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DrSamia Mahmood

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
    Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
  • +44 (0)1902 321786 (Work)
  • University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Business School, Nursery Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1AD, United Kingdom

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Women’s entrepreneurship, including constraints to finance, contextual embeddedness and women’s empowerment
  • Women in business leadership, and the experiences of women in manufacturing and engineering
  • Ethnic minority women’s entrepreneurship, including institutional and structural barriers to business growth
  • SME digitalisation, including organisational and regional disparities in adopting new technologies
  • SME net‑zero adoption, with a focus on digital and green transitions in the West Midlands
  • Regional development in the West Midlands, including business digital readiness and skills for growth
  • Evidence‑based policymaking for SME support and inclusive regional economic development
  • Microfinance and SME finance, including impacts on entrepreneurship development, poverty reduction and women’s empowerment

GRANTS

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    From Evidence to Action: Helping Manufacturing SMEs Go Digital and Green in the West Midlands (C8)
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
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    Impacts on Regional Growth and Policy Effectiveness: Addressing Barriers to Digital and Sustainable Adoption in West Midlands Manufacturing SMEs
    Innovation and Research Caucus (IRC), UKRI15 Mar 2025 - 16 Jan 2026
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    Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Enhancing Digitalisation and AI Capacity in SMEs in the West Midlands
    University of Wolverhampton14 Feb 2025 - 16 Apr 2025
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    • Mahmood S,
    • Rahimi R,
    • Asghar N
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    ELEVATE - Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Post-Earthquake Hatay, Türkiye through Digital Capacity Building
    British Council1 Jan 2025 - 1 Oct 2026
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    Investigating Disparities in SMEs Digitalisation through the Analysis of Longitudinal Data
    Department for Business and Trade (DBT) via Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)15 Mar 2024 - 30 Aug 2024
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    Bridging Gaps, Building Futures: A Symposium on Inclusivity in SMEs Digitalisation in the West Midlands
    University of Wolverhampton13 Mar 2024 - 2 Sep 2024
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    From Insight to Action: Transforming Women in Business Leadership in the Midlands
    University of Wolverhampton1 Mar 2024 - 2 Dec 2024
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    • Mahmood S,
    • Jones J
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    Women in Business Leadership in the Midlands, UK
    Midlands Engine1 Sep 2021 - 17 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mahmood S,
    • Machold S
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    Reshaping labour force participation with Artificial Intelligence
    H2020-MSCA-RISE-20201 May 2021 - 1 May 2024
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    The contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth and the role of institutions: lessons from the case of post-Second World War Greece
    Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund (BRIEF) 2021/221 Feb 2021 - 31 Jul 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pittaki Z,
    • Macdowall S,
    • Mahmood S
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    Punish Them or Engage Them? A New Approach Toward Developing Student Disruptive Behaviours Strategies at UoW
    Wolverhampton Learning & Teaching (WLT) Awards 2018/19, University of Wolverhampton1 Sep 2019 - 31 Oct 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rahimi R,
    • Mahmood S,
    • Williams S,
    • Hussain M,
    • Hawkins R
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    An investigation of the extent to which formative use of text-matching software such as Turnitin may help reduce plagiarism by students both in the UK and overseas
    Vice Chancellor's Strategic Excellence Initiative (VCSEI) University of Wolverhampton1 Sep 2015 - 31 Jul 2017
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    Analysis of the performance of global microfinance institutions
    Early Researcher Award Scheme (ERAS), University of Wolverhampton1 Oct 2014 - 15 Oct 2015
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    • Mahmood S
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    From Evidence to Action: Helping Manufacturing SMEs Go Digital and Green in the West Midlands
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
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    Impacts on Regional Growth and Policy Effectiveness through Digital and Sustainable Adoption in SMEs
    17 Mar 2025 - 31 Jul 2026
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    Impacts on Regional Growth and Policy Effectiveness through Digital and Sustainable Adoption in SMEs
    17 Mar 2025 - 31 Jul 2026
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    Exploring Gender Disparities in Business Digitilisation
    15 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2025