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Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele

Research Assistant (IWP3)

Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He got his first Ph.D. on climate change communication to farmers in Nigeria from the Department of Communication and Language Arts University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he also had his first and second degrees (B.A. & M.A.), and he was a Teaching Assistant for five years. Furthermore, he was a research assistant to two lead researchers on grants won by the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan. Also in Nigeria, he was a lecturer and researcher at Bowen University Iwo, Osun State, and Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, before he came to Canada in 2022 for another Ph.D. in environmental sociology. His research interests are in environment, social movements, development, climate change, health, and media. He has contributed some publications on these cross-disciplinary areas to scholarship and attended research training, summer schools and conferences both in Nigeria and abroad.

Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele

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Research funding was provided by the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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