Dr Olufemi Sallyanne Decker BSc Hons, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr Sallyanne Decker is an Associate Professor in Banking and Finance and the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the Accounting and Finance Department. She joined the University of Greenwich in 2009 from London Metropolitan University, where she had lectured since 1998. Dr Decker has also taught as a Visiting Lecturer in Global Financial Markets at ESCEM Tours-Poitiers in France.

Her research focuses on the areas of credit union development, corporate social responsibility in the financial services sector and structural change and competition in banking. Dr Decker has been an Associate Consultant for the Association of British Credit Unions since 2003 and was an appointed Chief Examiner of the Institute of Financial Services' Award in Credit Union Practice from 2008 - 2011. She is also a member of the Association of Business Executives and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Responsibilities within the university

Dr Sallyanne Decker is the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the Accounting and Finance Department.

She also teaches on the following courses:

  • Banking Principles and Practice
  • Ethics and Corporate Governance
  • Global Banking and Financial Regulation
  • Business and Corporate Banking

Awards

2016: Outstanding Teacher in the Business Faculty, University of Greenwich

Recognition

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
  • Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE)

Key projects

August 2014- present - Lead Academic on Knowledge Transfer Project with London Mutual Credit Union (LMCU) - funded by ESRC, Innovate UK and LMCU £120,000.

Project Aim - To develop and embed the compliance and risk assessment capability needed to undertake mortgage lending and offer other housing finance products.

Recent publications

Book section

Decker, Olufemi and , (2023), Inclusive/Selective/Compliant Finance/Banking. Springer. In: , , In: Samuel Idowu, René Schmidpeter, Nicholas Capaldi, Liangrong Zu, Mara Del Baldo, Rute Abreu (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham, Switzerland (1st) . ISBN: 9783030020064; 9783030020064 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4) NB Item availability restricted.

Decker, Olufemi and , Yan, Lili (2023), Credit unions and credit cooperatives. Springer. In: , , In: Samuel Idowu, René Schmidpeter, Nicholas Capaldi, Liangrong Zu Zu, Mara Del Baldo, Rute Abreu (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham, Switzerland (1st) . pp. 1-11 . ISBN: 9783030020064 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_524-1) NB Item availability restricted.

Decker, Olufemi and , Kingdom, Joy (2021), Banks and the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer. In: , , In: Samuel Idowu, René Schmidpeter, Nicholas Capaldi, Liangrong Zu, Mara Del Baldo, Rute Abreu (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham (1st) . ISBN: 9783030020064 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_526-1) NB Item availability restricted.

Decker, Olufemi and , Ntozi-Obwale, Patricia (2021), Basel Recommendations on Corporate Governance Principles for Banks. Palgrave. In: , , In: Samuel Idowu, René Schmidpeter, Nicholas Capaldi, Liangrong Zu, Mara Del Baldo, Rute Abreu (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Palgrave, . ISBN: 9783030020064 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4).

Conference item

Decker, Olufemi Sallyanne , Yan, Lili, Benbouzid, Nadia (2020), Diagnostic assessment in banking and finance as a means of improving curriculum inclusivity, teaching and learning. In: SHIFT 2020 – The University of Greenwich Annual Conference of Learning, Teaching and Assessment, 10 Jan 2020, London, UK , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.

Decker, Olufemi and , (2017), The Public Pedagogy of British Credit Unions: From Financial Diversity and Choice to a Pedagogy of Hierarchy and Discrimination. In: International Conference on Cultural Studies and Education, 4-6 May 2017, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.

Decker, Olufemi and , (2016), Product development and product governance in financial cooperatives. In: International Conference on CSR and Organisational Governance, 8th to 10th September 2016, Melbourne, Australia , . , (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.

Monograph

Decker, Sallyanne (Olufemi) , Sims, Stuart, George, Rachel, Eranova, Mariya , Caussat, Paul , Pullen, Emma , Girdley, Ryan (2023), QAA Shared Modules Collaborative Enhancement Project: Shared modules literature review. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. In: , , , . The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Gloucester and London (1st) (doi: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/members/shared-modules-literature-review.pdf?sfvrsn=f74bb181_7).