Based at Murray Edwards College but open to all women undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdocs and researchers at the University, as well as recent graduates.
This free programme, which ran for the first time in March 2025, will help you find out if enterprise is for you as you join our exciting weekend intensive course. In a supportive environment, you’ll work with other course members to form teams and develop and test out a business idea with the support of experienced mentors. Previous participants said they gained confidence and really learnt to believe in themselves and their ideas. They understood where to start with an idea and left with a clear direction for their business.
What the 2026 weekend course will cover:
- Creating a business concept
- Building a team
- Identifying a market for your proposed product or service
- Researching the competition
- Commercialising academic research
- Pitching your business idea
- Protecting your intellectual property
- Networking effectively