Recently updated on February 12th, 2023 at 12:31 pm
24-year-old Tosin Durodola has emerged runner-up of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize for 2021.
Durodola set a new record by becoming the first African and postgraduate student from a University in the Global South to make the top two places of the Border Criminologies Masters’ Dissertation/Thesis Prize since the inception of the competition. The past winners and runners-up of the award were from Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Amsterdam Universities.
The award was put together by Routledge and Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology and Border Criminologies to support early career researchers working on citizenship, migration and the intersections between border controls and criminal justice.
Durodola, whose Master’s thesis is entitled: ‘Narratives of the Journey to Exile and Transformative Agency of Residual Liberian Refugees in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria’, won the second place, which attracts £200 and £100 worth of Routledge books. His research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Senayon Olaoluwa at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. Tiphaine Le Corre from University of Oxford won the first place with the thesis titled: ‘The Politics of Deterring Unwanted Immigration to the United Kingdom’.
Professor Mary Bosworth, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Director of Border Criminologies, University of Oxford, disclosed this in a newsletter.
According to the official statement, Durodola and Tiphaine beat a strong shortlist of 10 others from universities in Europe, Asia and other African countries to win the prize. The competition was judged by a panel made up of academics and members of the Border Criminologies’ core team and the Advisory Group. The Panel assessed the dissertation in terms of its quality and originality, and its contribution to the body of knowledge about border control and migration.
Tosin Durodola is a scholar from the University of Ibadan who recently obtained M.A in African Studies (Diaspora and Transnational Studies) with a CGPA of 6.7/7.0.
Earlier in August 2021, Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi appointed Tosin Durodola as his Special Assistant on Digital Communications. The appointment made him the youngest political appointee in the state, and further reinforces his outstanding abilities and intellectual foresight.
