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Olalekan Aduloju

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#Lecturer (PhD)
#urbanplanner
Environmental politics
Land Rights and Risks Expert; and new research frontier- Urban Agriculture & Political Ecology

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It's fun time. ✌️ by @kbro_10

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2 years ago

Decided to replace my pen with a mic today. #interesting taken in Kingsway Campus by @kbro_10

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This reel presents a snapshot of my research lab —Urban Political Ecology Research Lab. In this research lab, we take on a critical and ambitious challenge on introducing and grounding Urban Political Ecology (UPE) within the Nigerian urban landscape. We are concerned in tightly exploring how the vocabulary of power finds its fullest expression in how cities are historically and materially produced and (re-)produced. We anchor our mission in a new pursuit to reconceptualise how we 'read,' 'listen,' and 'feel' cities.

By leveraging the burning passion of our students facilitating discussions on UPE, we are poised to critique the managerial, technocratic and apolitical views interrogating socio-nature relations as a natural phenomenon. Instead, we will be arguing that the socio-ecological processes reconstructing Nigerian cities and beyond are deeply political.

By drawing real life case studies and research projects, our students, with aplomb are ready to begin excavating the processes that go into unevenly produced urban environments. Through Lab meetings, they will synthesise how material conditions driven by capitalism are controlled, manipulated and serve the interests of the elite at the expense of marginalised populations.

Please join us on this important journey by liking, commenting and sharing.
The first episode drops tomorrow on our YouTube Channel. Check our bio for the 🔗#urbanpolitics #urbanpoliticalecology #urbanmetabolism by @kbro_10

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I have known few greater honours than the opportunity of receiving the University of Chester Careers and Employability Rising Star Award on 28 May 2026.

Being ushered forward by a diverse and supportive audience, with applause that filled the room, is indeed a memorable moment.

They created the familiar and humbling atmosphere that acknowledged that success runs on one’s courage and character. This recognition of my contributions to the University and beyond reaffirms a belief I hold dearly: that a life devoted to making a meaningful impact is extremely rewarding.

Today, had me eavesdropping on history by paraphrasing a line from John F. Kennedy’s address: It’s not the first 1000 days that matter, what matters is ‘let’s us begin.’ It wasn’t the first 1000 days of my PhD that mattered; what mattered was just to begin.

Today is a testament to the fact that something greater than your voice can defend you, that's your work. This award was a journey that witnessed the demise of my mum but ended in praise. During this journey, I took heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena,
“whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly....”

As I stand at the doorway of a new chapter, this allows me to paraphrase President Lyndon B. Johnson’s address, inspired by John F. Kennedy. It’s not the last 1000 days that matter; what matters is ‘let us continue.’

Let us continue to define our passion by what life means to us. Let us continue to predict the future by creating a life where passion feels like a profession. Let us take on the responsibility of writing more about the story we did not begin.

In closing, this victory is not for me, the victory is for everyone and every institution that believed in me.
Finally, I want to than taken in University of Chester by @kbro_10

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Embrace moments when passion becomes a profession. by @kbro_10

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The last 365 days in summary. Happy birthday to me today.
Watchwords: Psalms 103:1-2; Isaiah 41:10 by @kbro_10

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10 months ago

A week ago, across trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific geographies, the University of Birmingham pulled the very big names in the field of Geography, Urban Planning, Social Sciences, and Humanities. In the largest RGS-IBG conference outside London, we had the rare opportunity to surrender ourselves to a very refreshing long week of academic exercises.

From the parallel sessions that hosted over 2100 delegates, workshops, keynote speakers' addresses, to meet and greet over coffee and private dinners, I had the opportunity of renewing my sense of place in research, forging connections, building capacities, and growing international links.

Perhaps what stood out for me is how varied scholars continue to accept the obligation to tease out new imaginaries. In the face of shreveling funding opportunities and academic placements, we continue to define ourselves by what we are for and not we are against. They carry forward new thinking, placing research as the last hope of science.

📹 credit @catherinetommy_
#rgs2025 taken in University of Birmingham by @kbro_10

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A week ago, across trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific geographies, the University of Birmingham hosted the very big names in the field of Geography, Urban Planning, Social Sciences, and Humanities. In the largest RGS-IBG conference outside London, we had the rare opportunity to surrender ourselves to a very refreshing long week of academic exercises.

From the parallel sessions that hosted over 2100 delegates, workshops, keynote speakers' addresses, to meet and greet over coffee and private dinners, I had the opportunity of renewing my sense of place in research, forging connections, building capacities, and growing international links.

Perhaps what stood out for me is how varied scholars continue to accept the obligation to tease out new imaginaries. In the face of shreveling funding opportunities and academic placements, we continue to define ourselves by what we are for and not we are against. They carry forward new thinking, placing research as the last hope of science.

📹 credit: @catherinetommy_
#RGS2025 taken in University of Birmingham Library by @kbro_10

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Happy New Month. by @kbro_10

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June was about posthumans. A distinct opportunity to see what a second nature feels like.
📸 Credit:REO by @kbro_10

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Give true a true meaning to life with assignments; leave the rest to faith. by @kbro_10

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Happy New Month by @kbro_10

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