Sanam Ammari

Dr. Sanam Ammari is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, affiliated with the School of Organisations, Systems and People within the Faculty of Business & Law. She specializes in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, with a focus on reward systems, academic employee engagement, and fairness perception in higher education settings.

Her teaching responsibilities include coordinating core modules such as Employability Research and Professional Development and the Dissertation module for Organization Studies and Human Resource Management. She has previously held a Lecturer position at Southampton Solent University and the International College Portsmouth.

Research Interests:

• Reward systems in academia and their impact on employee engagement
• Perceptions of fairness in academic reward structures
• Thematic analysis of organizational justice in universities

Her recent work includes a 2025 article in Studies in Higher Education exploring disparities in reward perceptions between academics and HR managers. This research highlights critical gaps in distributive and procedural justice within academic institutions.

No scientific awards have been listed. She has supervised her doctoral thesis but no current advisees are noted. No grants or lab affiliations are explicitly mentioned in the text.