Dorotea Deshishku (MSc)

Business Analyst

Biography

Background

Dorotea Deshishku is a Business Analyst with the Strategic Change Service, supporting large-scale change initiatives that align to the University's strategic objectives and deliver positive outcomes for the institution. 

Previously, Dorotea was a Project Manager at the Roslin Institute, leading a short-term BBSRC-funded project examining mechanisms for evidencing and reporting research culture in eight bioscience research institutes. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Dorotea served as a Policy Advisor leading state youth policy reform initiatives including writing new legislation and developing large-scale development programmes.

Dorotea holds an MSc in Development Studies with distinction from the University of Glasgow, where she received the Adam Smith Scholar Award of Excellence, and a BSc in Business from Minerva University in San Francisco, USA. She is a PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner and an APMG Change Management Practitioner, and has been leading a poverty alleviation project in Kosovo since 2013 on a volunteer basis.   

Qualifications

University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School (Development Studies, MSc, with distinction)

Minerva University (Business, BSc)

Riga Graduate School of Law (EU Law and Economics, 6-week programme)

PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner

APMG Change Management Practitioner

Advanced Dialogue Facilitator

Recipient of the Adam Smith Scholar Award of Excellence

Conference details

Connecting Research Cultures Conference 2025 (Norwich, England) 

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