Dr Hannah Sam

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability Risk Management

The Claude Littner Business School

hannah.sam@uwl.ac.uk

Dr Hannah Sam is a lecturer in sustainability risk management with simulations across economics, sustainability, management and finance related disciplines. She is a co-founder of the Applied Research in Risk Management and Data Analytics (ARMaDA) group at the Claude Littner Business School. She has extensive lecturing experience and is passionate about student mentorship in economics, finance and management careers. In addition, she is a qualified development economist and worked on applied policy research on poverty and inequality.

Qualifications
- Bsc (Hons) in Economics (Fourah Bay College, USL)
- Msc in Development Economics (University of Sussex)
- Dphil in Economics (University of Sussex)
Memberships

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Certified Full Member of the Institute of Economic Development
Mentee - 100 Black Women Professor Now Program by Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN), UWL Collaboration
Member of the Royal Economics Society, United Kingdom

Research

See Dr Hannah Sam's publications list in the UWL Repository.

Research and publications

Academic publications
Sam, Hannah (2021) Three essays on the impact of conflict and disease on household welfare in Sierra Leone. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.
Mendiratta, Vibhuti, Nsababera, Olive Umuhire and Sam, Hannah (2022). The Impact of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in the Comoros: The Experience of a Small Island Developing State. Policy Research working paper, no. WPS 9964, COVID-19 (Coronavirus Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group).
Barry Reilly and Hannah Sam (2022). The Distributional Impact of the Sierra Leone Conflict on Household Welfare (IZAJODM-D-21-00065R2). IZA Journal of Development and Migration
Mendiratta, Vibhuti, Nsababera, Olive Umuhire and Sam, Hannah (2023). The Impact of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in the Comoros: The Experience of a Small Island Developing State, in Johnson-Lans, Shirley (2023) The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality: A Global Perspective. Washington, Palgrave Macmillan.
Other research activities
Internal
Reviewer of the New Vista Journal, University of West London
Member of the Inclusive Reading List Working Group, Claude Littner Business School
External
Short-term consultant at the World Bank, Poverty and Inequality.
Economic Adviser - Research on the impact of the Ebola and COVID-19 on poverty, inequality and the labour market, Ministry of Finance, Sierra Leone.
Conferences

The Lancaster PHD summer school and conference in Development Economics (Poster Presentation); September 17th to 19th, 2018.
The European Development Economics October 25th to 26th 2018.
The Centre for the studies of African Economy (Research Presentation: Paper accepted); March 17th to 19th 2019.
Household in Conflict Network, 15th Annual workshop on New Methods in empirical Conflict (Research paper accepted) 17-18th October, 2019.
Economics Network Symposium - Teaching with Data, United Kingdom, 9th November 2022
16th Annual International Conference on Global Studies: Business, Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Aspects, 19-22 December 2022, Athens, Greece, on the topic: The Impact of the Ebola Virus on Household Welfare and Inequality in Sierra Leone
ISDC - International Security and Development Cente, Germany - Conducting Rigorous Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian Emergencies and Conflict Settings’ training workshop. 14th-16th March 2023
Evolving Higher Education virtual conference, McGraw Hill, United Kingdom. 20th-21st March 2023
Invitation for Paper Presentation - Economics Insights Talk Series by the Open University. Discussing the impact of Ebola and Covid-19 on poverty and Inequality. May 15th, 2023.
22nd Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference (2023) - The Impact of the Ebola Virus and Conflict on Household Welfare in Sierra Leone- Forthcoming (paper accepted), June 19
Research degree supervision

Student: Mamilan Hussein
School: Claude Littner Business School
Proposed Topic: The complexities and challenges of leading business sustainability development in developing countries; exploring strategies, social impacts, policies and implementation.