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Spotlight on
Dr Olumide Adisa
Dr Olumide Adisa of University of Suffolk, has a cross-disciplinary
research experience straddling both economics and sociology.
Prior to joining the University of Suffolk in March
2017, Olumide worked as the Research Lead
examining live at home schemes in the UK and the
role of third sector partnership working at the
Methodist Homes in helping older people live
independently in their homes.
Olumide has held various senior management
positions in the voluntary sector in the UK and
overseas over the last 10 years.
She completed her PhD in economic sociology at
the University of Nottingham in 2016. Her
doctoral thesis primarily applied statistics and
econometric modelling to investigate and
understand the determinants and the health
consequences of economic vulnerability amongst
ageing households in West Africa - using the
NGHPS dataset collected by the World Bank and
NBS in 2004 and 2010.
She is extending the use of these household
datasets to explore other health equity and
vulnerability issues. Olumide has a crossdisciplinary
research experience straddling both
economics and sociology. Her core specialisms are
in applying economic and sociological methods in
the fields of domestic abuse, social exclusion,
health equity, and economic development.
She also teaches and contributes to development
economics and research methodology courses.
Olumide is a member of the Suffolk Institute for
Social and Economic Research. She currently
works on a range of projects as a principal
investigator.
Examples of Olumide's ongoing projects:
Evaluating the money advice for survivors of
domestic abuse, in partnership with Anglia Care
Trust - completed April 2018.
Access to Justice: Assessing the Impact of the
Magistrates' Court Closures in Suffolk - report
launched in July 2018, with Suffolk's Public Sector
Leaders.
Evaluating a social mobility pilot project in
Suffolk, in partnership with four secondary
schools and Suffolk County Council.
Evaluating the Norfolk and Suffolk “Project
SafetyNet” pilot service for migrant domestic
abuse victims.
The Venta project: working with male
perpetrators of VACC (violence, abuse, coercion,
and control), in partnership with Iceni.
Evaluating the economic justice project --- routine
screening for economic abuse into the delivery of
domestic violence services (partners: Surviving
Economic Abuse and Solace Women's Aid)
Public Perceptions of the VCSE sector in Suffolk,
in partnership with Commuity Action Suffolk -
completed September 2018.
Evaluation of the Satellite Refuge Project -
Suffolk. Assessing the confidence levels of charity
managers (risk, governance, and compliance to
regulations) - completed September 2018.
Making The Invisible Visible