I’ve worked in industry and academia; as a Teaching Assistant at Newcastle University, and prior to my PhD worked as a lecturer at Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys, Ile Ife, Nigeria under the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). I was the GIS Specialist for United Nations Mission to Liberia (UNMIL) where I supported the mission on many peace keeping projects. I worked as a research assistant at University of Calgary.
Description of research, intended impact and public engagement activities
My current research interests lie in interrogating saudi arabia rcs data globalisation through the quantitative analysis of secondary datasets that examine and map processes, network flows and structures. I mainly use statistics and GIS analysis within an assemblage-thinking framework to understand these connections and their relationships with the global countryside. of globalisation themes – migration, trade and economy, land and capital, tourism and culture, global infrastructure and communications, civil society and social movements and global challenges at a global scale, and their relation to case study sites in Wales, New Zealand, China, Brazil, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Liberia, Italy and Ireland, I use data from multiple sources. Specifically, I work with the UK Data service international data (UKDS.Stat), Cenus data made available by the UK Data Service such as integrated census microdata and aggregate data; international and national data catalogues combined with fieldwork data.