Samuel is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at Swansea University. He received his PhD in Economics from Swansea University in 2020. His PhD was titled “Sexual Orientation and Wellbeing” and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the Welsh Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD).

Samuel is an Applied Labour Economist with expertise in the areas of wellbeing, minorities, LGBT+ economics, and quantitative methodologies. Samuel has been published in journals such as Economic Letters and Work, Employment, and Society.

Samuel was a 2019-2020 GLO VirtYS, advised by Nick Drydakis in the gender cluster. As part of the programme Sam worked on a project titled Transgender Employment and Gender Identity Laws.