Professor Shelley Farrington shares on Sibling Partnerships
Professor Shelley Farrington shares on Sibling Partnerships
About: Shelley is currently a Professor in the Department of Business Management at the Nelson Mandela University and has been employed at the University since 1995. She has lectured both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of Introduction to Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Research Methodology. Shelley has supervised over 40 honours treatise, 14 masters dissertations and 1 doctoral thesis. She is currently supervising 7 post-graduate students. To date Shelley has authored/co-authored 45 accredited journal articles and has presented more than 95 papers at international and national conferences. Fifteen of these conference papers have either been nominated or won best paper or runner-up best paper awards. Shelley has written several chapters in books and is the co-author of a book titled “Starting and managing your own business” which is now in its 3rd edition. She is an avid researcher and currently has an NRF C2 rating. In 2012 and 2013, she was the faculty researcher of the year, and in 2016, the faculty runner up researcher of the year. Her most notable research award was an NMU research excellence award in 2013, for being one of the universities top researchers.
Shelley regularly does both internal and external peer evaluations for the NRF, and acts as track chair and reviews papers for conferences. She is also part of the review board of several journals. She also serves as the external examiner of post graduate research projects for several universities in South Africa. Shelley is actively involved in the mentoring of inexperienced researchers and coordinates the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences RTI mentoring programme. She is also a founder member of the NMU Family Business Unit which continues to undertake research aimed at supporting family businesses in the Eastern Cape, South Africa and Africa. She is the coordinator of a business plan project where together with her entrepreneurship honours students has assisted many entrepreneurs with business plans.Shelley has acted in an advisory capacity to several start-up small family businesses and was also the owner of a family business together with her two brothers for 13 years.
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