UJ Institute for the Future of Knowledge

Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo

Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo

Research Associate

Dr Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests covering Africa-China migrations, settlement and belonging, migration health, urban transformations and knowledge production. He is a Research Fellow in the Diaspora and Transnational Studies programme, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the ARUA/Carnegie Early Career Fellowship in the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Migration and Mobility, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Development from the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/African Humanities Program (AHP) Dissertation Completion and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Fellow of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), Scholar of the Postgraduate School Scholarship of University of Ibadan (2014-2016), and Laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). His has published in International Sociology, Migration Studies, Mobilities, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Field Methods, Global Public Health, Global Networks, Third World Quarterly, The Professional Geographer and others.