Dr. Omotayo (Tayo) Owoeye
Module leader and Researcher
Institute for University to Business Education (U2B)
Tayo Owoeye is a Lecturer/Module Leader/Level Lead and a researcher at the Institute of University to Business Education (IU2BE), specializing in transformative learning within work-based contexts. His professional interests include work-based and transformative learning, employability, skill development, reflexivity, ethnography, and qualitative research methodology.
Before joining IU2BE in 2023, Tayo was a tenured Associate Professor at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He holds a DPhil in Social-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and an MBA from OAU, Ile-Ife. With 17 years of teaching and primary research experience, Tayo's work focuses on qualitative research methodology, knowledge construction and sharing, identity construction, everyday conversations, and the communication of worldviews in both indigenous and modern technology contexts. His interdisciplinary research addresses human resource management, capacity development, sustainability, and transformative learning both in Africa and at the Global level.
Tayo's rich academic background includes being a 2011 BIARI (Brown University) Alumnus, a 2018 Summer Institute Fellow of Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, a co-PI recipient of the 2021 Nagel/Emerging African Realities Award, a 2022 Emory University Visiting Scholar, and a volunteer Program Director for the IIAS Association.