Professor Shampa Roy-Mukherjee
Vice Dean and Professor of Economics
Vice-Dean
Professor of Economics
, Royal Docks School of Business and Law
Professor of Economics and Vice Dean at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, Dr Shampa Roy-Mukherjee brings over a decade of sustained and successful senior leadership within the School. She holds significant management responsibility, supporting the Executive Dean in shaping and delivering strategic, academic and operational priorities aligned to the University’s Vision 2028 and cross-cutting institutional objectives. She plays an active role across School and University committees, contributing to institution-wide transformation and performance.
Qualifications
- PhD in Economics (University of Birmingham)
- M.Soc.Sc in Economics (University of Birmingham)
Areas Of Interest
Professor Shampa Roy-Mukherjee’s academic areas of interest include:
- Applied Macroeconomics
- Monetary Economics
- International Finance
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Economic Development and Emerging Economies
- Globalisation and Financial Integration
- Cost of Living Crisis and Household Economic Resilience
Her research examines macro-financial linkages, capital flows, and financial stability, with particular attention to the economic dynamics of developing and emerging markets. More recently, her work has extended to analysing the cost of living crisis, focusing on inflationary pressures, household vulnerability, inequality, and policy responses aimed at supporting economic resilience.
OVERVIEW
Professor Shampa Roy-Mukherjee is Professor of Economics and Vice Dean at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, bringing over a decade of sustained and successful senior leadership within the School. She holds significant management responsibility, supporting the Executive Dean in shaping, delivering and monitoring strategic, academic and operational priorities aligned to the University’s Vision 2028 and cross-cutting institutional objectives. Her leadership spans financial sustainability, academic strategy, student success and organisational performance, and she plays an active role across School and University committees, contributing to institution-wide transformation and governance.
She has extensive experience in senior management roles, including Interim Dean (Feb-Sept. 2023) and Director of Impact and Innovation (Jan 2020- Jan 2023), leading large and complex academic portfolios. In her current role as Vice Dean she continues to drive growth and diversification through portfolio development, expansion of undergraduate and postgraduate provision, international market growth and strengthening of partnership activity. Her strategic leadership has supported strong student recruitment growth, improved NSS and PTES outcomes, and enhanced performance against REF, TEF and B3 metrics.
She provides strategic leadership for globally recognised accreditations and external benchmarks. She led the School to achieve the Small Business Charter Award in 2025 and is currently leading on AACSB accreditation, EFMD programme accreditations and the Business School Impact System (BSIS) award. She also plays a key leadership role in the School’s Athena SWAN Silver application, embedding equality, diversity and inclusion within strategy, culture and practice.
She continues to play a key role in the School’s Impact and Innovation portfolio driving a step change in research culture and performance, overseeing REF2021 and REF 2029 preparations. An internationally recognised researcher, she is Co-Chair of the UEL Noon Centre and leads high-impact research initiatives that enhance the University’s research profile and global visibility. She demonstrates strong external engagement at local, national and international levels, building strategic partnerships with universities, businesses, civic organisations and global stakeholders to advance the Vision 2028 ambitions of a Connected Campus, a 5.0 Economy and an Inclusive Society.
She is also committed to staff development and organisational capacity building, leading strategic recruitment, mentoring colleagues, strengthening leadership capability and fostering inclusive, high-performing academic teams that support sustainable growth and long-term institutional success.
RESEARCH AND IMPACT
Professor Shampa Roy-Mukherjee has an internationally recognised research profile in applied macroeconomics, international finance and political economy, with a strong focus on globalisation, financial development, inequality, financial stability and emerging markets. Her work is interdisciplinary and policy-engaged, with recent research and public scholarship examining inflationary pressures, the cost of living crisis, household vulnerability and macroeconomic policy responses in the UK and beyond. She is co-author of China & the US: Globalisation and the Decline of America’s Supremacy (Palgrave Macmillan) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on globalisation, inequality and economic development.
Her research is strongly connected to public policy and media engagement.
She is a regular contributor to The Conversation, where she has written extensively on the UK cost of living crisis, inflation, Bank of England policy, fiscal strategy and UK Budget commentary, including analysis of Autumn Statements and the economic implications of government tax and spending decisions. She has also been quoted or featured in outlets such as New Statesman, Time, and other national and international platforms, contributing expert commentary on inflation, labour markets, Brexit and economic reform.
She has secured competitive external funding as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator, including awards from the British Academy ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening Programme and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), alongside European and international collaborative grants. Her leadership has contributed to significant growth in research income, increased postgraduate research completions and strengthened institutional research capacity. She serves on editorial boards of international journals, reviews for UKRI and ESRC, and has received international recognition including the title of Guangdong Distinguished Overseas Professor, reflecting the global reach and impact of her scholarship.
Research Centre(s) and Groups
- Co-Director of the UEL Noon Centre
EXTERNAL ROLES
Editorial Board Memberships
• Editorial Board member of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), founded in 1998
• Editorial Board Member of the The Journal of Global Faultlines (a biannual peer reviewed journal published by Pluto Journals). Print ISSN: 2397-7825 / e-ISSN: 2054-208
Distinctions
• Guangdong Distinguished Overseas Professor (Title conferred in 2020), Guangdong University of Finance & Economics: Guangzhou, Guangdong, CN
• International Advisory Board Member, Faculty of Economics and Business, Osijek, Croatia (since 2025)
• Visiting Professor at University Jaume, Castellón, Spain (Sept. 2020 - Sept. 2022)
• Visiting professor at Fort Hare University in South Africa (Title conferred in 2024)
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
Professor Shampa Roy-Mukherjee has significant partnerships and collaborations with regional and national industry networks such as London Chamber of Commerce, Newham Chamber of Commerce, Newham Council, East London Business Association, Living Wage Foundation, Rotary Club and Newham Health Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications
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Full publications list
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- Tokenism and the Concrete Ceiling: Navigating Racial and Gender Disparities in the Experiences of Black Female Police Officers Gender, Work and Organization. 32 (4), pp. 1654-1667. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13260
- Developing Employability Skills through Practice-Based Learning in: Lawton, A., Morgan, A., Massey, D. and Castelyn, D. (ed.) International Handbook on Clinical Tax Education. London, UK: University of London Press for the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, pp.220-239
- Re-evaluating Turkey’s global relationships and its shift toward the South-East Asian region Journal of Global Faultlines. 10 (1), pp. 88-101. https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0088
- The Rise and Fall of the Ordoliberal Left in Europe in: Ristić, I. (ed.) Resetting the Left in Europe: Challenges, Attempts and Obstacles. Institut Drustvenih Nauka, pp.86-111
- Empirical Analysis of an Augmented Schumpeterian Endogenous Growth Model Journal of Economic Development. 46 (1), pp. 53-84
- Does Increasing Product Complexity and Diversity Cause Economic Growth in the Long-Run? A GMM Panel VAR Evidence SAGE Open. 11 (3), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032918
- Neo-liberal Globalization and Income Inequality: Panel Data Evidence from OECD and Western Balkan Countries Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 23 (1), pp. 15-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852004
- China & the USA: Globalisation and the Decline of America’s Supremacy Palgrave Macmillan
- On the Uncertainty Caused by the Referendum on Brexit Applied Economics Quarterly. 66 (2), p. 145–164. https://doi.org/10.3790/aeq.66.2.145
- The Shifting Boundaries of Capitalism and the Conflict of Surplus Value Appropriation within the Gig Economy in: Page-Tickell, R. and Yerby, E. (ed.) Conflict and Shifting Boundaries in the Gig Economy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.45-62
