Dr Oluwatoyin Adejonwo-Osho
Dr. Oluwatoyin Adejonwo is a Senior Lecturer in Law. She holds a PhD in International Environmental Law from the School of Law, University of Dundee, and she is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Her research interest includes climate change governance, climate change and sustainable development policy, climate justice, just transition, climate mobility, and gender equality and human rights. She has significant experience in research, and policy advisory on these themes.
Prior to her current role at Birmingham City University, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN). She was appointed an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Law by the School of Law, University of Dundee (December 2023 – December 2027). She is the Founding Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainable Development (3CSD).
Oluwatoyin is co-editor of the book titled ‘’, published by Pretoria University Law Press (ISBN: 978-1-7764117-3-3). The book questions the human rights paradigm as an intervention to ensure climate change justice for vulnerable populations in Africa. She has taught environmental law at several universities, including Abertay University. She was at various times a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Oluwatoyin has presented at various academic conferences and Workshops. She recently presented her research titled ‘Just Transition as a Social Protection Strategy: Enhancing Resilience and Livelihoods in Climate-Affected Communities in Africa’ at the FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium. She also recently participated at the Harvard Law School’s Climate Justice Series 2024 where she presented her paper titled ‘’ at.
Oluwatoyin is a Steering Committee Member and former Co-chair of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), a multidisciplinary network of researchers and policymakers working on displacement and migration in the context of disasters and climate change in Africa. She supervises doctoral students and has examined doctoral theses at the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, both in South Africa.