Dr Felicity Kelliher is a Professor of Management Practice and at the Faculty of Business, South East Technological University (SETU), Ireland. She has led the development of key programmes including a Doctorate in Business Administration and MBS in Change Management and lectures at postgraduate and executive level at SETU and Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Shanghai University China. An experienced principal investigator, research supervisor and mentor, Felicity specialises in action research and longitudinal interpretive case methods. She studies management capability development in small and medium sized enterprise (SME) with a particular interest in rural business networks and has engaged with over 1200 SMEs through her research. As co-founder and academic lead of the BRIM-RIKON research centre, she helps lead a team of 60+ researchers and students who work closely with academic and business leaders in the design and delivery of innovative research interventions, and in the exploration of new approaches to capability development and management practice, including living labs. The centre has secured over €15m in research funding since 2007, enabling significant longitudinal research projects. A Fulbright alum, Felicity works closely with colleagues in Ireland, UK, Europe, Canada and USA on a number of funded research projects. She regularly contributes to management theory through publication in top tier international journals and has co-edited/authored three books. Felicity contributes to the wider academic and practice communities; she is past Chair of the Irish Academy of Management and a member of Our Rural Future Higher Education and Research Network, Department of Rural and Community Development, Ireland.