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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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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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City of Refuge Foursquare Church Sheffield

45 Holbrook Road, Sheffield S13 8AW, United Kingdom.

+44-07912315325 • [email protected] • www.fgccor.org

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