Samuel Anim
PhD Candidate
General correspondence:
Advice and Feedback hours:
Monday: 1:00 - 2:00
Friday: 2:00 - 3:00
Subject to availability, advice/feedback sessions can be arranged outside these times.
To book a slot, please contact me via my staff/teaching email with your preferred time, and to choose between in-person or virtual meeting.
I was a doctoral researcher in Politics and International Studies from 2020-2024. Before joining PAIS Warwick, I worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. I hold a master’s degree in African Studies (awarded with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, where I concentrated on African politics, history, and development. Before that, I obtained a BA in Political Studies from KNUST.
Research
I am a student of the processes, complexities and contradictions of political and social change. I utilise multi-disciplinary approaches and qualitative inquiry to pursue these themes as they manifest in historical and contemporary cases of democracy and democratisation, development, social conflicts and peacebuilding. I focus primarily on Ghana as a first step to understanding Africa, more broadly.
My doctoral research examined the politics of peace and democratic stability in Ghana. I aimed to understand the mechanisms put in place to safeguard Ghana's competitive democratic politics, and how different political actors operate within these domains.
This work was supervised by Professor Gabrielle Lynch and Dr Briony Jones, both members of the Politics and International Studies department at Warwick. I was funded by the Chancellor’s International Scholarship offered by Warwick’s Doctoral College.
Teaching
From 2021/22 to the 2023/24 academic years, I was a seminar tutor for PO107: Introduction to Politics.
Service
I was a member of the Critical International and Political Studies (CRIPS) Graduate Working Group during the 2020/21 academic year.