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City of Refuge
Foursquare Church Sheffield
Optimising Your Study Programme at British Institutions
A One-day Capacity Building Symposium and Workshop
Programme Bulletin
Date: Saturday, 5th December 2015
Time: 10.00 am
Venue: Shiregreen Community Centre, 172- 184 Sicey Avenue, Sheffield S5 0RN
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Programme
Registration and Coffee 10.00 to 10.45
Opening Prayer & Welcome [Host] Pastor [Mrs] Abiodun Alabede 10.45 to 11.00
Programme Opening Address Paul Blomfield MP 11.00 to 11.10
Epistemology, Globalism and the Academy - Keynote Address
Professor Gus John 11.10 to 11.50
The Art of Delivering an Engaging and Educative Presentation
Professor Rotimi Jaiyesimi 11.50 to 12.20
Questions/Trolley Coffee 12.20 to 12.40
De-mystifying Research: a Journey from the Steelworks to the Home Office
Jon Parry 12.40 to 13.10
Questions 13.10 to 13.20
Lunch 13.20 to 14.00
Ubuntugogy & The Core Masteries of Independent Thinking: Achieving Hyper-productivity in Knowledge Intensive Domains
Terrence Brathwaite 14.00 to 14.30
Mechanics for Effective Review of Literature, Critical Academic Writing and the Construction of Winning Proposals
Dr Adegbola Ojo 14.30 to 15.10
Some success stories Dr Tosin Adesina and Samuel Ibeh 15.10 to 15.20
Further Questions / Open Plenary 15.20 to 15.40
Closing Remarks Mrs Nkechi Okoh 15.40 to 15.55
Closing Prayer Deacon Emmanuel Akpan 15.55 to 16.00
Pastor (Mrs) Abiodun Alabede
Senior Pastor, City of Refuge Foursquare Church, Sheffield
Abiodun Alabede is a devoted Christian and Senior Pastor of City of Refuge Foursuare
Church, Sheffield. She received the divine call to establish the parish in 2007 and
through her leadership and guidance, God has reached out to many lives – young and
old. Pastor Alabede is an inspiration for numerous ministers and leaders here and
abroad. She holds firmly to the re-assurance and belief that the love of Jesus can and should be extended
to all and sundry not only in words but in deeds. Her ministry is committed to preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ; Raising leaders through robust discipleship and training programmes; Setting captives free through
the word of God; and Assisting in poverty alleviation within the local community and abroad. Pastor
Alabede trained as a Nurse in Nigeria and Britain and she is currently a Ward Sister at the Weston Park
Hospital, Sheffield. She is married and blessed with three children.
Paul Blomfield MP
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central
Paul Blomfield has been the MP for Sheffield Central since 2010. Prior to his election he
worked at the University of Sheffield and has served as a Governor at Sheffield Hallam
University. In Parliament he is Secretary of the All-Party University Group and founded
the All-Party Students Group, of which he is Chair. He was voted the ‘Most Inspiring
Leader in Higher Education’ in the Guardian’s 2015 University Awards, and leads on HE issues for the
Business Innovation and Skills Select Committee. He is also the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Hilary Benn MP.
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Professor Gus John
International Consultant and Executive Coach, Honorary Fellow and Associate
Professor – UCL Institute of Education
Mobile: +44 (0)7539 476041 | [email protected] | www.gusjohn.com
Born in Grenada in 1945, Gus John has been involved in education, schooling,
community development and change management in Britain since the middle 1960s. He is an associate
professor and honorary fellow at the UCL Institute of Education and director of Gus John Consultancy
Limited and of All Africa Advisors. He is a member of the African Union’s Technical Committee of Experts
that is tasked with working out the modalities for making the Global African Diaspora the Sixth Region of
Africa. He has worked with governments in West and North Africa, helping to develop strategies for
meeting the Millennium Development Goals, with specific emphasis on education and youth development.
Prof John has recently completed a comparative case review for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA),
researching issues of bias and disproportionality in the SRA’s regulation of solicitors and their firms.
In 1989 he was appointed Director of Education in Hackney, the first black Director of Education in the UK.
When the two departments were amalgamated he became Hackney’s first Director of Education and
Leisure Services, a post he held for just under 8 years. Since leaving Hackney, Professor Gus John has been
working as an international development consultant in Britain, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean and was
until 2008 a Visiting Faculty Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde and Special Adviser to
Glasgow City Council on race and social inclusion. Between 2002 and 2007, he audited the Race Equality
Policies and Action Plans of all Higher Education Institutions in England, Scotland and Wales for their
respective funding councils.
In 2007, he assisted the Jamaica Ministry of Education with strategies for improving the quality of teaching
and of learning in the school sector and worked with the Government teacher training college, Shortwood,
in Kingston. Then and the following year, he assisted the Ministry in laying the foundations for establishing
a nationwide inspection and advisory service for schools and in reviewing schools’ approach to special
needs education.
He was an adviser to former Home Secretary Jack Straw on race and social inclusion and conducted a
consultation for the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on ‘Deaths in Custody’ and the over
representative number of black and Irish people who die in the custody of the State. He was a member of
the Channel 4 sponsored Street Weapons Commission into serious youth violence and gun- and knife-
enabled murders, ‘gang’ related and otherwise.
Prof Gus John has written extensively on issues relating to education, race, social action and civil unrest,
one of his latest publications being ‘The Case for a Learner’s Charter for Schools’. He is Patron of the
Communities Empowerment Network, a charity that provides advocacy and representation for excluded
students and their families.
He also works as a Special Adviser to the Methodist Church on Equality, Human Rights and Social Inclusion.
He is a former member of the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice and of the World Council of
Churches Programme to Combat Racism.
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Professor Rotimi Jaiyesimi
MBBS, FRCOG, FWACS, FFSRH, FRSPH, MBA, LL.M
Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland
Associate Medical Director for Patient Safety & Consultant Obstetrician &
Gynaecologist Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital, England
A 1978 graduate of the University of Ibadan Medical School, Nigeria, Professor Rotimi Jaiyesimi holds
postgraduate qualifications, an MBA from the University of Newcastle and a Masters degree in Medical
Law (LL.M) from Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.
He has been in active clinical practice for 37 years and a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist for over
22 years. He has worked in Nigeria, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the
West African College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG). He
brings with him a vast wealth of clinical and senior management experience. He is a Member College of
Experts, the National Institute of Health Research. Professor Jaiyesimi is an RCOG Assessor for
Performance and Service Reviews and a Member of Council of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists
Association.
Professor Jaiyesimi has wide and varied experience in healthcare regulation, serving as a member of the
UK General Medical Council Fitness to Practice Panels for 13 years and the UK Health Professions Council.
He is a skilled teacher, has lectured world-wide and has published 35 papers in peer-reviewed scientific
journals. He is a recognised Educator in Postgraduate Obstetrics & Gynaecology Medical Education and
Training, RCOG. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Perspectives in Public Health. He is an
international medico-legal expert, a trained mediator, mentor and coach.
He is a member of learned organisations that includes the Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists, British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy, American Association of Gynecologic
Laparoscopists, Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Nigeria, Society of Quality in Healthcare in
Nigeria and the Royal Society of Medicine.
Professor Jaiyesimi is a recipient of many awards, including the UK HSJ National Award for Innovation, First
recipient of the Medical Association of Nigerians Across Great Britain (MANSAG) Recognition award for his
contributions to training, mentoring and innovation, Winner of the Finalist at the UK NHS Health Enterprise
East Innovation Awards, 2014, First Prize Poster presentation at the British International Congress of
Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2010, The British Medical Association Research Award for Clinical Audit, 1997
and the Tutorial Systems International, England Travelling Fellowship, 1997. He is currently Associate
Medical Director for Patient Safety at Basildon University Hospital and Visiting Professor at the University
of Sunderland, England. Professor Jaiyesimi has been described as an asset to the UK National Health
Service.
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Jon Parry
Head of Research, Skills for Justice, Sheffield, UK
Jon Parry has 25 years experience of leading Research teams and delivering national
projects which have involved considerable collaboration with external partners across
the UK and Europe. He is currently the Head of Research at SfJ Research (part of Skills
for Justice, the standards setting body for the Justice, Community Safety, Legal, and
Government Services sectors.) He has worked for many years at a senior level in the public sector,
conducting and applying research in academic, policy and practitioner environments. This has included six
years as a Research Associate in the Politics Department at Sheffield University and a further six years as
the Researcher/Policy Adviser to the Labour Party’s Deputy Leader of the European Parliament.
Jon is currently working on a number of research and evaluation projects for a range of influential clients.
This includes commissions from the Home office, Welsh Government, College of Policing, Ministry of Justice,
Her Majesty’s Prison Service and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. His recent research topics
have included evaluation of ‘blue-light’ interoperability, research into restorative justice, evaluation of further
education courses, measuring the effectiveness of National Vocational Qualifications and research into
Apprenticeships. Working in partnership with a number of UK universities, he is also a co-investigator on
two large-scale national projects conducting research and evaluation in the field of evidenced based
policing. Jon recently lead a successful consortium bid (with the universities of Nottingham Birmingham
and West Scotland) to deliver a prestigious national evaluation of emergency services collaboration for the
government. The report was published to wide acclaim on the final day of the last parliament.
Jon’s specialist areas of research include education and employment, social exclusion, children and young
people and widening participation. He is committed to a hands-on/grassroots approach to research which
has seen him deliver innumerable small surveys and large longitudinal surveys, carry out focus groups,
conduct interviews, engage in participant observation and apply action research techniques. Jon’s work
has been published in academic and professional journals and has been featured on the BBC. He co-
authored (alongside Dr. Ade Ojo) the most recent UK Sector Skills Assessments (both the Government
Services sector and the Professional Services sector), for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
(UKCES) and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
In his previous role as Research Manager working across all four local authorities in South Yorkshire, Jon
completed a comprehensive analysis of Child Poverty within the sub-region broken down to ward and area
assembly level which was used to inform the strategic response to this critically important issue. He also
researched and produced the Children and Young People’s Needs Analysis for 3 local metropolitan councils
- these were aimed at evaluating all aspects of service delivery and support to young people and vulnerable
groups.
In addition to his experience in research and evaluation, Jon has substantial technical expertise in statistical
analysis software such as SPSS, NVivo and GIS (Mapinfo) and is a qualified practitioner in Prince2 and Social
Return on Investment methods. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and has successfully completed post-
graduate studies in Research Methods and Education. His MA thesis focused on the participation of young
people within their communities and he is now looking to expand on this through investigating inter-
generational ‘communities of practise.’
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Terrence Wendell Brathwaite
Senior Lecturer in Law, The Coventry Law School, Faculty of Business & Law, Coventry
University, Coventry, West Midlands, UK
Terry is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Coventry Law School and ATLAS
Expert/European Union Adviser to the Russian Government & Higher Education
Institutions on Tourism Human Resource Development & Social Marketing for the
(€)1.5 million TEMPUS/EU Project 2012-15. He is also the Co-ordinator of the Law School’s ‘Career in Law’
Legal Workshop 2015, former Course Director of the School of Marketing & Management’s Chartered
Management Initiative Programme, Founding Convenor of the world’s first MSc Degree in Global
Development & International Law (GDIL), and former International Consultant (Industrial Medicine) to the
British Council in Kazakhstan.
Prior to Coventry University, Terry served as Social Marketing & Programme Coordinator (International
Training & Development) to the multilateral World Trade Institute of Latin America & The Caribbean
(WTILAC), Executive Consultant (Human Productivity Management) to the Secretary General of the
regional Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisations (CANTO), and Project
Coordinator (Social Marketing) at the School of Continuing Studies, University of the West Indies - formerly
a College of the University of London (UK). He has held visiting lectureships at Harvard University (Boston,
USA), the CENTRUM Católica Business School (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – Lima, Peru), the
National Normal University of Taiwan (Rep. of China), the Universities of Tomsk & Kemerovo (Siberia), the
Emirates Aviation University (Dubai), the University of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, (Rep.
of China), the FHWien University (Vienna, Austria), and the American University in London in the UK, just to
name a few.
Terry has vast global professional experience which spans over 30 years, during which he worked in North
America, South America, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Europe, settling eventually in the UK. An
accredited Commercial Mediator, Investors in People Adviser and Action Profile Practitioner, his main
research interests are Global Development Management, Law & Social Justice. Terry is also a Chartered
Marketeer & Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Companion of the Institute of Sales &
Marketing Management, a Fellow of the International Institute of Law & Medicine, and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
Finally, after retiring in 1980 as a Principal Dancer/Choreographer who had travelled and performed
internationally for 10 years with the world renowned Trinidad Ballet Company, Terry re-trained, qualified
and has since maintained a parallel 20+ year career as a practising Dance Movement
Psychotherapist/Creative Arts Therapy Clinical Supervisor. He was appointed Head of the Dance Movement
Therapy Department at the Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies West Midlands (1993-to date). Based on
his wealth of experience as a clinician in this field, in 2010 Terry also designed and launched the world’s first
MSc Degree in Integrated Dance Movement Psychotherapy at the University of Worcester (UK).
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Dr Adegbola Ojo
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores
University
Fellow in Big Data Analytics & Applied Geocomputation and Centre Research
Coordinator, Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies, Liverpool John Moores
University
[email protected] | www.adegbolaojo.co.uk | www.nigerianlgaclassification.com
Adegbola holds a PhD in Quantitative Human Geography from the University of Sheffield; a Master’s
degree in Geographic Information Science from the University College London; a BSc. in Geography and
Planning Sciences from the University of Ado-Ekiti; and a Diploma in Computer Studies from the Obafemi
Awolowo University Consultancy Centre.
He is currently Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for a number of research students at the School of
Humanities and Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Fellow in Big data Analytics and
Applied Geocomputation at the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies (LCAPS) where he is also
responsible for implanting and managing the entire undergraduate and postgraduate research
programmes of the centre. Additionally, Dr Ojo is currently an International Consultant and Specialist in
Urban Analytics and Data Visualisation for ICF International on a Department for International
Development (DfID) sponsored large-scale research programme.
Adegbola is credited with developing the first set of small area segmentation systems that address policy
specific needs of developing countries. The impact of his research has triggered collaborations and special
recognitions from the innaugural/current Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside Region; the
former Chief Fire Officer of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service; the Special Adviser to the immediate past
Nigerian President on the Niger Delta; and the immediate past Senior Special Assistant to the Nigerian
President on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He has also made a couple of media appearances
in connection with the outputs and impact of his research. At various times, he has been Principal
Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, Named Researcher and Consultant on major research programmes
and projects which in total have attracted funding in excess of £5 million. He was Senior Researcher in
Labour Market Intelligence and Geographic Information Analysis at Skills for Justice where he co-authored
a variety of strategically important publications with Jon Parry. Dr Ojo has been an invited speaker on many
platforms and he has held positions at the University of York/The Yorkshire and Humber Public Health
Observatory; the London School of Economics and Political Science; and the Sheffield City Council. He has
also been a member of the Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group at the Geography Department of
University of Sheffield and a member of the University of Sheffield International Development Network
(SIDNET). Adegbola has published his work widely and he reviews papers for a range of interdisciplinary
journals. He is also proposal reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Dr Ojo’s research activities are grouped around the development and application of small area
classifications, geographic information systems and science for informing public policy. He has particular
interest in developing multidisciplinary research methods for investigating socio-economic inequalities and
inequities at varying small spatial scales. A series of research themes and application areas include: Census
and Social Survey Research Practice; Geodemographics; Planning Support Systems for Crime Science and
Intelligent Policing; Urban Geography; Space-time Dynamics of Population Mobility; Geographies of Health,
Security and Development Studies; and Big Data Analytics. Adegbola is a Christian who believes in
developing and applying our God-given talents in different spheres of positive influence. He is married to
Funmilola (a Business Analyst and Economist) and they are blessed with two children – Damilola and Dapo.
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