Prof. Adebusuyi Isaac ADENIRAN
Areas of expertise: Social Change and Development; Migration Studies
Qualifications: B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD
Office: Acting Head
Email: adebusuyi@oauife.edu.ng
Phone: +234 (0) 8038927900
Location: Room 129, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran holds a PhD degree in Social Sciences (Sociology of Development) and presently works as a Professor of Sociology, Migration and Development Studies and the Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology/Communication and Media Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria. His research focal areas include in migration, crime, anti-corruption, conflict, regional integration, sustainable development and research methodology. He is a National Research Consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Nigeria on Migration and Anti-Corruption and also a Visiting Researcher at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has received copious academic awards, in forms of scholarship, fellowship, study and research grants, from notable academic and research based institutions, such as University of Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Pittsburgh, United States, York University, Canada, University of Oldenburg, Germany, Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden, South-South Exchange Program on History of Development (SEPHIS), TheNetherlands, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Senegal, Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada, International Sociological Association (ISA), Center for Science Studies, Calcutta (CSSSC), India, Atlas Network, United States, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Greece, and International Science Council (ISC), France. He is a research reviewer at the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa and a research arbitrator/external examiner at both University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa and University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has ably served on the editorial board of Working USA: Journal of Labor and Society.
For nearly a decade, He has been a reviewer for Critical Sociology (Sage), International Migration (Wiley Blackwell) Evaluation Review (Sage), The Oriental Anthropologist (Sage), Gender and Society (Sage), Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer), Canadian Journal of African Studies (Routledge), Ethnic and Racial Studies (Taylor and Francis), Journal of Borderlands Studies (Taylor and Francis), Africa Today (Indiana University Press), Environmental Justice (University of Illinois), International Journal of Cyber Criminology (http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/) and East Asian Integration Studies (http://asianintegration.org/). He is currently the co-editor of ‘African Review of Migration and Environment’ (ARME) and a member of the editorial advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom. He has, as well, functioned as an editor for Wiley-Blackwell in 2012 and as an author for Palgrave Macmillan and CODESRIA since 2012.
He is the author of ‘Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa: A Borderless ECOWAS’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), ‘Migration Crises in 21st Africa: Patterns, Processes and Projections’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and ‘African Development and Global Engagements: Policy, Climate Change and Covid-19’ (Springer, 2022). He is the co-author of ‘Regional Economic Communities: Exploring the Process of Socio-economic Integration in Africa’ (CODESRIA, 2015), ‘Africa Now: Emerging Issues and Alternative Perspectives’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and ‘ICT and Food Security in Africa’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). He has used cogent social science methods to research and publish over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters and reviews on Sub-Saharan Africa. He has participated in more than 70 distinguished academic fora (conferences, workshops, symposiums, and trainings) in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America between 2005 and 2024. He was the convener of the 2023 African Conference on Transnational Organized Crimes (AICTOC) held at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, which had participants from Africa, Europe, North and South America. He specializes in social research design, field investigation and data management.