Affiliateship: 2021-2025
Cohort 6
Country (Nationality)
Nigeria
Discipline
Geological, Environmental, Earth & Space Sciences
Bio
Dr Olumuyiwa Adegun is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure. Nigeria. He completed his PhD at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits), South Africa with a thesis that explored Just Sustainability at the nexus of Informal Settlement Intervention and Green Infrastructure. He is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; was Guest Researcher at Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden (2018); and Visiting Scholar, Canada Centre for Architecture, Montreal (2016). He is currently a DAAD ClimapAfrica Scholar where he moderates the international Working Group on ‘Climate Change and Land Use’.
Dr Adegun’s main research interests and engagements have dealt with issues related to environmental sustainability in low-income housing and slums/informal settlements within cities in sub-Sahara Africa. His recent works, supported through the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Programme, Africa Academy of Sciences (AAS) and within framework of DAAD ClimapAfrica Programme, focus on climate adaptation within informal urban settlements in Nigeria and other parts of sub-Sahara Africa. He has authored many peer-reviewed and popular articles in this research area; and presented his work internationally.