Dr Adegbola Ojo

Dr Adegbola Ojo is Director of Teaching and Learning, Programme Leader for BA Geography, and Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography and Applications of Big Data at the University of Lincoln, UK.

His research interests include Census and Social Survey Research Practice; Geodemographics; Urban Geography; Space-time Dynamics of Human Population Mobility; Planning Support Systems for Crime Science and Intelligent Policing; Geographies of Health, Security and Development Studies; Big Data Analytics; Electoral and Political Geography; and African Development Studies.

Dr Ojo has very high international esteem, having served as or won awards as Invited Speaker, Urbanisation Research Nigeria Conference, 2018; Visiting Scholar, University of Maribor, 2017; Sessional Chair, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017; British Academy Skills Innovator Award Holder  2016; Conference Organiser, Worldwide Best Practices in Rape Prevention and Assisting Victims/Survivors of Rape, 2016; Conference Organiser, Police and Public Transport Partnership: Value of Data Analysis and Structural Research, 2016; Conference Organiser, Optimising Academic Programmes at British Institutions, Sheffield, UK, 2015; Research Impact Special Recognition, Merseyside Police Force; Research Impact Award Prize, Skills for Justice, 2011; Shell Centenary Scholarship Award, University College London, 2004.

He has accomplished important Africa-focused projects such as the Nigerian Geodemographic Classification System; Urban Crime in Nigeria: Trends, Costs and Policy Considerations; Development of a City Infrastructure Quality Index; and A Stand-alone Tool for Visual Analysis of Socio-spatial Disparities in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria.