Roxy Lawton CMBE, Fellow HEA, BA Hons, MBA student

Roxy is The Impact and Evaluation Lead, Enterprise Fellow, HEA Fellow and joined the Centre for Enterprise in February 2016. Roxy works across a series of programmes to support leadership, innovation, business growth, business

start-up and entrepreneurship and has worked within this space for over 16 years.

Roxy is the Project Lead for the ERDF Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry programme, which is a research and innovation programme, with a partnership between Manchester Metropolitan University as the lead, Lancaster University, The University of Manchester, and The University of Salford. As well as Project Manager for the GM High Growth Network programme.

Since 2016, Roxy joined the Centre for Enterprise to develop and establish three of our ERDF programmes to support SMEs within the Greater Manchester and Cheshire and Warrington region. She was then appointed as the Project Manager for the Cheshire and Warrington Business Growth Programme, which supported a range of business start-up, early inception businesses, and more established businesses across the Cheshire and Warrington region. Roxy lead on the delivery for the programme and successfully engage with over 200 business start-up and SME’s within the region.

Roxy has teaching and learning experience, programme design and development, business support, project management and delivery, within a higher education context.

Prior to this, Roxy has project managed the development of apprenticeship frameworks within several sectors mainly construction and the nuclear sector. She has been involved in programmes since her early career to support learning, development, and skills for over 16 years.

Roxy graduated from University of Manchester in 2003 with a BA (Hons) in Religion and Theology and gained her Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice in 2017. Currently undertaking an MBA.