University of Exeter Business School

Dr Eunice Oppon

Dr Eunice Oppon

Lecturer in Sustainability and Business Analytics

 E.P.Oppon@exeter.ac.uk

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 Stella Turk Building B046-022 Stella Turk Building

 

University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, TR10 9FE

Overview

Eunice Oppon joined the Sustainable Futures department in January 2021. She obtained her PhD in Operations Management from the University of Sheffield. She received an MSc in Applied Economics from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and BSc in Business Administration from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

She is an ambitious researcher who seeks to create and engage in academic research activities that generates impact. While studying for her PhD at Sheffield Management School, she wrote a research proposal and was successfully awarded a GCRF Africa Innovation grant to work on Agri-food circular economy in Ghana. She currently works on the project as a Co-investigator.

Nationality: Ghanaian

Qualifications

  • PhD Operations Management
  • MSc Applied Economics
  • BSc Business Administration
  • FHEA

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Research

Research interests

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Circular Economy
  • Environmental Economics
  • Climate Change Policy
  • Data Analytics for Decision Making

Eunice is trained in Applied Economics, techno-economic assessment, energy economics, and value- and supply-chain impact assessment within agricultural and energy systems. She specifically specializes in operations and management research with considerable expertise in value chain sustainability assessment in various sectors including agricultural and food systems sector. She employs quantitative methods including input-output and life cycle assessment tools to estimate embodied environmental, economic and social impacts of agricultural value and supply chains. Her analytical and methodological work focuses on sustainability work within agricultural and food system value and supply chains.

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Publications

Journal articles

Oppon E, Richter JS, Koh SCL, Nabayiga H (2023). Macro-level economic and environmental sustainability of negative emission technologies; Case study of crushed silicate production for enhanced weathering. Ecological Economics, 204 Abstract.
Oppon E, Koh SCL, Eufrasio R, Nabayiga H, Donkor F (2023). Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Abstract.
Acquaye A, Ibn-Mohammed T, Genovese A, Afrifa GA, Yamoah FA, Oppon E (2018). A quantitative model for environmentally sustainable supply chain performance measurement. European Journal of Operational Research, 269(1), 188-205.
Oppon E, Acquaye A, Ibn-Mohammed T, Koh L (2018). Modelling Multi-regional Ecological Exchanges: the Case of UK and Africa. Ecological Economics, 147, 422-435.
Acquaye A, Feng K, Oppon E, Salhi S, Ibn-Mohammed T, Genovese A, Hubacek K (2017). Measuring the environmental sustainability performance of global supply chains: a multi-regional input-output analysis for carbon, sulphur oxide and water footprints. Journal of Environmental Management, 187, 571-585.

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External Engagement and Impact

Awards and Honours

  • PhD Award- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
  • Commonwealth Scholarship Awards

External positions

  • Co-investigator on GCRF Africa Innovation grant on Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Assessment of Agri-food Circular economy in Ghana.

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