Dr Rishikesh Sinha

Rishikesh Sinha

Department of Management
Lecturer in Management

Contact details

Email
r.sinha.1@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@rishiplanet
Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Rishikesh Sinha is a lecturer in Management and part of the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation Group, where his teaching and research are in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation and business strategy.

His teaching philosophy is to deliver an inspirational, engaging and inclusive environment for students’ learning, and to offer students industry-ready knowledge and skills to bring positive change to business and society.

Rishikesh’s current research focuses on the interface between technology, design and society and how it influences innovation in environmental, social and cultural values in the creative and cultural industries.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management, University of Edinburgh, 2021
  • MRes in Management, Open University, 2012
  • MA in Fashion Business Management, University of Westminster, 2010
  • Associate Fellow, HEA
  • P2i (Postdoc to innovator) Certification in Empowering Researchers to Innovate, University of Cambridge (2022)

Biography

Dr Rishikesh Sinha has a background in innovation studies, entrepreneurship and design, and he teaches and researches in these subjects with a particular interest in research on creativity and design in innovation and entrepreneurial process.

Before joining the University of Birmingham, Rishikesh has worked and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where his research focussed on exploring the interface between technology and design and how it influences the innovation process. His interdisciplinary research borrowed from science and technology studies, design and consumption of culture to understand the nature of innovation in the creative and cultural industries.

His current research interest lies in exploring the production of environmental, social and cultural values for sustainable business model in cultural and creative industries.

Teaching

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation DL MBA
  • Entrepreneurship: Business Start-up MSc (Management) Singapore
  • Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship GDBA
  • Dissertation supervision – MBA, MSc, BSc

Publications

Rishikesh Sinha and James Fleck, 2018: Collective ‘Aesthetic Regime’ Through Distributed ‘Semantic Framing’: Proceedings, 2018, https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14251abstract.

SINHA, R. (2021). Aesthetics innovation: an exploratory study into the nature of innovation in the fashion industry. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Edinburgh, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/1148.

SINHA, R. (2012). Design innovation and role of social media in fashion industry: an exploratory study into the nature of design innovation in the fashion industry and the influence of social media. Thesis (MRes) Open University, 2012. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000fffa.