the team
Tim Livsey
Tim Livsey is Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria
University, and Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research
Council Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship ‘Stolen Archives?
Re-evaluating the British “migrated” archives’.
A historian of West Africa and late colonialism, Tim’s research focuses on archives, cities, and universities to offer new perspectives on decolonisation.
After graduating in History from Cambridge, Tim taught history for seven years at London secondary schools. He finished a part-time MA in Historical Research at Birkbeck while working as a school teacher, before completing a full-time PhD at Birkbeck in 2014. He has since taught at King’s College London, the London School of Economics, Leeds Beckett University, and Oxford University, and joined Northumbria in 2019.
His book, Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development, was published in 2017. Tim has also published articles in journals including History Workshop Journal, the Journal of African History, the Journal of West African History, and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Katherine Ambler
Katherine Ambler is a historian of Britain and empire whose research focuses on the social sciences, ideas about development, and intellectual culture in the context of late colonialism. She recently completed her PhD, entitled ‘The Manchester Department of Social Anthropology, 1949-1975’, at King’s College London. Katherine’s research was funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP).
Prior to beginning her PhD, Katherine worked for a strategic advisory firm specialising in trade and investment with and within Africa. In this role, she worked with governments, donors and corporate clients on stakeholder engagement, communications and corporate social responsibility projects in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure, philanthropy, education and media. Before this, Katherine completed a MA in Social Anthropology at SOAS and a BA in History and French at Warwick.
ECRS
The project is delivering a programme of mentorship to six Nigeria-based early career researchers.
Ilupeju Taariqa-R Adepeju
Ilupeju Taariqa-R Adepeju is a PhD Candidate Department of History and Strategic Studies at the University of Lagos. She is working on a thesis entitled ‘Memory in history: a comparative study of chronicles of Ijebu and Lagos’. She is a Fellow of the Ife Institute of African Studies, and is currently an exchange student at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Nurudeen Olatoye Arogundade
Nurudeen Olatoye Arogundade holds B.A.Ed. (History) and M.A. (African History) from the Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University. Currently, he is a doctoral student at the Department of History and International Studies at Osun State University. His ongoing research Ph.D. thesis is titled ‘The evolution of burial and funeral practices in Ile-Ife from earliest times up to 2015’. His research interests cover the legal, cultural, social, and political history of Africa. Nurudeen’s current research focuses on death, dying, cemetery, memory, burials, funeral culture, widows, orphans, pensions scheme, and religious identity crises. He is a laureate of the LSA 2023/British Academy Writing Retreat and a pre-doctoral Fellow of LUCAS/LAHRI-UNIOSUN 2022. He has attended numerous conferences, workshops and seminars where he presented papers. He has almost ten publications both onshore and offshore to his credit.
Abdullahi Garba
Abdullahi Garba, Ph.D, joined the University of Maiduguri in 1998 and he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, in 2002. In 2016, he was awarded a Master’s degree in History from the same institution, and he received his PhD in History from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, in December, 2021. Abdullahi Garba has taught at different levels of education, and at the University of Maiduguri since 2011. At present, he is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of History, and also the Postgraduate Coordinator. His areas of research interest are historiography and methodology, conflict studies, as well as social and intellectual history. He has written seven chapters in books and more than fifteen articles in national and international scholarly journals. He also attended learned conferences at different universities in Nigeria. In terms of collaboration, he conducted research with the Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAECS) and School of Business Administration, De Montfort University, England. These collaboration resulted in the publication of a variety books and journal articles. He was also a Junior Scientist with the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation for a three month research visit at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, between September and November 2021.
Sarah Hope Menney-Amgbare
Sarah Hope Menney-Amgbare hails from Ogbo, in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Sarah is a veteran broadcaster, a television presenter, programme producer and director with the Rivers State Television (RSTV) Channel 22, Port-Harcourt. Currently, she serves as the director, Public Affairs and Civic Education, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC). Sarah studied Theatre Arts in the University of Calabar, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1992. She obtained a Master of Arts from the University of Port-Harcourt in 2004, majoring in Media. In 2022, Sarah was awarded an M.Sc. in Gender and Development Studies in the University of Port-Harcourt. Her thesis was on Asymmetrical Dependency and Women’s Rights to Remarriage in Ekpeyeland. Sarah’s interest in alleviating the suffering of women in Ekpeyeland has further motivated her to write on the Repositioning of Widows and Orphans in Ekpeyeland in a Sustainable Economy. Sarah is currently a PhD student of the Centre for Gender, Conflict and Development Studies in the University of Port-Harcourt.
Ismail Musbahu
Ismail Musbahu is currently a Nigeria Research Assistant for the Utrecht University, Netherlands, on religion and violent extremism (CVE). Prior to this role, Musbahu worked with various research NGOs on insecurity and peace building, democratization, governance and freedom of religion and belief (FORB). He completed both his first and second degrees in history from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. His area of specialisation is environment and social insecurity with a focus on the politics and economics of land in rural areas. For his PhD program, Musbahu is currently working on a research project titled ‘The Political Economy of Land, Agriculture and Pastoralism: A Historical Account of Rural Insecurity in Northwest Nigeria, c. 1804-2020.’
Idris Olalekan Olabode
Idris Olalekan Olabode is a Postgraduate student of the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in History (Hons) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Olabode is a dedicated early-career researcher with a profound passion for history. He commenced his Ph.D. fieldwork in 2018, and has published three times in local peer reviewed journals. Olabode has attended numerous international and local conferences, and has been selected as a researcher for the IFRA-Nigeria Story Mapping Research Project. Within this initiative, he is engaged in exploring symbolism in sacred arts within specific religious shrines located in Ibadan. On the ‘migrated’ archives early career researcher mentorship scheme, Olabode is researching the Police Service Commission in colonial Nigeria to explore the historical development, organizational structure, and decision-making processes of the commission in a bid to shed light on the colonial legacy and impacts on the present-day police service.
