TITLE: PROF

NAME: OLUFUNLAYO BAMMEKE

POSITION: PROFESSOR (GENDER & DEVELOPMENT)

EDUCATION/TRAINING

1. Personal Statement

I am a professor of Sociology with primary interests in gender and development and child/youth studies, especially abuse and deprivation.  For three decades, I have been committed to research and community efforts geared towards minimising, and ultimately eliminating gender inequality and inequity in major social institutions. Through scientific research, I have sought to understand the propensity to perpetrate violence against vulnerable persons and the possibility of victimization. I have demystified harmful norms that provoke and sustain violence against persons, especially children and women. In collaboration with colleagues in Ghana, South Africa and the USA, I have examined cross cultural differences in beliefs about relationship violence against women with a view to recommending culture-specific measures that will minimise the incidence of gender-based violence towards intimate partners and other persons. In extending my research and scholarship to the town, I have collaborated with the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) in its effort to ensure appropriate and holistic response to the multifaceted needs of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Lagos State. I also continue to engage in mentoring young girls to identify and demystify harmful norms that perpetrate gender inequality and undermine the development efforts of governments and non-governmental organizations.

1. Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honours

Laureate, The Gender Institute, The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.(CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal, (1997).

Beneficiary of the Ford Foundation, International Youth Development Exchange (IYDE)     

Project (United States of America, 2001).

Grantee, Sonke Gender Justice Network & University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Training grant for MenEngage Alliance Training Initiative (MATI) Course on Masculinities,

Leadership and Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013.

Beneficiary, African Gender Institute’s

Intensive Teaching Seminar on Building Capacity for Feminist Research in Africa:

 Gender, Sexuality and Politics. University of Cape Town, South Africa. (June 5^th-June 25^th, 2008)

1. Selected Publications

             Fakunmoju, Sunday B. and Bammeke, Funmi O. (2024) Measuring Perception of Partner Psychological Abuse: Development, Reliability and Validity Analyses in Nigeria and South Africa. International Journal of Social Science Research and Review. Vol. 7, Issue 7, July 2024. Pages 154-180

           Luedtke, S., Wood, C., Olufemi, O. et al. Gamified antimicrobial decision support app (GADSA) changes antibiotics prescription behaviour in surgeons in Nigeria: a hospital-based pilot study. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 12, 141 (2023).

Wood CE, Luedtke S, Musah A, Bammeke F, Mutiu B, Ojewola R, Bankole O, Ademuyiwa AO, Ekumankama CB, Ogunsola F, Okonji P, Kpokiri EE, Ayibanoah T, Aworabhi-Oki N, Shallcross L, Molnar A, Wiseman S, Hayward A, Soriano D, Birjovanu G, Lefevre C, Olufemi O, Kostkova P. Exploring barriers to guideline implementation for prescription of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in Nigeria. JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2022 Apr 19;4(2): dlac044. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlac044. PMID: 35445194; PMCID: PMC901591

Oloruntoba, S. O.; Bammeke, F. and Durowade, O. (eds.) (2023) Social policy and transformation in Africa: A festschrift for Professor Omotade Akin Aina. Noirledge Publishing.

Bammeke, O. and Awosika, F. O. (2022)   The Nigerian Federation and Separatist’ Agitations: A Reconsideration of Contending Issues on Biafra. The Nigerian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 20(1) 2022, 18-32

1. Collaborators/Networks
2. Prof. Sunday Bolanle Fakunmoju, Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts, USA
3. Dr. R.K.B Asante, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra Ghana

  iii. Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA)