Dr Oluseyi Kuti
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Oluseyi teaches across a range of leadership, business and management modules. She is a member of the Chartered Management Institute currently working towards the Chartered Managerial level. Oluseyi also supervises postgraduate dissertations and Applied Business Projects across Business, Leadership Management and Human Resource subject areas.
Oluseyi has been involved in teaching accounting, project management and leadership modules across the undergraduate, apprenticeship, and MBA levels. Oluseyi's research project titled: The Impact of Organisational Culture on the career progression of Women in the UK attracted the interest of the HR department of Sheffield Hallam University, while the research project titled: Against the Odds, Women Achievers in the Nigerian Banking Industry has been presented at various conferences such as British Academy of Management (BAM) UK, Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI)UK and the Research Series Seminars held at UCLan. Oluseyi has also presented this research project as a guest speaker on the HR4202 : Research in Practice Module in 2020 and 2021.
Oluseyi commenced her teaching career at Sheffield Hallam University, in 2017 before joining IROWE, UCLan as a Research Assistant in 2018. In 2019 she combined this role with a teaching role as an SPH also in UCLan.
Oluseyi has also attended and participated in recent conferences such as:
- 'Research Policy and Practice: Collaboration in disparate world' organised by the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) annual conference at the Crowne Plaza Birmingham (2018)
- 'Re-thinking gender and the organization: women at work in the 21st century', organised by the Durham University Business School Centre for Organisation and Society (2019)
- 'What is Feminist Economics?' organised by Women’s Budget Group (WBG) at the University of Manchester (2019)
- 'Developing a successful career as a black academic in the UK', webinar organised by the Scaling Business in Africa Consortium at the University of Edinburgh and Knowledge-Bridge- a cross-cultural knowledge exchange organisation (2020)
- Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). Sheffield Business School Sheffield Hallam University (2020)
- Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University (2016)
- B.Sc. Economics. University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. (1992)
- GCSE 9 O’ Level papers A*- C including English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (1986)
- Leadership Award, Sheffield Hallam University, (2016)
- Mentoring particularly for international students
- Research into the career progression of women (looking at the experiences of women in different countries)
- Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI)
- Member of the British Academy of Management (BAM)
Whilst in IROWE, Oluseyi actively contributed to the organisation and planning and dissemination of research outcomes through a broad range of activities such as:
- 'Agile and flexible working' seminar (2019)
- 'Gender, Enterprise and Wellbeing Research, Policy and Practice', - a one day symposium (2019)
- 'Sexual Harassment in the Workplace' seminar (2019),
- 'Mental Health in the Workplace: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom' seminar (2019)
- 'Organising Young Workers: The 2018 TGI Friday’s Strikes' seminar (2019)
- 'Team Working – The Importance of Being Physically Close in a World that is Becoming More Virtual' seminar (2019).
Oluseyi's research interests include the career progression of women in different countries, with a focus on factors impacting on the career progression such as the societal and organisational culture, the impact of various government policies such as Work /Life Balance, Leave and well-being policies, horizontal and vertical segregation, the representation of women on key government roles and positions and organisational boards, wage rate differentials.
- The Impact of Organisational Culture on the Career Progression of Women (2016)
- Against The Odds: Women Achievers in the Nigerian Banking Sector (2020)
- A Comparison of the Factors Impacting the Career Progression of Women in the Nigerian and UK banking Sectors (ongoing)
- An Examination of the Wellbeing and Mental Health Policies for Women in the Nigerian Financial Sector
- Oluseyi has actively participated in the organisation and planning of the following conferences within IROWE:
- Agile and flexible working delivered by Caroline Rayner (Baines and Wilson, LLP) and organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston- October 2019
- Gender, Enterprise and Wellbeing Research, Policy and Practice - one day symposium organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston – July 2019
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace delivered by Caroline Rayner (Baines and Wilson, LLP) and organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston – April 2019
- Mental Health in the Workplace: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, delivered by Dr Ian Ashton and Dr Alison Collins and organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston – March 2019
- Organising Young Workers: The 2018 TGI Friday’s Strikes delivered by Anthony Curley and organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston – February 2019
- Team Working – The Importance of Being Physically Close in a World that is Becoming More Virtual delivered by Dr Giles McClelland and organised by the Institute for Research into Organizations, Work and Employment (iROWE) University of Central Lancashire Preston – January 2019
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