Research Leadership

DatePosition and Institution
2024Received the University of Manchester Research Collaboration Fund for Research Staff received for a pilot study: Promoting youth understanding and effective actions through place-based education in climate change-induced conflict regions of Lake Chad Basin Countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria)
2023Received a grant from the British Council for an Evaluation of the Non-formal Education Young Leaders Connect Project Nigeria
2022Received a grant from the British Council for the study on the UK market sentiment
2022Received a grant from the British Council for a  study on graduate outcome insight
2022Received a grant from the Disability Rights Advocacy Centre for an Evaluation of the Break the Cycle Project
2022Received a grant from the Disability Rights Advocacy Centre for a Situation Analysis of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Nigeria
2022Received a grant from the Street Child for A Retention Strategy Survey Amongst Young Persons, Women and Girls in Communities in Edo State, Nigeria
2021 – 2023Served as an Independent Assessment for the Monitoring of 20 Civil Society Organisations’ (and CSO networks) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that received capacity development support from the European Union’s Agents for Citizen-Driven Transformation (ACT) Programme, which is implemented in Nigeria by the British Council:
2022Designed and led Situation Analysis of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Nigeria for the Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC) in Benue and Plateau States, Nigeria.
2022Designed and led the Annual Monitoring and Evaluation of the Christian Blind Mission Global-funded Break the Cycle Project that was implemented by the Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC), which included evaluation of their 49 Village Savings and Loans in Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State in Nigeria
2022Designed and led a sequential mixed-method on retention strategies amongst young persons, women and girls in communities in Edo State, Nigeria for the Street Child that sought to support the implementation of the “Stop trafficking! Prevention and Protection of Young Persons, Women and Girls Vulnerable to or Survivors of Trafficking Project in Edo State.
2022Designed and led a UK market insight study on the UK prospective students for the British Council
2022Designed and led the study on the UK Prospective Students Market Insight for the British Council
2021 – 2022Served as in-country Research Coordinator for the implementation of experimental research on the NYSC component of RISE across selected secondary schools in Jigawa state (northern) and Oyo state (southern), Nigeria.
2021Designed and led a Political Economy Analysis (PEA) of CSOs Operations and Environment in North-Central Nigeria (Kwara and Plateau states) for the European Union-funded Agents for Citizen-driven Action;
2021Coordinated in-country component of Political Economy Analysis component of Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
2020 – 2021Designed and led Monitoring and Evaluation for the evaluation of Higher Education Grant Partnerships in Nigeria for the British Council, which involved three UK universities and four Nigerian universities
2020Designed and led the Population Media Centre’s (PMC) Clinic Service Monitoring on of gender-based violence and reproductive health issues in 24 public and private clinics Ogun and Oyo states in southwest Nigeria. The study was a three-phased project
2019 – 2020Designed and lead a Flexi Track (household) Survey, which monitored and evaluated Jolokoto, a Yourba Language Serial Drama on gender-based violence and reproductive health issues in Ogun, Ondo and Oyo states in southwest Nigeria
2018-2019Designed and led the study on the Operational Framework for Transnational Education (TNE) in Nigeria  (involves collecting data from the United Kingdom and Nigerian Institutions) and development of:   Sample frameworks for the establishment of high-value transnational education; Operational frameworks for the establishment of international branch campuses; Legal and regulatory requirements for the establishment of high-value transnational education partnerships.
2018Designed and led a two-phase sequential evaluation of two radio dramas in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, in northeast Nigeria, that center on the promotion of regional stability through the strengthening of community security, local governance and peacebuilding/reconciliation, de-radicalisation and prevention of violent extremism, which are parts of a UNDP and German Government-funded Integrated Regional Stabilization of the Lake Chad Basin (IRSLCB) project in four West African countries that include cross-border processes of reconciliation and prevention of violent extremism.
2018Designed and led compilation of profiles and success stories of Commonwealth Fellowship and Scholarship Alumni in Nigeria
2017-2018Led the Nigerian case study on the Quality of Education in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Four Member Countries (Jordan, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan)
2016 – 2017Led design and implementation of a study on the Role of Language of Delivery in Cultural Relations: The Pidgin English Adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Two Noble Kinsmen’
2015 – 2016Coordinated and trained emerging researchers on the British Council-funded Girls Education Advocacy and Research network project, which had six research teams that implemented six research projects in six States in northern Nigeria
2014 – 2016Research Coordinator on the MacArthur-funded study on Teacher Education, Teacher Practice, Approaches to Gender and Girls’ Schooling Outcomes (a Study in Five Nigerian states)
2014 – 2015As a Research Officer for DFID’s Education Data Research and Evaluation in Nigeria (EDOREN), I coordinated the in-country process of Comparative Review of Basic Education Reforms in five Countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa)
2013 – 2013Led design and implementation of a study on English language use in Nigeria’s basic education
2013 –Gender and Community Mobilisation Team Lead at The Education Partnership Centre (TEP Centre).