Dr Stephen Bolaji

Stephen Bolaji is an endeavour scholar and research-active lecturer in the College of Indigenous Futures, Education and Arts, Charles Darwin University (CDU). Before joining CDU, he was a lecturer and researcher in the Department of educational foundations and counselling psychology, University of Lagos, Nigeria, in the sub-Sahara West Africa region. Stephen has over two decades of extensive research experience in education, including diversity and inclusion. His research interests are educational policy and leadership, cultural and community studies, and core educational foundations research- philosophy, history, comparative, sociology, and developmental studies. He is a qualitative researcher and grounded in using qualitative instruments to collect data for research projects. Stephen has an ongoing research collaboration with the Ludwigsburg University of Education in Germany with several DAAD and EUGEN grants on cultural awareness and digital competencies in higher education, and a good number of national and international publications outputs. He derives satisfaction in guiding students through their teaching and research undertakings. Stephen enjoys golfing, teaching, and conducting research.