While her current role is in entrepreneurship education, Harveen Chugh’s first academic passion was in molecular biology. Since graduating from Birkbeck with a Bioinformatics Master’s, she has gone on to teach at Royal Holloway, Imperial College London and the University of Warwick, as well as to co-found the Network for Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs.

Alongside this, she continues to work on entrepreneurial development activities at Birkbeck and has worked on the Pioneer programme, Birkbeck’s enterprise development initiative, and the Ability programme, Birkbeck’s career development support initiative for students who are neurodiverse or have a disability.

On her work with budding entrepreneurs, Harveen has said, “What drew me to the area is the mindset you can create by encouraging entrepreneurs’ new ideas and innovation … With a little bit of a nudge or guidance in the right direction, those can really go somewhere.”