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Mokuba is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Leicester Castle Business School at Â鶹ƵµÀ. His PhD Research is in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, investigating Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Prior to joining De Montford University, Mokuba worked at the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship modules. He continues his career development by successfully completing the EntrecompEdu Teacher Training programme developed his professional competences in entrepreneurial education and graduated as an EntrecompEdu Teacher Pioneer in 2020.

As an advocate for innovative educational practices, Mokuba specialise in student-centred teaching approaches and experiential learning, offering a more personalised and engaging educational experience. 

He is active in the research and has a great network of collaborators in the UK and abroad. Mokuba worked at Buckingham Enterprise Unit at the University of Buckingham on a project funded by Enterprise Educators Research Fund - EERPF (2019), developing Impact Assessment Tools for Enterprise Educators in collaboration with academics from Royal Agricultural University, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Derby.

His research interests focus on Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education, Graduate Entrepreneurship , Youth Entrepreneurship , Students Entrepreneurship , Women Entrepreneurship, Informal Entrepreneurship & Necessity Entrepreneurship , Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , Entrepreneurship & UN SDGs. 

Mokuba is an entrepreneurial person, founder of an innovative and award - winning company in security technology, with over 20 years accumulative experience in the engineering, technology, business, and academic sectors. 

• The Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI)
• The Impact Research Group (A cross institutional group of researchers interested in exploring the impacts of enterprising and entrepreneurial education in a wide range of contexts ( Since 2019). 

• Rogers-Draycott, M., Bozward, D., Smith, K., Mave, M., Curtis, V. and Maragh, D., 2024. Does Entrepreneurship Education Deliver? A Review of Entrepreneurship Education University Programmes in the UK. Education Sciences, 14(4), p.361.
• Torkestani, M. S., Johnson, D., Mave, M. Asu, J., Hussain, Z., & Sallah, M. (2024). The Gambia Project: Decolonising Entrepreneurship Education for African Empowerment. Paper presented at the Learning and Teaching Conference: Enhancing the Student Experience: The Challenges, Successes and Opportunities, Â鶹ƵµÀ, Leicester, UK. 
• Bozward, D., Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Mave, M., Curtis, V., Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R., & Adams, N. (2023). Exploring the outcomes of enterprise and entrepreneurship education in UK HEIs: An Excellence Framework perspective. Industry and Higher Education, 37(3), 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222221121298.
• Chisu, C., Coyle, P., Mave, M., Premazzi, V., and Vaillant, Y., 2023. Can graduate entrepreneurshipbe an answer to youth unemployment?, Entrepreneurial Mindset Network. https://entrepreneurial-mindset.exchange.
• Bozward D., Rogers-Draycott, M., Smith, K., Mave, M., Curtis, V., Aluthgama-Baduge, C., Moon, R., and Adams, N. (2021). The Impact of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education on Regional Development. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference. Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff. 28-29 October. Barnsley: ISBE, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 978-1900862-33-2 Oct-2021.
• Assessing the impact of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education:Literature and Policy Project Report. Authors: Kelly Smith, David Bozward, Matthew Draycott, Mokuba Mave, Vic Curtis, Chintaka Aluthgama, Rob Moon and Nigel Adams. Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) Report July- 2020.
• Mave, M. (2019) Investigation into Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Working Paper In 42nd Annual Conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Newcastle, United Kingdom. ISBN: 978-1-900862-32-5 Nov -2019.

• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education
• Graduate Entrepreneurship 
• Youth Entrepreneurship 
• Students Entrepreneurship 
• Women Entrepreneurship 
• Informal Entrepreneurship & Necessity Entrepreneurship 
• Entrepreneurial Ecosystem 
• Entrepreneurship & UN SDGs

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

• MA Global Entrepreneurship
• BSc(Hons) Computer Aided Engineering
• AFHEA

Nomination for Students' Choice Teaching Award 2024 - DMU 

• EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK) – Associate Member - AEEUK ( Academic)
• ISBE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) – Academic Member
• BAM (British Academy of Management) – Academic Member
• NCME (Network for Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs) – Academic Member
• Entrepreneurial Mindset  Network - Academic Member 
• Shine Project - Academic Member 
• COPEMECO (Confederation des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises du Congo)- Business Member 

• EntreCompEdu Teacher Pionner - Bantani Education (Belgium) & University of Wales Trinity Saint David ( Wales) -2021.
• Entrepreneurship for Migrants and Refugees. UNITAR-  UNCTAD, UNHCR and IOM. Geneva (Switzerland) -2021.
• Policymaking: Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development - UNITAR - UNCTAD  - Geneva ( Switzerland) - 2021.
• Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) - 2018

HEInnovate  - Entrepreneurial Teaching & Learning in International Perspective ( Experiential based project) - Belguim, June 2024. Working with academics from Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Turkiye, Bulgaria, Romania, Grece and Czechia.

• International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship (ICTE) - Conference/Coventry University : Developing Early career academic in Entrepreneurship discipline. Coventry. May 2017. 
• 2017 Enterprising Futures (Conference), University of Buckingham. Buckingham, June 2017. 
• Enterprise Educators Conference : Assessing and evaluating entrepreneurial learning. University of Leeds, Leeds. December 2017.
• ICTE & ISBE Think Tank 1. Coventry University, Coventry. March 2018. 
• ICTE Think Tank 2: The importance of Innovation in Transformational Entrepreneurship. Coventry University, Coventry.  March 2019.
• The future of Entrepreneurship, Policy and Practice. ICSB Paris Conference IPAG Business school – Paris – France. April 2019. 

• Professionnalité et employabilité des diplômés – Enjeux et perspectives de création d'emplois. Université Bel Campus – Kinshasa – DRC. June 2019. 
• 42nd Annual Conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Newcastle, United Kingdom. Oct 2019.
• Westminster Higher Education Forum: Entrepreneurship on Campus. London, UK. March 2020. 
• National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE): Best Practices for Teaching Entrepreneurship in an Online Environment. MA-USA. April 2020. 
•  A Higher Education Web Conference Series. Leading in times of global crisis.Business Day Nigeria – Lagos – Nigeria. May 2020. 
• A Higher Education Web Conference Series. COVID-19 and Africa’s HE System: What going on? Business Day Nigeria – Lagos- Nigeria. May 2020. 
• Conference International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (IEEC Online 2020). Sept-2020. 
• Teaching Entrepreneurship Summit- ICTE, Coventry University, Coventry: Demystifying the New Normal for Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa.   December 2020. 
• UNITAR – UNCTAD EVENT. Switzerland: Entrepreneurship and MSME in post COVID-19 resurgence. Geneva. February 2021. 
• Evolve Conference 2021 – Oxford Brookes University – Oxford. January 2021. 
• ICTE/IATE Think Tank – Transformational Entrepreneurship and the post COVID-19 Global Economy – Coventry University, UK. May 2021. 
• UCL Innovation & Enterprise: Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Potential of Doctoral students – University College London, UK. June 2021. 
• Leuphana Transformational Entrepreneurship Days: Transformation of Society through Entrepreneurship, Creating Societal Impact through Entrepreneurship Research, Education and Practice – Leuphana University, Luneburg, Germany. Sept 2021.
• Teaching Entrepreneurship Summit Winter 2021. Making Entrepreneurship relevant to All Students. USA . November 2021. 
• DMU Learning and Teaching Conference, Â鶹ƵµÀ, Leicester. January 2024. 

Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) Resilience - Internal faculty funding from the Faculty of Business and Law, Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (Co - Investigator, 2023-2024)

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• Peer Reviewer - European Scientific Journal ( ESJ)
• Mendeley Advisor - Mendeley Advisor Community
• Representative in the UK, Focal Point - COPEMECO