Key details
Dr Faith Adobamen
Lecturer, International Business.
Dr Faith Adobamen is a Lecturer in International Business, in the department of International Business and Economics at the University of Greenwich Business School. Prior to the University of Greenwich, Faith worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank Group, in the Africa Corporate Governance (Advisory) Program of the institution, which provides Corporate Governance interventions to companies, regulators, and market intermediaries across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr Adobamen’s principal area of study is on the Impact of Research and Development (R&D) on Productivity, Economic Growth and Panel Data Econometrics.
Faith completed her VC Scholarship funded PhD in Economics at the University of Greenwich, her Thesis, entitled “The Effects of R&D on Regional Productivity in the UK: Comparative Evidence on Business R&D, Government R&D, and Higher Education Research. Faith holds an MSc. in Business and Financial Economics and graduated with a Distinction. Her first degree was a BSc. Economics from the Lagos State University.
Her teaching and tutoring experience has included several undergraduate and postgraduate modules within the department of International Business and Economics.
Responsibilities within the university
Programme Leader – Faith is the Programme Co-lead in the Executive Business Centre’s MBA/International Business.
Module Leader – Faith is currently the Module leader for International Economics and Innovation. She also led a range of Module(s) during the previous academic year, which included a complete re-design and delivery of the Module(s).
Placement and Personal Tutor – Faith Tutors’ MBA/IB students in professional practice, which supports learning during internship.
Research / Scholarly interests
Faith’s research interest is specifically on the Effect of R&D on Productivity. She is interested in Growth Economics, which is important for improving the wellbeing of societies. Faith is also interested in the determinants of Regional and Firm-level Productivity, as an important contributor to economic growth. Her empirical research involves the use of panel datasets – hence, she is interested in Applied Panel Data Econometrics Methods.
Key funded projects
April 2021 – July 022 “Evaluating the Impact of COVID online teaching on the Awarding Gaps in Economics: Evidence from the University of Greenwich” Royal Economic Society, Co-Investigator, £14k
Presentations
Adobamen, F., Hawkes, D. and Mehari, T. (2021) “The impact of COVID changes in assessment on Ethnicity Awarding Gaps in Economics” A paper presented at the Measuring Education’s Real Impact of Innovative Teaching and Learning (MERIT), University of Greenwich.
Adobamen, F. (2021) “The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Productivity in the UK: Comparative Evidence on Business R&D, Government R&D and Higher Education Research”., Presentation at the London Political Economy Network (LPEN), Kings College, London.
Adobamen, F. (2021) “The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Productivity in the UK: Comparative Evidence on Business R&D, Government R&D and Higher Education Research”., Poster presented at the University of Greenwich Annual PhD Poster Conference, London, UK.
Adobamen, F. (2020) “The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Productivity in the UK”., Poster presented at the University of Greenwich Annual PhD Poster Conference, London, UK.
Adobamen, F. (2019) “The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Regional Productivity in the UK”., Poster presented at the University of Greenwich Annual PhD Poster Conference, London, UK.