Department of Economics
Reader
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, Feminist Political Economy Research Group
Member, Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation
Sara's areas of study are the political economy of work, food and nutrition, inequalities and social reproduction. Her work focuses on Africa, with primary research experience in Mozambique and Ghana.
Sara is committed to expanding the boundaries of economic research and teaching through interdisciplinary approaches, qualitative methods and micro-macro bridges.
The Workplace at the Bottom of Global Supply Chains as a Site of Reproduction of Colonial Relations: Reflections on the Cashew-Processing Industry in Mozambique
Stevano, Sara, 2021, Gender, Work and Organization (30), 2, pp 496-509
3rd Annual Conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), Developing methods in agriculture and health research, London, 13-14 June 2013
Harris, Jody, Bruce, Mieghan, Cavatorta, Elisa, Cornelsen, Laura, Häsler, Barbara, Green, Rosemary, Morgan, E. H., Stevano, Sara, Walls, Helen and Cunninghan, K, 2013, Food Security (5), 6, pp 887-894
The Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change: Feminist Political Economy and Rural Transformations in the Global South [Special issue of: Journal of Agrarian Change. Volume 24, Issue 3]
Mezzadri, Alessandra, (eds.), Stevano, Sara, (eds.), Ossome, Lyn, (eds.) and Bargawi, Hannah, (eds.) (2024). London: Wiley. (Special Issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change)
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction [Special issue of: Review of International Political Economy. vol. 29, no.6]
Mezzadri, Alessandra, (eds.), Newman, Susan, (eds.) and Stevano, Sara, (eds.) (2022). Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. (Review of International Political Economy)
Women Processing Cashew Nut: Reflections on Work, Investment and Gender in the Province of Cabo Delgado.
Stevano, Sara (2015). In: Castel-Branco, Carlos Nuno, (eds.), Massingue, N., (eds.) and Muianga, C., (eds.), Questions on productive development in Mozambique : background papers for the Danida project, 'Advocacy and Research for Private-Sector Business Development Programme' (PSBDP 2011-2015), coordinated by the Business Environment Fund (FAN). Maputo, Mozambique: IESE (Instiuto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos), pp 232-250
Women in the gig economy: paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa.
Hunt, Abigail, Samman, Emma, Tapfuma, Sherry, Mwaura, Grace, Omenya, Rhoda, Kim, Kay, Stevano, Sara and Roumer, Aida (2019). London: (Overseas Development Institute (ODI))
Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to planning and prioritization of rural roads in Nigeria
Akpan, Uduak Sylvester (2022), PhD thesis, SOAS University of London
