Aisha Abubakar

Contact

• workRoom B33 Sir Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Aisha.Abubakar1@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://sites.google.com/view/aisha-m-abubakar/home

Biography

Before re-joining the School of Economics as a Teaching Associate in 2024, Aisha worked as a Research Fellow at the Rights Lab after completing her PhD (2017-2022). She was also a WBG Africa Fellow/Consultant at the World Bank (2021-2024), a Graduate Teaching Assistant/Fellow at the Nottingham School of Economics (2018-2022), and a Lecturer at two Nigerian Universities (2013-2017).

Expertise Summary

Her expertise includes Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics. She is interested in health inequalities, social inclusion, welfare and livelihoods of minoritized/vulnerable populations in the Global South (including people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, women, and migrants).

Recent Publications

• LAMBERT I., WRIGHT N., GARDNER A., FYSON R., ABUBAKAR A. and CLAWSON R., 2024. Cognitive Impairment as a Vulnerability for Exploitation: A Scoping Review Trauma, Violence & Abuse. Epub, 1-15
• ABUBAKAR A., SEYMOUR R., GARDNER A., LAMBERT I., FYSON R. and WRIGHT N., 2024. Cognitive impairment and exploitation: Connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data Journal of Public Health. 46(4), 498-505
• ABUBAKAR A., BRIDGES S., GAGGERO A. and OWENS T., 2021. Disability in Uganda: a medical intervention to measure gendered impacts on functional independence and labour-market outcomes Oxford Development Studies. 49(4), 324-336

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• LAMBERT I., WRIGHT N., GARDNER A., FYSON R., ABUBAKAR A. and CLAWSON R., 2024. Cognitive Impairment as a Vulnerability for Exploitation: A Scoping Review Trauma, Violence & Abuse. Epub, 1-15
• ABUBAKAR A., SEYMOUR R., GARDNER A., LAMBERT I., FYSON R. and WRIGHT N., 2024. Cognitive impairment and exploitation: Connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data Journal of Public Health. 46(4), 498-505
• ABUBAKAR A., BRIDGES S., GAGGERO A. and OWENS T., 2021. Disability in Uganda: a medical intervention to measure gendered impacts on functional independence and labour-market outcomes Oxford Development Studies. 49(4), 324-336