Staff Profile

Sarah Najm is a NUAcT Fellow in Economics of Creative Industries at Newcastle University Business School, where she explores the social value of the arts and wellbeing in lower-income households. She is also involved in developing a longitudinal business panel survey at the Creative PEC. Her broader research interests include sustainability issues and the role of institutions in generating environmental, social, and fiscal inequalities.

Sarah holds an MSc in Economics from the University of York, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Reading where she is a Visiting Fellow leading a study on inequality beliefs. Her background and publication pipeline employ global and cross-country analysis to better understand the role of institutions in shaping environmental outcomes, which broadly draw on the political economy of institutions in relation to sustainability.