An economics lecturer based in the Economics, Policy and International Business department, at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Research interests include behavioural economics, data analytics and quantitative research methods in various software, including STATA and R. Current research projects are associated with subjective well-being, and pension related decision-making. With regards to the latter, Sabaa is a governor at the Pension and Policy Institute (PPI).

Sabaa teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate economics, and is unit leader for undergraduate data analytics (which is taught in R) and behavioural economics, and well as applied microeconomic at postgraduate level. Sabaa supervises dissertations related to behavioural economics.