Kim Samuel

Research Fellow
ophi@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Biography

Kim Samuel is a Research Fellow at OPHI, where she studies the relationship between social isolation and multidimensional poverty as well as the broader link between human belonging and wellbeing in the cosmos. Kim is the author of On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation (Abrams Press: September 2022) and was appointed the first-ever Fulbright Canada ambassador for diversity and social connectedness. Samuel is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, where she particularly focuses on the health impacts of social isolation and on building reciprocal systems of care. She is the Founder and Chief Belonging Officer of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness, and an academic lecturer at institutions including Oxford, Harvard, and McGill universities. 

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  • Research interests

    Social isolation; multidimensional poverty; inequality; belonging

  • Selected publications

    Samuel, K. (2022). On Belonging: Finding connection in an age of isolation. ISBN: 9781419753039

    Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Zavaleta, D., Mills, C. and Hammock, J. (2018). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty’, Oxford Development Studies, 46:1, 83–97, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2017.1311852.

    Zavaleta, D., Samuel, K. and Mills, C. T. (2016). ‘Measures of social isolation.’ Social Indicators Research, 131, 367–391 (2017), DOI 10.1007/s11205-016-1252-2, published online 02 February 2016.

    Mills, C., Zavaleta, D. and Samuel, K. (2015). ‘Shame, humiliation and social isolation: Missing dimensions of poverty and suffering analysis,’ published in R. E, Anderson (ed.), World Suffering and the Quality of Life, New York: Springer, 2015, ch. 19.

    Zavaleta, D., Samuel, K., and Mills, C. (2014). ‘Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal,’ OPHI Working Paper 67, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

    Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Hammock, J., Mills, C., and Zavaleta, D. (2014). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty,’ OPHI Working Paper 80, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

    Mills, C., Zavaleta, D. and Samuel, K. (2014). ‘Shame, humiliation and social isolation: Missing dimensions of poverty and suffering analysis,’ OPHI Working Papers 71, University of Oxford.