Meet the team

Zibah A. Nwako, PhD

Senior Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow - School of Education

Zibah is a scholar-activist who uses an African feminist approach to explore the welfare and wellbeing of female students in educational institutions. She is also passionate about developing impact activities to ensure sustainable futures for young African entrepreneurs.

Dave Jarman

Associate Professor - Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dave helps to generate and realise ideas and impacts for people and organisations. He is an educator, intrapreneur, speaker, trainer and coach with extensive experience of creativity, innovation, Higher Education, and business start-up.

Adrian Flint, PhD

Senior Lecturer - School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

Adrian’s research interests centre on the politics of development and North-South relations (covering Sub-Saharan Africa), particularly the interface between poverty, sustainable development, and political economy. One focus of his work is on the politics of aid, including beneficiary participation and co-design.

Jennifer D. Daniel

Postgraduate Researcher, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Jennifer is dedicated to understanding the factors that contribute to the success of women in technology entrepreneurship, with the ultimate goal of shaping better policies and practices for the transformation of developing economies.

Anne Angsten Clark

Lecturer and Postgraduate Researcher - Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Anne is passionate about participatory and human-centered design, financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration and community driven development. She has worked with a micro-finance organisation in Uganda, a social enterprise start-up in Mali, and other international organisations in Rwanda and Senegal.

The project team is grateful for the invaluable advice, involvement, and support of our partners:

Ade Omoloja

Ijeoma Ossi

Dr Keir Williams

Paddy Anigbo