WEWELL_Women entrepreneurs and their wellbeing: understanding the interplay of gender, identity and life-course

WEWell项目是一项创新的多学科研究，通过女性创业背景下结构和代理的相互作用来研究心理健康建设。该项目位于心理学、社会学和管理学的交叉点；并结合了对60位女企业家的定性生活故事访谈和对这60位女性进行的为期14周的纵向定量日记研究。基于这种多方法设计，该项目将调查女性企业家幸福感的驱动因素、动态和环境，并通过此建立新的动态和情境化的女性企业家幸福感理论。对女企业家的关注预计将有助于旨在减少生活不平等的政策相关研究；对福祉的关注将为衡量福祉作为国家发展水平的反映的努力提供新的投入。该项目是一个雄心勃勃的尝试，旨在通过与伦敦国王学院（KCL）的专家导师Ute Stephan教授和德国Mittelstandforschung研究所（IfM）所长Friederike Welter教授共同工作的沉浸式体验，为研究员Markowska博士创造加速专业成长的机会。Stephan教授是应用心理学研究领域的权威专家，也是创业和幸福研究领域（包括新恢复视角）的先驱之一，而Welter教授则是政策研究领域的权威专家，特别是在女性创业的背景下，结合了经济和社会学的观点。非学术实习旨在帮助项目产生更大的影响，并最大限度地学习如何有效地与政策制定者合作。WEWell的结果将与欧洲的研究、经济和社会生活以及政策相关，并将为研究员提供成长轨迹。

The WEWell project is an innovative multidisciplinary investigation of mental wellbeing construction through the interplay of structure and agency in the context of women entrepreneurship. The project is located at the intersection of psychology, sociology and management; and combines qualitative life story interviews with 60 women entrepreneurs with a longitudinal quantitative diary study over 14 weeks of the same 60 women. Based on this multi-method design, the project sets to investigate the drivers, dynamics and circumstances surrounding women entrepreneurs' wellbeing and through this to build new dynamic and contextualized theory of women entrepreneurs' wellbeing. The focus on women entrepreneurs is expected to contribute to policy-relevant research geared towards reducing inequalities in life; the focus on wellbeing will provide new input for the efforts to measure wellbeing as a reflection of national level of development.The project is an ambitious attempt to create opportunities for accelerated professional growth for the researcher, Dr. Markowska through the immersive experience of working together with the expert supervisor Professor Ute Stephan of King's College London (KCL) and non-academic placement host, Professor Friederike Welter, the President of Institute for Mittelstandforschung (IfM), Germany. While Professor Stephan is a leading expert in applied psychology research and one of the pioneers of research on entrepreneurship and wellbeing including new recovery perspective, Professor Welter is a leading expert in policy research, particularly in the context of women entrepreneurship, combining economic and sociological perspectives. The nonacademic placement is designed to help generate greater impact from the project and maximize learning how to effectively work with policy makers. The outcomes from WEWell will be relevant for European research, economic and social life and policy and will provide growth trajectory for the fellow.