Dr Samah Issa PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance & Postgraduate Research Tutor (SERI)
Summary
Samah joined Sheffield Business School in 2014 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance. She holds a BSc in Economics, MSc in International Finance, and PhD degree in Banking and Finance from Essex Business School. Samah's teaching responsibilities at the Department of Finance, Accounting and Business Systems (FABS) include Global Financial Markets (UG&PG) and Corporate Finance (PG). At Sheffield Business School, Samah is the DBA Course Leader (Overseas) managing the delivery of the doctoral programme at Munich Business School and Zagreb School of Economics and Management. In 2018, Samah was recognised by the University for performance that exceeded expectations for her work on the DBA. Samah also is Postgraduate Research Tutor (PGRT) for the Social and Economic Research Institute (SERI). As PGRT, Samah provides leadership and support to the delivery of postgraduate research, offers additional mentoring to research students, helps building supervision teams and provides supervisor mentoring and training. In 2021, Samah was nominated for the University Inspirational Research Supervisor Award. She is currently supervising several doctoral students in the areas of Crowdfunding, Behavioural Economics and Finance, Cultural Economics, Organisational Culture in Banking and Strategic Management in Insurance. Samah is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES).
About
Qualifications
- 2016: Post Graduate Certificate (PgCert) Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
- 2014: PhD Banking and Finance, University of Essex, United Kingdom
- 2009: MSc International Finance, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Teaching expertise
- Finance and Banking
Teaching
Department of Finance, Accounting and Business Systems
Sheffield Business School
Finance, Banking and Economics
Global Financial Markets (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
Corporate Finance (Postgraduate)
Research
Crowdfunding
Banking Competition and Market Structure
Banking in Emerging Markets
Behavioural Finance and Economics (Decision Making and Fraud)
Social Capital and Cultural Economics
Publications
Journal articles
Issa, S., Girardone, C., & Snaith, S. (2020). Banking competition, convergence and growth across macro-regions of MENA. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2020.10.014
Conference papers
Breese, R., Issa, S., & Tresidder, R. (2021). Impact on Management Practice after Completing the DBA. In 2021 Engaged Management Scholarship (EMS) Conference, Miami, FL, 9 September 2021 - 12 September 2021. ttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3944827
Issa, S., Girardone, C., & Snaith, S. (2017). Banking competition, convergence and economic growth across macro-regions of MENA. In Annual conference of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10 April 2017 - 12 April 2017. British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)
Issa, S., Girardone, C., & Snaith, S. (2013). Market conditions and soundness: Islamic and conventional banks in MENA. In XXII International Conference on Money, Banking and Finance, Rome.
Issa, S., Girardone, C., & Snaith, S. (2012). Contagion in the MENA region. In Annual Conference of the European Association of University Teachers in Banking and Finance, Malta.
Reports
Issa, S., Girardone, C., & Snaith, S. (2022). Banking competition, convergence and growth across macro-regions of MENA. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2020.10.014
Theses / Dissertations
Hofinger, J. (2021). Regulatory risk disclosure in the banking industry:a scoring model approach. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Garrow, N., Issa, S., & Stumpfegger, E. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00383
Posters
Patterson, E., Matthias, O., Issa, S., & Wagner, D. (2019). The Use of a Decision Support System (DSS) in the Surety Pre-qualification Process: A Multi-level Framework. Presented at: 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, Massachusetts
Other activities
External Examiner for UG Finance Courses at Westminster Business School
Postgraduate supervision
Completed, May 2021: Regulatory Risk Disclosure in the Banking Industry: A Scoring Model Approach
Currently supervising 5 doctoral students on the following projects:
1. Home-Bias in Online Fundraising: An Analysis of International Reward-Based Crowdfunding
2. Factors Influencing Neutralization Techniques Applied by White-collar Criminals
3. Cultural Intelligence and Social Capital: Investigating expatriates’ working relationships in Malaysia
4. Firm performance, Organizational Culture and Innovation: The Case of Jordanian banks
5. The Impact of Diversification Strategy on the Financial Performance of Iranian Insurance Companies