DrSamia Mahmood
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Faculty of Business, Arts, Social Sciences & Education
Orcid identifier0000-0002-6103-1578 (opens in a new tab)
- Senior Lecturer in Accounting and FinanceFaculty of Business, Arts, Social Sciences & Education
- +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
- GRANTFAVOURITEInstitute for small business and entrepreneurship1 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2027People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S
- GRANTFAVOURITEInnovation and Research Caucus, UKRI, Innovate UK.1 Jan 2026 - 31 Aug 2026People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S,
- Asghar N,
- Kousha K
- GRANTFAVOURITEInnovation and Research Caucus (IRC), UKRI15 Mar 2025 - 16 Jan 2026
- GRANTFAVOURITEEmpowering Women Entrepreneurs: Enhancing Digitalisation and AI Capacity in SMEs in the West MidlandsUniversity of Wolverhampton14 Feb 2025 - 16 Apr 2025People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S,
- Rahimi R,
- Asghar N
- GRANTFAVOURITEELEVATE - Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Post-Earthquake Hatay, Türkiye through Digital Capacity BuildingBritish Council1 Jan 2025 - 1 Oct 2026People funded by this grant:
- Rahimi R,
- Mahmood S
- GRANTFAVOURITEDepartment for Business and Trade (DBT) via Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)15 Mar 2024 - 30 Aug 2024
- GRANTFAVOURITEBridging Gaps, Building Futures: A Symposium on Inclusivity in SMEs Digitalisation in the West MidlandsUniversity of Wolverhampton13 Mar 2024 - 2 Sep 2024People funded by this grant:
- Asghar N,
- Mahmood S,
- Kousha K
- GRANTFAVOURITEUniversity of Wolverhampton1 Mar 2024 - 2 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S,
- Jones J
- GRANTFAVOURITEMidlands Engine1 Sep 2021 - 17 Dec 2021People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S,
- Machold S
- GRANTFAVOURITEReshaping labour force participation with Artificial IntelligenceH2020-MSCA-RISE-20201 May 2021 - 1 May 2024
- GRANTFAVOURITEThe contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth and the role of institutions: lessons from the case of post-Second World War GreeceBrunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund (BRIEF) 2021/221 Feb 2021 - 31 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- Pittaki Z,
- Macdowall S,
- Mahmood S
- GRANTFAVOURITEPunish Them or Engage Them? A New Approach Toward Developing Student Disruptive Behaviours Strategies at UoWWolverhampton Learning & Teaching (WLT) Awards 2018/19, University of Wolverhampton1 Sep 2019 - 31 Oct 2021People funded by this grant:
- Rahimi R,
- Mahmood S,
- Williams S,
- Hussain M,
- Hawkins R
- GRANTFAVOURITEAn 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 overseasVice Chancellor's Strategic Excellence Initiative (VCSEI) University of Wolverhampton1 Sep 2015 - 31 Jul 2017People funded by this grant:
- Bailey C,
- Mahmood S
- GRANTFAVOURITEAnalysis of the performance of global microfinance institutionsEarly Researcher Award Scheme (ERAS), University of Wolverhampton1 Oct 2014 - 15 Oct 2015People funded by this grant:
- Mahmood S
- GRANTFrom Evidence to Action: Helping Manufacturing SMEs Go Digital and Green in the West Midlands (C8)1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
- GRANTFrom Evidence to Action: Helping Manufacturing SMEs Go Digital and Green in the West Midlands1 Jan 2026 - 31 Jul 2027
- GRANTImpacts on Regional Growth and Policy Effectiveness through Digital and Sustainable Adoption in SMEs17 Mar 2025 - 31 Jul 2026
- GRANTImpacts on Regional Growth and Policy Effectiveness through Digital and Sustainable Adoption in SMEs17 Mar 2025 - 31 Jul 2026
- GRANTExploring Gender Disparities in Business Digitilisation15 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
