Resume
Education
2022 - Present
University of Cambridge, King's College, PhD Candidate, Sociology
My research is focused on the interplay between power and participation on social media platforms as an approach to understand online visibility in Nigeria.
2021 - 2022
University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, School of Global and Area Studies, MSc African Studies
My thesis was an online study of the Twitter (now X) Influencer economy and its implications for digital transformation in Nigeria. My research received the 2022 Terence Ranger Prize for the best dissertation.
2020 -2021
University of Cambridge, King's College, Department of Politics and International Studies, MPhil Development Studies
My research explored the political economy of digital technologies in Africa, including how they reproduce racial power relations, using the Johannesburg’s 2016 ‘Safe City’ AI initiatives as a case study.
2015 - 2019
University of Ibadan, Independence Hall, BSc Sociology
Papers include: Introductory Economics; The Study of Politics; ICT and Social Order; Statistics for Social Sciences; Science, Industry & Mankind; Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development; and Sociology of Development. I graduated as the best student in the Faculty of the Social Sciences, winning 14 awards in all.
Teaching/
Fellowships
2024 - Present
Teaching Supervisor, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
I teach undergraduates on the following topics: 'Control and Resistance in Digital Societies’, ‘Visibility’, ‘Media, Design & Morality’, and ‘Populism, Media and Democracy’ under the course modules ‘Modern Societies II: Global Social Problems and Dynamics of Resistance’ and ‘Media, Culture, and Society’.
2024 - Present
Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge
My research fellowship is focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and influencership in Nigeria, as a case study to explore the adoption and usage of AI in the creative labour economy in Africa.
2024 - 2025
Teaching Fellow, Cambridge Digital Humanities, UK
Designed course content, including the reading materials, and taught a tripartite module on tools and methods for sourcing a research idea online, considering social media research ethical complexities, and conducting social media ethnography.
Work Experience
Data Quality Personnel, University of Oxford
-Provided support for new participant data migrations onto the University’s central database and tested new system updates of the software for data fixes.
-Researched and processed duplicate records in the University’s central database to ensure data consistency.
2022
2019 - 2020
Government and External Relations Executive, CSR-In-Action
-Wrote the post-event report writing for the 2019 Civil Society Organisation Professionalism, Effectiveness and Therapy (CSO-CPET).
-Collected and analysed quantitative and qualitative data for sustainability report writing in line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
-Led the social media campaign and worked as a Resource Personnel for the largest Sustainability Conference in West Africa, the 2019 Sustainability In The Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference.
-Conducted market research analysis to identify trends, market opportunities and competitor performance for the organisation.
Public Relations and Communications Assistant, Lagos State Governor's Office, Parastatals Monitoring Office (PMO)
2015
-Wrote press releases for the various Governor and the Special Adviser, PMO, outings for onward editing by the Director of Press (PMO).
-Co-organised the quarterly meeting between the CEOs of Parastatals and the Governor and also the monthly PMO Special Adviser meeting with the CEOs.
-Studied the objectives, promotional policies, and needs of various State parastatals to develop their Public Relations strategies and promote their ideas & services.
-Prepared and edited organisational publications for internal and external audiences, including employee newsletters and the Directory of Parastatals and Government-owned Companies in Lagos.