Joshua Akintayo

Joshua Akintayo is a PhD student at the Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) – the University of Kent, UK. He is a full scholarship recipient (BSIS Fee Waiver Research Scholarship) to study International Conflict Analysis. Joshua's PhD research focuses on examining the complex nature of government engagement with Muslim Communities in the context of the deradicalisation programme in North-eastern, Nigeria. This builds on M.Sc. dissertation on community policing approach in countering violent extremism in Nigeria at the Department of Political Science, the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria.

Before starting his PhD, Joshua was a research assistant in a collaborative Project funded by WhatsApp (Facebook) on the Use and Misuse of WhatsApp in an African election: Nigeria 2019. He worked with Professors Jonathan Fisher, Nic Cheeseman, Dr Emeka Njoku, Idayat Hassan, Jamie Hitchen, Mukhtar Bello, and Hadiza Hassan. The project was done in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Center for Democracy and Development, Nigeria. In 2017, Joshua was also Research Intern at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Oyo state, Nigeria.

Joshua's works have been published in the African Journal of Terrorism and book chapter published in The Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-security strategy. Another article is under the Revise and Resubmit stage in South African Journal of International Affairs, and a book chapter is at the final stages of review.

Joshua's research works have been funded by the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the Association of African Universities, the Pan African Doctoral Academy, University of Ghana and the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR).  

Dr Yvan Guichaoua