Dr Seun Kolade

Dr Seun Kolade is a sessional lecturer in Development and Urbanisation at London South Bank University (LSBU). He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; a postgraduate teaching certificate in Higher Education from University College London; and a PhD in International Development from LSBU.
Dr Kolade has authored journal articles and conference presentations on agricultural innovations, post-disaster preparedness and response, and entrepreneurship in conflict environments.

Dr Kolade’s research covers a broad range of interests, including diffusion of innovations, cooperatives and social capital, post-disaster preparedness and response, agricultural value chain analysis, and innovations and entrepreneurship in developing countries.
In his PhD research, he examined the impact of social capital, especially in cooperatives, on farmers’ uptake of technological innovations in rural southwest Nigeria. He also examined the role of institutional factors, including markets, property rights and access to capital, on the success of adopted innovations.
Following his PhD he has conducted impact studies of entrepreneurship education on venture creation and poverty reduction in conflict ridden Northern Nigeria. He has also investigated the impact of social capital on preparedness, and responses to the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria. He has examined the contributions of religious actors to the provision of universal basic education in Nigeria.