Dr Sola Adesola

Dr Sola Adesola, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is an innovative, talented, entrepreneurial and versatile professional with over 20 years post graduation experience that spans the public sector, legal industry,manufacturing and the academia. She is a Senior Lecturer , academic board member, diversifying leadership champion, and Chair, Brookes Africa Forum, which she single-handedly initiated and developed in 2008 at Oxford Brookes University. She has many years experience of international collaboration. She serves as external validation panel expert and Buddy to Nilai University, Hong Kong, IIMT India, Visiting Professor to Kigali University, Rwanda. Responsible as internal and external examiner for PhD and MSc programmes as well as Buddy for PhD mock viva.

Sola completed two funded research totalling over £64,500 on enterprise education projects for academics and students in Nigeria. She was involved in the design, delivery and income generation of executive programmes at Oxford Brookes University of over £52,000.

She has contributed immensely to advancing higher education in/for Nigeria, an advocate for strengthening the UK-Africa higher education partnership in teaching, research and knowledge exchange. She chaired and acted as invited speakers at conferences, and workshops.

Previously she was a Research Fellow at Cranfield University on a 3 year EPSRC funded research project in supply chain positioning and coordinating the Human Performance Modelling Network.

She has successfully produced four PhDs and currently has three PhD researchers as both Director of Studies and supervisor. She has published widely in national and international peer reviewed publications. She is a multi-award winner for her contributions to Education.