Afreen Huq

About

Afreen Huq is Professor at the School of Management in RMIT University. Her research in women’s entrepreneurship has a strong empirical base and is cross disciplinary in approach with an emphasis on impact. As a researcher she specializes in how gender identity and socio-cultural factors influencing the aspiration, acceptability and feasibility of business-ownership shape women’s entrepreneurial behaviour and approach to growth. Afreen researches this phenomenon on women entrepreneurs in both developed countries as well as in culturally restrictive societies. She is also interested in exploring identity reconstruction, socialisation, and resilience of migrant and refugee women entrepreneurs. Afreen has 20 years of teaching and research experience in the discipline of management and entrepr