Hi, I am Angela Samuel.
I’m a PhD candidate in Public Management at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. I will be a visiting scholar at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Spring 2026.
My research explores the challenges of collaborative governance across diverse public management settings, including urban governance, cross-sector collaborations, and public–private partnerships. I also study the perceptual biases of citizens, with a special focus on sector bias: why certain sectors are preferred and how these preferences shift across contexts.
I approach these questions with an interdisciplinary lens, drawing on theories from psychology, management, and organizational studies. Methodologically, I use a variety of approaches, including large-scale datasets, media analysis, interviews, survey experiments, and conjoint analyses.
I am currently based in Singapore, and I will be on the academic job market in 2025/26.