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Meet the professor

Nigel Driffield
How did I get here?
What do I like most about the
job?
What am I most proud of?
“growth”

time
What I love most about the job

The people I work with.
That I can do things that are interesting in a
number of directions:
LEP / Heseltine work;

Applied work – BIS / UKTI / EC projects;
Academic work – doing things that are interesting
from a theoretical perspective, or just interesting –

Eg “who invests in war zones.”
What am I most proud of?

My PhD students;

The people we have brought to ESG;
Being Dean – the fact that when the VC
announced that I was to be Dean for a
while, there wasn’t (as far as I am aware) a
general “WHAT?” from the staff;
How we all did in that year – the fact that people
were willing to get behind me in the way they did
meant a lot to me personally.
Personally

That I changed from being someone who would be
terrified to stand up and speak in public (the idea of
lecturing filled me with terror) – to someone happy
to do this;
“That I did it myself” – my papers are not as addons to famous names;
Four ESRC Awards;
Current Leverhulme Fellowship;
Type “inward investment spillovers” into Google
and it finds me first!

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Meet the Aston Professor: Nigel Driffield

  • 2. How did I get here? What do I like most about the job? What am I most proud of?
  • 4. What I love most about the job The people I work with. That I can do things that are interesting in a number of directions: LEP / Heseltine work; Applied work – BIS / UKTI / EC projects; Academic work – doing things that are interesting from a theoretical perspective, or just interesting – Eg “who invests in war zones.”
  • 5. What am I most proud of? My PhD students; The people we have brought to ESG; Being Dean – the fact that when the VC announced that I was to be Dean for a while, there wasn’t (as far as I am aware) a general “WHAT?” from the staff; How we all did in that year – the fact that people were willing to get behind me in the way they did meant a lot to me personally.
  • 6. Personally That I changed from being someone who would be terrified to stand up and speak in public (the idea of lecturing filled me with terror) – to someone happy to do this; “That I did it myself” – my papers are not as addons to famous names; Four ESRC Awards; Current Leverhulme Fellowship; Type “inward investment spillovers” into Google and it finds me first!