Dr Oladapo Akinlotan

Ola is a registered mental health nurse, an experienced healthcare practitioner and university academic with more than 12 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has expertise in Nursing and Health Sciences, Earth Sciences and Health Geosciences.

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Background

Ola is an experienced healthcare practitioner with over 16 years of experience in mental health nursing and learning disability. He is also a highly motivated and enthusiastic university academic with more than 12 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has education, experience and expertise in Nursing and Health Sciences, Earth Sciences and Health Geosciences.

He is a registered mental health nurse with a clinical background in acute impatient settings, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and community mental health services (CMHS). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and developing an international research profile.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Yoruba

Research interests

• Mental Health Nursing
• Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Learning Disability
• Global Mental Health
• Mental Health Geography
• Health Geography/Geosciences
• Health Inequalities
• Earth Sciences

Ola is a highly motivated and enthusiastic university academic with more than 12 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has education, experience and expertise in Nursing and Health Sciences, Earth Sciences and Health Geosciences. He is an active researcher and has published journal articles in leading international, peer-reviewed journals including Elsevier (science direct), Wiley, Cambridge and others. His research interests include mental health nursing, mental health and well-being, learning disability, global mental health, mental health geography, health geography/geosciences, health inequalities and earth sciences.

Areas of research supervision

• Qualitative Methods
• Systematic/ Literature reviews
• Meta Analyses
• Mixed Methods

Ola would be pleased to consider supervising masters and doctoral students with the following research interests/topics related to mental health nursing, mental health and wellbeing, global mental health, mental health geography, health geography, health inequalities, health and social care, etc.

Recent and current postgraduate supervision

• Factors that influence mental health of bus drivers (MSc dissertation - completed)
• Older adults’ experience of isolation during COVID-19 pandemic (MSc dissertation - ongoing)
• Stigmatization of mental health in Africa: a systematic review (MSc dissertation - ongoing)

Teaching

• BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing
• BSc (Hons)/MSc Pre and Post-Registration Nursing
• Pre-registration and Post-registration Nursing Programmes

Qualifications

• MSc - Mental Health Nursing, City, University of London (Distinction)
• Post Graduate Certificate - Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Sussex
• Post Graduate Certificate - Education (PGCE), University of Sussex (Distinction)
• Post Graduate Certificate - Research Methodology, University of Brighton
• PhD - Geoscience, University of Brighton
• MSc - Geoscience, University of Manchester
• BSc (Hons) - Geology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria (Second Class Upper)

Memberships, editorial boards

• Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Member, Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Reviewer: Marine and Petroleum Geology (Elsevier)
• Reviewer: Journal of African Earth Sciences (Elsevier)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Principal Investigator, Brunel University, London, UK, collaborative funding- £70,000 (August 2020)
• Principal Investigator, Robertson CGG, Wales, collaborative funding- £200,000 (August 2019)

Selected recent publications

Akinlotan, O. and Lucas, G. Student experiences of mental health problems at UK universities: a qualitative systematic review (under review).

Akinlotan, O. Thapa, and P. Anyebe, E. University academics supporting students with mental health problems: a systematic review (under review).

Akinlotan, O. and Jalo, A. Older Adults’ experience of isolation during COVID-19 pandemic (under review).

Akinlotan, O and Faleti D. Stigmatisation of Mental Illness in Africa: a systematic review (under preparation).

Akinlotan, O.O., Hatter, S. J., Depositional controls on diagenetic evolution of the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Sandstones (Wessex Basin, southeast England). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105948.

Akinlotan, O.O., Moghalu, O.A., Hatter, S.J., Okunuwadje, S., Anquilano, L., Onwukwe, U., Haghani, S., Anyiam, O.A. and Jolly, B.A., (2022). Clay mineral formation and transformation in non-marine environments and implications for Early Cretaceous palaeoclimatic evolution: The Weald Basin, Southeast England. Journal of Palaeogeography 11 (3) 387-409.

Akinlotan, O. (2021). Depositional controls on porosity and permeability of clastic reservoirs. Earth Science, 10 (3): 70-82.

Akinlotan, O; Adepehin, E, Rogers, G; Drumm, E (2021). Provenance, palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironments of non-marine Lower Cretaceous facies: Petrographic evidence from the Wealden Succession. Sedimentary Geology, 105848.

Akinlotan, O; Rogers, G, Okunuwadje, S; (2021). Provenance evolution of the English Lower Cretaceous Weald Basin and implications for palaeogeography of the northwest European massifs: constraints from heavy mineral assemblages. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104953.

Akinlotan, O; Rogers, G (2021). Heavy mineral constraints on the provenance evolution of the English Lower Cretaceous (Wessex Basin). Marine and Petroleum Geology 104952.

Media experience

Ola welcomes invitation from media organisations and he’s willing to engage the media/public on his teaching and research interests.