DIRI Membership Organization

Becoming a Member

Our members are: 

• Scholars advancing research on gender and women’s entrepreneurship and their businesses.
• Educators and Program Directors sharing best practices and teaching innovations for gender and women’s entrepreneurship.
• Policymakers supporting women’s entrepreneurship through policy development and deployment, data dissemination and advocacy.
• Practitioners supporting the women’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by contributing to research, education and policy.

Through engagement in the Diana International Research Institute

• Members will:
• Connect, learn and collaborate with other members and stakeholders supporting all aspects of women’s entrepreneurship through conferences, events, workshops, webinars, on-line discussions, research paper presentations and other activities. 
• Scholars will:
• Access best practices in researching women entrepreneurs through webinars, mini forums and online resources
• Share and get feedback on personal research at the annual Diana International Research Conference
• Share data as appropriate in order to build more comprehensive data bases
• Learn of relevant and current publishing opportunities related to gender and women’s entrepreneurship, including basic research, as well as those related to education and policy
• Participate in forums focused on career development of women faculty in entrepreneurship
• Educators and Program Directors will:
• Access best practices, teaching materials and pedagogies for educating women entrepreneurs through webinars, mini forums and online resources
• Collaborate with other educators on development of teaching materials, exercises, teaching cases, conference submissions, thought leadership, and program design related to teaching women entrepreneurs and women’s entrepreneurship
• Learn of platforming opportunities including speaking engagements, award submissions, and outlets for practice-based thought leadership
• Policymakers will:
• Learn of leading edge policies and practices on women’s entrepreneurship in a large range of geographical contexts
• Collaborate with other policymakers to share best practices and critique existing and potential policy
• Connect with scholars dedicated to research with implications for policy influencing women’s entrepreneurship
• Practitioners will:
  • Access best practices for educating and advising women entrepreneurs through webinars, mini forums and online resources
  • Learn of relevant research related to gender and women’s entrepreneurship, including basic research as well as those related to education and policy.
  • Learn of possible opportunities to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to move the global agenda to further research and action on women entrepreneurs and their businesses

Membership Benefits

• Communications
• Quarterly electronic newsletter
• Provides information about conferences, opportunities to publish, special issues, journals, new articles, and grant proposals
• Highlights recent publications and accomplishments
• Access to the full Diana Membership Organization Database to connect with local and global likeminded stakeholders working to advance women’s entrepreneurship
• Discounts
  • Discounted registration for mini-forums and conferences
  • Discounted subscription to the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship of $95 per member for full electronic access and 70% off the list price for any members who would like a print subscription (list price is $692).
• Content
• Quarterly virtual/F2F mini conferences covering topics such as:
• Managing Your Career as a Woman in Higher Education in Entrepreneurship
• Publishing Research on Women’s Entrepreneurship
• Learning Best Practices and Teaching Innovations for Women’s Entrepreneurship
• Advancing Policy on Women’s Entrepreneurship
• Writing retreat on women’s entrepreneurship
• Quarterly Conference Calls/Webinars on topics associated with research, education, and policy
• Online resources in the area of research, education and policy

Membership Fee (annual)

• General Fee - $200.00/year
  
  
• Student Fee - $100.00/year
  • Must be enrolled in credit bearing academic program and/or entrepreneurial program
• Non-Profit Institutional Membership - $2,500 / year
  • Guarantees three individuals from the institution membership
  • Two complimentary research conference registrations
  • Opportunity to submit one piece of research for consideration to convert to consumer/corporate output
• Corporate Membership - $3,000 / year 
• Guarantees two individuals from the corporation membership
• Access to one consumer facing research report
• Seat at the Best Practices Roundtable led by DIRI Fellow
• Corporate Membership - $5,000 / year 
  • Guarantees up to five individuals from the corporation membership
  • Access to two consumer facing research reports
  • Access to Implementation Session of Best Practices led by DIRI Fellow
• Optional Fee Based Programs Coming Soon:
• Mini Forums
• Peer Forums
• Senior Faculty Peer Forum
• Junior Faculty Peer Forum
• PhD Mentor Program 

For further information or comments, please email your inquiry to dianamembership@babson.edu.

Mission Statement

The Diana Project™ serves as the overarching platform for research activities, forums and scholarship focusing on gender and women’s entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on business growth, economic development and social change.  The annual ​​Diana International Research Conference provides the platform for researchers to investigate, connect and share a global research agenda. Diana Impact Day is a global convening of the vital stakeholders who are dedicated to changing the landscape of gender and women’s entrepreneurship and seeks to connect research, education, practice and policy to drive change.