Dr Karuna Gomanee

Dr Karuna Gomanee is a Senior Lecturer in Economics with over 20 years of experience in higher education. Since joining Regent’s University London in 2004, she has taught across foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. Her teaching portfolio spans a wide range of subjects, including economics, marketing, research methods, and quantitative tools.

Dr Gomanee has contributed extensively to academic development through curriculum design, validation processes, and the design, delivery, and assessment of modules. She has supervised dissertations at undergraduate, MSc, and PhD levels, as well as business projects and business start-ups.

She currently serves as Course Leader for four MSc Finance programmes and plays an active role in the University’s academic leadership. Her commitment to continuous professional development and to making impactful contributions to the academic community, has led her to take on several non-teaching responsibilities. These include serving as Learning Design Champion, Finance Pathway Leader, Member of the Accounting, Finance & Economics (AFE) Moderating Panel, Departmental Library Liaison, Member of the Academic Standards and Quality Assurance Committee, and Member of the Research Committee to Senate, to name a few

Dr Gomanee is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). She has published in peer-reviewed journals, serves as a referee for academic publications, and has acted as an External Examiner for other higher education institutions.

Qualifications

• 2020 - Certificate in Research Supervision, University of Northampton
• 2004 - Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Liverpool
• 2002 - PhD in Development Economics, University of Nottingham (awarded scholarship)
• 1999 - MSc in Economics and International Economics, University of Nottingham (awarded scholarship)
• 1998 - BSc (Hons) in Economics, University of Mauritius
• 1995 - Qualifying Term in Law, University of Mauritius.

Relevant Past Employment

• 2004 to present - Senior Lecturer & Course Leader for MSc Finance & Financial Technology, MSc Finance Investment & Wealth Management, MSc Finance & Private Equity, MSc Finance & Real Estate Investment, Regent’s University London
• 2019 - Guest Lecturer, University of Sapienza, Italy
• 2003 to 2004 - Lecturer & Course Director of BA (Hons) Economics, University of Liverpool.
• 2002 to 2003 - Research Assistant at Oxford Brookes University, Project: Innovation and Regional Development in EU
• 2000 to 2002 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Nottingham
• 2001 - Research Assistant at University of Nottingham, Project: DflD funded project on 'Risk, Labour Markets and Pro-poor Growth'
• 1998 to 1999 - Research Assistant at University of Nottingham, Project: Leverhulme Trust funded project on 'Globalisation and Labour Market'

• Gomanee, S.Girma and O.Morrissey (2005), ‘Aid and Growth: Accounting for Transmission Mechanisms in sub-Saharan Africa’, Journal of International Development, Volume 17(8).
• Gomanee, O. Morrissey, P. Mosley and A. Verschoor (2005), ‘Aid, Government Expenditure and Aggregate Welfare’, World Development, Volume 33 (3).
• Gomanee, S.Girma and O. Morrissey (2005), ‘Aid, Public Spending and Human Welfare: Evidence from Quantile Regressions’, Journal of International Development, Volume 17.
• Gomanee (2003), 'Innovation and Regional Economic Development', Oxford Brookes University, Working Paper 195 
• Gomanee, S.Girma and O.Morrissey (2002), 'Searching for Aid Threshold Effects', Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), University of Nottingham, Research Paper 03/15.
• Mosley, P. and J. Hudson with Gomanee (2002), ‘Aid, poverty reduction and the new conditionality’, University of Sheffield, Research Programme on Risk, Labour Markets and Pro-poor Growth: Occasional Paper 5.
• K.Gomanee (2002), Book Review of ‘Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm? (By N. Hermes and R.Lensink)’, Journal of International Development, 14:4, pp. 539‑40.

• Supervises dissertation at both undergraduate and MA level.
• Business Start Up

Research Interests

Research interests include impact of foreign aid on growth and human welfare.

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Committee member for the European Conference on Research Methodology

Teaching:

• Module leader for Macroeconomics at EBS (2008-present)
• Team teach and module leader for Introduction to Microeconomics at HASS (2017)
• Module leader for Mathematical and Quantitative Techniques in Business (2017)
• Team teach Foundation in Managerial Economics and Foundations of Economics (2008-2017)
• Team teach and module leader for Economics and Quantitative Analysis (2014-2015)
• Module leader for Principles of Microeconomics at RACL (2012)
• Team taught International Manager at RBS (2011)
• Taught Macroeconomic Analysis at Webster
• Module Leader for Microeconomics at RBS (2004-2007)

Course development activities:

• Part of the module writing team in UG review (2016)
• Panel Member of Revalidation Event of MA Creative Leadership programme (2015)
• Member of OGTM Programme Team (2014-2015)
• Developed a new module ‘Foundation in Economics’ (2012)

Examining

• 2004-present: undergraduate and postgraduate, taught, internal.
• 2007-2013: undergraduate, taught, external examiner, Kensington College of Business (London).