Edward Ademolu

6

Articles

16

Comments

Edward is a qualitative social scientist with cross-disciplinary interest in International Development, Media Communications, Visual Representations and the African Diaspora. He uses a range of qualitative and visual methodologies including interviews, focus group discussions, photoelicitation, artwork, and discourse analysis to understand and problematise the role that (racialised) representations of global poverty and inequality in media and by international development and philanthropic organisations, have in shaping audience’s subjectivities, dispositions and behaviours. So too, how audiences interpret, challenge and re-appropriate the symbolic and material effects of these representations in their everyday lives.

Beyond this substantive focus, Edward is broadly interested in ideas, questions, concepts and the application of (media and cultural) representation, identity and cultural competency in a variety of social, community and professional contexts.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Lecturer, King's College London
  • 2019–2021
    Postdoctoral fellow, LSE

Education

  • 2021 
    LSE , PGCertHE
  • 2018 
    The University of Manchester, PhD Development Policy & Management

Publications

  • 2024
    Appreciating dyslexic thinking in qualitative research: reflections and recommendations for culturally competent, neuro-inclusive academia, Higher Education
  • 2024
    Laughing from the Outside‐In: Considering ‘What's Up Africa’as an (other) humorous humanitarian digilantism, Journal of International Development
  • 2023
    Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un) preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research, The Journal of Development Studies
  • 2023
    Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’, Qualitative Research
  • 2021
    Racialised representations of Black African poverty in INGO communications and implications for UK African diaspora: Reflections, lessons and recommendations, Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing
  • 2021
    A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’, Visual Studies
  • 2020
    ‘An outward sign of an inward grace’: how African diaspora religious identities shape their understandings of and engagement in international development, Identities
  • 2019
    Youth transitions: mobility and the travel intentions of 12–20 year olds, Reading, UK, Children's Geographies
  • 2019
    Who Gets to Talk About NGO Images of Global Poverty?, Photography and Culture
  • 2019
    Seeing and Being the Visualised 'Other': Humanitarian Representations and hybridity in African Diaspora identities, Identities

Professional Memberships

  • Development Studies Association
  • Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy)

Contact Edward for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision