Project overview Awarded with a 3-year Research Studentship by the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership in the Global Economies and Business Innovation Pathway for the PhD project “Measuring the Social Value of Microcredit: A Social Distance Approach” Staff Lead researchers Mr Wilson Odek BSc, MSc, CGMA Dip MA, AFHEA Research interests Marginalised Stakeholders Social Identity Theory Microeconomics Connect with Wilson Email: W.O.Odek@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking Our aim is to enhance understanding of the growing challenges that corporations, financial markets and banks are facing in developing national and global landscapes. Research outputs Embracing selective assimilation for social and economic mobility: how marginalized actors signal tribal identity to take advantage of identity opportunities Wilson O. Odek, 2025 Type: conference