Miller School names its first Engaged Entrepreneurship Scholar

Emily Yeager

The Miller School of Entrepreneurship values cross-campus research collaborations and the formation of inter-disciplinary scholarly partnerships. As a result, the Miller School launched the Engaged Entrepreneurship Scholar (EES). The program intends to extend the research capabilities of its entrepreneurship faculty by leveraging diverse skills and approaches from various scholarly fields.

The EES will collaborate with Miller School faculty on existing research projects, assist with the design of research plans, and engage with process improvement of current research projects and plans. Research may be qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed method and should focus on entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy, entrepreneurship education & pedagogy, program evaluation, microenterprises, rural entrepreneurship, main street and small-town development, and public policy that encompasses much of the scholarly efforts of existing faculty. Potential EESs must have an interest in these fields with ongoing or completed projects and offer complementary research skills.

The inaugural EES is Dr. Emily Yeager from the Recreation Sciences department in the College of Health and Human Performance. Dr. Yeager’s current research focuses on sustainable tourism development with a focus on rural destinations. Emily currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation Sciences at East Carolina University. Emily has served as a teaching and research assistant on many research projects including residents’ attitudes towards the Atlanta Beltline Trail, integrating geographic information systems into resident attitude research, the sustainability of hotel chains, and gender empowerment within tourism.

Previous research has included understanding what kinds of climate and weather tools North Carolina coastal tourism businesses use, North Carolina coastal community perceptions of environmental change, how to change students’ recycling habits at universities, renewable energy use in the tourism industry and economic impacts of festivals on small communities.

She will primarily focus on research regarding the student, community, and regional impacts of the RISE29 program.

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