Senior Lecturer in Management

I am an interdisciplinary academic and research consultant with over 10 years of experience in higher education and public policy research. My interdisciplinary expertise lies in a range of studies, including Global Risk Management, The Administration of International Organisations, International Relations Management, International Political Economy and International Development.

I have worked in research and consultancy institutions such as the Hague Institute for Global Justice and Overseas Development Institute (ODI), conducting and supporting public policy research and commissioned research contracts in international development and Global geoeconomic and geopolitical risk studies, including geo-economic strategic planning and global risks.

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Qualifications

I was awarded a doctorate and a Masters in global economic planning/Geoeconomics and Managerialism (Overseas), as well as a PhD and Masters in International studies/Geopolitics from Birmingham University (UK).

Additionally, I hold a postgraduate diploma in Economics and International Relations, and a joint honour bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and International Relations. I also have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) (UK QTS Level 7/SCQF 11/CQFW Level 7), in addition to credited Masters level courses in Education (Teaching/Lecturing/Assessment) from the University of Birmingham in 2012-2014.

My previous research at the Masters and Doctorate level focused on regional and international economic institutions, multinational corporations, and their classifications, types, legal and political structures, and ideological motivations from a neoliberal institutionalist perspective and Managerialism. I have conceptualised these entities as " International Economic Interest Groups".

Teaching Expertise

• I taught and convened modules for the University of Suffolk BA (Hons) Global Leadership and Management at Global Banking School. I have designed and co-designed two modules for levels three and four on Understanding the Economic Environment and Introduction to Economics and Politics in a Global Context at the School for Suffolk university.
• I had also been a teaching fellow at SOAS University of London, UK.
• I also worked as a lecturer at Birmingham University for over Seven years, taking on academic responsibilities at both Undergraduate & Postgraduate levels. I taught master’s students and supervised their research at the University
• I was also a research network coordinator at Leeds University, UK.

Research Interests

• Managing Global Risks and International Relations
• International Organisations: Behaviour and Strategy
• International Economics Interest Groups: International Corporate Political Activity, MNC Socio-Political and economic Interaction and The World Trade Organization, IMF and WB and World Economic Forum (WEF)
• Macro-Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Risks Assessment (International Affairs and Global Leadership Theory)
• My current active research: Conceptualising the emerging Neoliberal World Economic Order: A Critical Constructivist Macro-Geoeconomics Perspective. I investigate the dynamics and contextualization of global geoeconomic fragmentation, tensions, and confrontations, intensive geoeconomic weaponization and global security vulnerabilities.

Projects

I had developed collaborations, secured funding, engaged with practitioners, professionals, and academics, written for policymakers, and presented to diverse audiences. My research so far has helped provide policy practitioners with an additional source of information in the form of evidence-based analyses, a new guidance on which they can draw when approaching challenges. For example, for my research with the Hague Institute for Global Justice, I secured external funding for a research project. Collaborating with a team of international professionals, I have led a case study that involved fieldwork, including focus group discussions and interviews in Jordan and Germany. I have analysed the social scientific literature on the likelihood of success of various policy options to provide new guidance to policy practitioners and policymakers at the state level, in international organizations, and on the ground.

I have also produced high level research relating to Middle Eastern History and Global Economics. Working for Mouseion Professors (Cambridge University’s Partner) in London, I wrote a critical analysis of 15 thousand words on David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism, which was reviewed at Cambridge University and published on MACAT International’s ELibrary. I also produced a literature review for Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, UK.

Publications

View list of publications on Research Gate

Contact Details

E: Samir.Naser@beds.ac.uk