Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator for Public Health

I am a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Course Coordinator for the BSc Public Health. I teach a range of health and social care courses, lead the Health and Social Care Inequalities unit for the MSc Public Health which is delivered in Luton, Myanmar, and Guyana, and coordinate the BSc Public Health programme. I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Health Research where I supervise PhD and Masters by Research Students, lead PhD and Research students’ engagement that support successful completion and act as an internal examiner PhD progressions. I am also involved with helping students develop their employability skills in Health and Social Care Careers with a focus on Public Health.

My interdisciplinary, collaborative and applied research provides evidence for reducing health inequalities focusing on social determinants of health and their impacts on variations in health outcomes, as well as how these affect the experience of access to health and social care services. The focus of my research is reducing the gap that exists among groups, communities, and larger populations across the life course by influencing policy, design and delivery of inclusive and responsive services, locally, nationally and internationally. My research uses innovative ways to engage with diverse communities to involve low socioeconomic groups, low- and middle-income countries, and hard-to-reach groups. I have conducted my research in Nigeria and the UK, but also welcome research from other sub-Saharan African countries, South Asian and European countries.

Other Internal roles

• Engagement Lead for PhD and research students- Institute for Health Research
• PhD examiner – Institute for Health Research
• Research supervisor - (PhD, MScRes, MSc/MBA & BSc/BA)
• Associate Member - Institute for Health Research
• PhD viva Chairing – Research Graduate School
• Higher Education Academy (HEA) Exam Panel member - Centre for Excellence / AdvanceHE
• HEA Mentor- Centre for Excellence / AdvanceHE

Other References

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-dorcas-adeoye-a6114765/
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorcas-Adeoye

Qualifications

• PhD Public Health - University of Bedfordshire
• MSc Public Health - University of Bedfordshire
• Fellow in Higher Education- University of Bedfordshire/ AdvanceHE
• External Examiner qualification- AdvanceHE
• Auroran- Women in Academic Leadership

Teaching Expertise

• Health-related: Healthcare Management, Public Health- health prevention, promotion and control, Social Research, Health and Social Care and Sociology
• Online mentoring tutor
• Mentoring FHEA candidate
• Personal Academic Tutor
• External Examiner qualification - AdvanceHE
• Health and Social Care inequalities

Research Interests

• Health and Social care inequalities
• Stress and young people
• HIV/AIDS research
• Invisible Illness and self-identity
• Social determinants of health
• Gender and Health
• Health and Care Workforce

Projects

• Research among the stigmatised group (current)
• Stress among undergraduate students in Nigeria: a systematic review (current)
• Self-identity and invisible Illness (2017-2019)
• HIV/AIDS experience among employed people living with HIV/AIDS (2014-2019)

External roles

• Journal Reviewer- Elsevier (Public Health) & Sage (Qualitative Health Research)
• External Examiner – Keele University, Chichester University & Manchester Metropolitan University
• External Periodic Review Panel Member/Advisor - Kaplan Open Learning (University of Essex Online) Periodic Review UG and PG Healthcare Management
• External Periodic Review Panel Member/Advisor - London Metropolitan University, Periodic Review UG Health and Social Care programme
• Online tutorship- MSc Public Health & MSc Health Management including modules such as Leadership and Management in Health, Health Governance and Economics, Health Promotion & Global Family Health.
• Member of Aurora – Women in Higher Education for AdvanceHE

Publications

• Alamu, B. A. & Adeoye, D.A. (Under review) Academic stress among undergraduate students in Nigeria: a systematic review
• Adeoye-Agboola, D.I. (2019) ‘The invisible conditions’ in Majumder, A. (ed.) Living with HIV: Challenges, Perspectives and Quality of Life. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
• Adeoye-Agboola, D., Evans, H., Hewson, D. & Pappas, Y. (2016) 'Review Paper: Factors influencing HIV disclosure among people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: a systematic review using narrative synthesis and meta-analysis', Public Health, 136 pp.13-28.
• Adeoye-Agboola, D. and Evans, H. (2015) The Relationship Between Anxiety and Academic Performance of Postgraduate International Students in a British University: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Design, Science Journal of Public Health. 3(3) pp. 331-338.
• Adeoye-Agboola, D., Evans, & Pappas, Y. (Accepted) ‘The implications of invisible symptoms in the pattern of disclosure among employed people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria’, Qualitative Health Research.
• Adeoye-Agboola, D. I. (Under review) ‘The review of theories on HIV disclosure in the workplace’, Health Education and Behaviour.
• Adeoye, D. (2018) (Under review) 'The impact of flexible access to healthcare services among employees living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria', Journal of Medical Sciences.

Contact Details

E: dorcas.adeoye1@beds.ac.uk