Dr. Paul Oluwatomipe Adekola

Paul Oluwatomipe Adekola is an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the School of Public Health, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria. Paul has eleven years of teaching, research and administrative experience at the university level in Nigeria. Since the year 2020, he has had postgraduate training in Nigeria, Ghana, Portugal, Poland and Switzerland under different projects. He is a trained geographer, demographer and social statistician with expertise in migration, population, health and development, gender and women's studies, and quantitative/qualitative analyses. Paul is passionate about migrants, including displaced persons and other vulnerable populations. He is a member of relevant professional organizations like the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) and the Population Association of Nigeria (PAN). He received the Coimbra Scholarship, an annual scholarship awarded to bright young scholars and promising early-career researchers from Africa to conduct three months' research at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He also received an Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Scholarship for training on climate change and migration at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in 2020. Paul is currently on a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he is working on the return and readmission of illegal migrants of African origin.