Financial Services as Critical National Infrastructure
Technology Strategy. Mega-Banks Systems Architecture. Fintech.
Access to Banking
Open Banking. Open Finance.
Computational methods for Social Science Research. Networks. Spatial Analysis.
Publications
Sonea, Andra (2024) Everyday banking, a critical national infrastructure in transition : the case of access to banking in the UK. PhD thesis, University of Warwick. https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/193399/
PGTA for Scaling Data and Societies (IM950), University of Warwick – teaching two classes of fifty students.
PGTA for Social Informatics (CS348), University of Warwick, three classes of fifty students – teaching, marking formative and summative assignments as well as assessing mobile app design
TA for Entrepreneurship Project, MBA programme, Said Business School, University of Oxford – Tutoring twelve groups of six MBA students from idea development to developing business plans and pitching to investors
Guest lecture – ‘An exploratory spatial analysis of access to physical and digital retail banking channels’, Institut Elie Cartan de Lorraine, University de Lorraine (Nov 2019),
Guest lecture – “Measuring Access to Banking in the UK”, Spatial Planning Lab, TU Dortmund (Oct 2022),
Guest lecture – “Mental maps for reading and debunking fintech”, MSc Fintech Infrastructures and Policy, University of Edinburgh (Nov 2024)
Attended the course “Teaching with Objects” run by Ashmolean Museum for the Social Sciences School, University of Oxford in order to introduce museum objects in the teaching practice.
Pastoral care for three master level students at the St Antony College
SELECTED DOCTORAL TRAINING
Earth Observation Summer School, OpenGeoHub Wageningen, September 2025
Quantitative Methods Addressing Geographical Imbalances: New Techniques, Frameworks and Applications. University of Oviedo, June 2024
Research Data Science, Alan Turing Institute, February 2023
Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University, 2022
Summer Institute for Computational Social Science, University of Oxford, July 2022
Complexity Interactive – Winter School, Santa Fe Institute, January 2022
Network Analysis in Finance and Economics, European University Institute, March 2021
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