dr Magdalena Markowska, PI Ute Stephan, €256,477, starting 06/2024

• British Academy "The social intrapreneur’s journey: Seeking purpose in the corporation"  PI Dr Elisa Alt, Co-Pi Dr Andreana Drencheva & Prof Ute Stephan, 2022, £9,664.38

• TransCampus "Raising entrepreneurs' resilience through recovery: A daily intervention study", co-PI, lead Dr Dominika Wach, EUR 13,000, 2022

• TransCampus "Covid-19, Entrepreneurship, Resilience and Wellbeing", co-PI, lead Dr Dominika Wach, EUR 14,000, 2020-21

• ESRC Impact Acceleration Account “Enhancing performance and well-being in social enterprises”, Principal Investigator. 2020-2022 

• European Commission, Horizon 2020 “Positive Entrepreneurship'" Principal investigator with Dr Przemysław Zbierowski University of Katowice, Poland, EUR 196,454.80, Sept. 2018-March 2021

• European Commission, FP7, “Social Enterprise as a force for more inclusive and innovative societies - SEFORIS", principal investigator for UK, funding EUR 2.5 Million for consortium including KULeuven, Belgium, LUISS, Italy; Hertie School of Governance, Germany; Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; University Aveiro, Portugal; i-propeller and IALab, Belgium; CEFIR, Russia; NPI, China; NESST, Hungary; Unltd, UK; and as advisors Harvard Business School, the OECD, and EVPA)  January 2014 – April 2017. www.seforis.eu 

• Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy & Government Inclusive Economy Unit, UK Government “Identifying Social Enterprise” Principal Investigator, with Dr Emma Folmer, Prof. Mark Hart, Paul Braidford, Steve Lomax & BMG Research, GBP 80,000 (2016-2017), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-enterprise-market-trends-2017 

• Department of Business, Innovation and Skills “The Sociology of Enterprise” Co- principal investigator with Prof. Mark Hart, Dr Nick Theodorakopoulos, Dr Gary Burke and Durham Policy research Institute, GBP 75,000 (2014-2015), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-owners-dispositions-towards-growth 

• Department of Business, Innovation and Skills “Understanding Motivations for Entrepreneurship”, Co-principal investigator with Prof. Mark Hart and IFF Research, GBP 64,000 (2013-2015), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/entrepreneurship-understanding-the-motivations, a systematic review of the entrepreneurial motivations literature was published separately, here http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/25296/1/Understanding_motivations_for_entrepreneurship.pdf 

• British Academy, “Regulatory, psychological and demographic influences on the hiring activity of owner-entrepreneurs” Co-PI with Prof Jason Heyes (PI) and Dr Tim Vorley, GBP 9780, commencing 09/2013. 

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Festival of Social Science, Funding for Dissemination of Research findings “Entrepreneurs as Employers”, with Tim Vorley (lead) and Prof Jason Heyes, GBP  1000, Nov.2013 

• White Rose University Consortium Collaboration Fund funding for White Rose Centre for Employee Ownership (co-applicant for Sheffield with Prof Peter Marsh; lead Prof. Andrew Peddleton, University of York), GBP 11,750 

• Network for Business Sustainability, NBS.net, Canada, “Systematic Review on Business-Driven Social Change” Principle Investigator, CAN$ 25,000, 01.2012-06.2013 

• European Union Erasmus Intensive Program, ”Toward policy relevant entrepreneurship research from a psychological perspective: advanced research methods”, Co-PI , PI Prof Marjan Gorgievski, EUR 25,690, ongoing 

• University of Sheffield Management School, Research Stimulation Fund, “Capturing network capital and capacity: Developing a mobile application based method to research networked behaviours” Principle investigator, Co-PI’s Dr Tim Vorley, Prof Colin Williams, GBP 9,380, 2013  

• University of Sheffield Management School, Research Stimulation Fund, Co-Principle investigator for a project with Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Prof Jason Heyes and Dr Tim Vorley on “Psychological, Demographic and Regulatory Influences on the Hiring Activity of Owner-Entrepreneurs”, GBP 7,699, 2013 

• European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP), Small Group Meeting Grant for international conference “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship”, joint with Dr. Marjan Gorgievski at Erasmus University Rotterdam, EUR 3,500, 2012 

• University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences, Network Stimulation Fund, to host international keynote speaker at “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” conference, GBP 1,800, 2012 

• University of Sheffield Management School, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, ca. GBP 41,000, 2012  

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Festival of Social Science, Funding for Dissemination of Research findings, Evening Business Session “Innovation at Work and in the Community” held on 3. Nov 2011, GBP 700  

• University of Sheffield Management School, Research Stimulation Fund “Success factors of Social Enterprises in the UK and Europe – A panel study” , PI, GBP 5,054, 2011 

• K.U.Leuven preparatory grant for European Research Project Proposal, EUR 2,083, 2010 

• European Union Erasmus Intensive Program “Psychology of Entrepreneurship Research and Education”, Co-PI, PI Prof Martin Lukes, Prague University of Economics,  EUR 46,550, 2010-2011 

• European Union Erasmus Intensive Program “Psychology of Entrepreneurship Research and Education”, Co-PI, Prof Juan Antonio Moriano,  EUR 78,000, 2006-2009 

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Project related personnel exchange with University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, EUR 26,000 2004-2007 

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Project related personnel exchange with Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, EUR 26,000, 2003-2006  

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Project related personnel exchange with University of Katowice, Poland, EUR 27,000, 2003-2006 

In addition, I have received scholarships totalling GBP 10,000 from the German Research Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Dresden University of Technology, the German Academic Exchange Service and e-fellows (McKinsey & Company, German Telekom AG, and Holtzbrinck publisher group).