IPA PhD Researcher. Research Area. IPA & Female Entrepreneurshi

Edicleia Oliveira is a researcher currently pursuing a PhD at Technological University Dublin. Her primary focus is on investigating women entrepreneurs' interactions with Government agencies in Ireland, using a feminist phenomenological approach through an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Edicleia actively contributes to the academic community by presenting her research at prestigious international conferences. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Management & Marketing and a Bachelor's Degree in Tourism and Events Management. She is also engaged in teaching as an Assistant Lecturer at Technological University Dublin.

Research Interests

Women’s entrepreneurship; feminist phenomenology; IPA; embodied leadership; creative and cultural industries.

Publications

Gavigan, S., Cipris, K., Cooney, T. M., & Oliveira, E. (2024). The relationship between entrepreneurship training and emancipation of rural women: How does it differ according to marital status? In G. McElwee & R. Smith (Eds.), The De Gruyter handbook of rural entrepreneurship in developing economies: Research, policy and practice. De Gruyter. (Forthcoming)

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2023, in progress). Introducing feminist phenomenology as an alternative to the Cartesian dualism legacy in women’s entrepreneurship research. Manuscript in preparation.

Oliveira, E., O'Reilly, C., Madi, I., Sharma, S., & McQuillan, D. (2023, in progress). Exploring impostor syndrome in academic writing by female early career researchers through reflexivity. Manuscript in preparation.

Oliveira, E., & Basini, S. (2023, in progress). Re-framing the cultural and creative industries as a creative ecology: Sustainability and policy development. Manuscript in preparation.

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2023, under review). Framing a feminist phenomenological inquiry into the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Oliveira, E. (2021). Developing an authorial voice as a second language researcher. In D. McQuillan (Ed.), Academic Writing for Business Researchers: A Peer-led Student Handbook Series - Volume 3: Finding your voice in academic writing (Vol. 3, pp. 41-43). Technological University Dublin.

Oliveira, E. (2020). Bricolage as a framework for interdisciplinary writing collaboration. In D. McQuillan (Ed.), Academic writing for business researchers: A peer-led student handbook series - Volume 2: Co-authoring strategies in business research (Vol. 2, pp. 24-26). Technological University Dublin.

Oliveira, E. (2020). Writing interesting academic articles in the business domain. In D. McQuillan (Ed.), Academic writing for business researchers: A peer-led student handbook series - Volume 1: Writing for academic journals in the business domain (Vol. 1, pp. 6-8). Technological University Dublin.

Conference Papers

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2023). Exploring the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs of gendering processes and practices within government enterprise support agencies, RENT Conference, Gdansk, Poland.

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2023). How can feminist phenomenology inform Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis research into the lived (embodied) experiences of women entrepreneurs?, World Conference on Qualitative Research - WCQR, Algarve, Portugal.

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2022). Framing a novel inquiry into the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs through feminist phenomenology, Diana International Research Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Oliveira, E., Basini, S., & Cooney, T. M. (2021). How can feminist phenomenology inform a gender perspective on embodied entrepreneurial leadership, RENT Conference, Turku, Finland.

Other Groups and Projects

Entrepreneurial Embodied Leadership Course (in development)

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Community of Practice – Technological University Dublin

Theory-U Hub for Ireland

Entrepreneurship Group – Women of Brazil, Ireland