Dr. Maryam Sholevar

Assistant Professor in Business and Management

Treasurer, British Sociological Association (BSA)

Edinburgh Business School (EBS), Herriot-Watt University

Maryam Sholevar has both academic and business experience in a broad range of topics in the realm of banking and finance. She obtained her PhD from SOAS, University London, for which she was awarded AXA Scholarship. She proposed a new definition for financial literacy (FL), empirically proved by pristine data directly collected by her fieldwork funded by a £1 million Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project. Prior to that, she worked as a lecturer at Jimma University and received several awards of appreciation for her novel teaching methods. She served as an Editor of Brief Encounters, published by the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts Southeast England (CHASE). She is the Post Graduate Research lead for the CREWs Research Centre at Edinburgh Business School. She is also part of the team in EBS developing a scoping document for a new Work-Based Learning Institute. 

Assistant Professor in Business and Management

The Treasurer and the Trustee of British Sociological Association (BSA)

PGR Lead for the CREWs Research Centre

Personal Finance, Micro Economy, Data Analysis, African Studies, Gender Studies, Entrepreneurship

Centre for Research on Employment, Work and the professionS (CREWs)