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Dr. Samson Oladejo is a full-time Lecturer in Business Management at the School of Leadership, Management, and Marketing, Leicester Castle Business School within the Faculty of Business and Law, 51Âþ»­. With over two decades of professional academic practice, Dr. Oladejo specializes in the fields of business management, leadership management, and entrepreneurship education.

His research and publications cover a wide range of areas including risk and crisis management, entrepreneurship education, digital business and emerging technology, organizational resilience, strategy, and innovation. Dr. Oladejo's research focuses on Africa, management, and entrepreneurship education from an interdisciplinary perspective. He actively welcomes PhD research proposals aligned with his expertise and has presented his work at national and international conferences.

Dr. Oladejo holds a PhD in Discourses of Risk, Educational Crisis, and Inclusive Education, an MSc (Distinction) in Educational Leadership and Management, and a BSc. Ed (Double Hons) in Mathematics Education. His teaching expertise lies in crisis management, business continuity, organizational management, and strategy. He emphasizes independent study habits, creativity, and innovation in his teaching, using digital technologies. Dr. Oladejo is recognized for his research impact, collaboration with organizations, and leadership experience in the teaching profession.

The Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI)

• Oladejo, S. O. & Mafimisebi, O. P. (2021). Risk Society as a Framework for Exploring Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria. In Kolade, O., Rae, D., Obembe, D. & Woldesenbet Beta, K (Eds) (In Press). The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-75894-3
• Alabi, M., Oladejo, S. O., & Mafimisebi, O. P. (2021). The nexus between Nigerian universities entrepreneurship training and digital technology. In Kolade, O., Rae, D., Obembe, D. & Woldesenbet Beta, K (Eds) (In Press). The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-75894-3
• Matemba, Y., & Oladejo S. O. (2019). Free but unattainable: children’s rights, access to basic education and discourses of risk from young people in Lagos City, Nigeria: A paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) at Hamburg University Germany, September 2019.
  
• Oladejo S.O (2017). Universal Basic Education in Developing Countries: Failure of Policy Implementation and Its Impact on Rural Communities in Nigeira. An abstract submitted and accepted for the University of West of Scotland Students Research Conference 2017.

• Crisis and Business Continuity Management
• Digital Business and Emerging Technologies
• Risk and Crisis Management
• Crisis Communication
• Entrepreneurship Education
• Social entrepreneurship
• Business analytic and data insight
• Strategy, Innovation and Enterprise
• Entrepreneurial Resilience
• Commercialization of Research
• Research methods.

• Crisis Management
• Business Continuity Management,
• Organizational Management
• Leadership and Innovation
• Innovation and Technology Management

• PhD in Discourses of Risk, Educational Crisis, and Inclusive Education for young people with low socioeconomic backgrounds
• MSc (Distinction) in Educational Leadership and Management
• BSc. Ed (Double Hons) in Mathematics Education
• FHEA

• Crisis and Business Continuity Management (Module Leader)
• Organisational Management
• Business and Sustainability
• Global Strategic Management
• Innovation and Technology Management
• Global Contemporary Business Issues
• Leading Change and Innovation, Strategic Management
• Mgmt. Bus & Org in a Global Environment
• Critical Management in a Global Context
• Global Strategic Management
• Global Contemporary Business Issues
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Professional Field Experience (Global MBA)
• Executive Company Project
• Dissertation Supervision (PG - Level 7)

I received a strong recommendation for the BAL of the BALL Awards 2023, highlighting outstanding contributions to teaching and learning.

Nomination for the Student Choice Teaching Awards 2023. 

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

• 51Âþ»­ Learning and Teaching Conference (January 2024)
• 7th Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED 2023) School of Business and Creative Industries University of the West of Scotland, Paisley
• The Early Career Researchers Conference – SIIB2023, University of Manchester.
• 1st Conference of Research in Entreprenuership, Education and Technology (CREET, 2023) University of Ottawa, Canada.
• European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) at Hamburg University Germany, September 2019
• 2019 JOINT CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN EDUCATION between School of Education and Social Sciences, Division of Education, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK and Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Norway
• University of the West of Scotland Postgraduate Student Learning, Teaching and Research Conference, 2019
• First International Conference on African Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ICAEI 2019), 51Âþ»­ Leicester, United Kingdom
• Annual University of West of Scotland Students Research Conference 2017.

1. Yin Wang, 2nd Supervisor: Big Data Analytics in Management

2. Zhaoyu Ma: Empowering Chinese SMEs: Leveraging Intelligent Supply Chain Devices for Enhanced Warehouse Efficiency.

3. Dibia, Mrs. Elizabeth Ifeyinwa 2nd supervisor

4. Adesina Emmanuel Odesanya Additional supervisor

David Chanu

 (BIG CIRCLE) - £2,500 by International Network of Universities, INU (Team member, 2023-2024

 Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) Resilience - £789.60 Internal faculty funding from the Faculty of Business and Law, Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (Principal Investigator, 2023-2024)