Dr. Omolola S. Olarinde-Olomola
Senior Lecturer
Economics Department
Senior Lecturer
Economics Department
Dr. Omolola Olarinde-Olomola is an active and internationally engaged researcher whose work focuses on labour economics, migration, gender, and inclusive development. She has served as a Research Associate on the UK-funded Migration for Inclusive African Growth (MIAG) project, a multi-country collaboration led by The Open University, UK, involving institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique, and Kenya. Currently, she is the Local Principal Investigator (Nigeria) on the DYNAMIG Horizon Europe 2020 project (2023–2025), coordinated by Kiel University, Germany. In this role, she leads the Gender Committee and contributes substantively to empirical and conceptual research outputs on migration, gender, and inclusive growth.
She has published in reputable peer-reviewed journals, including Gender, Place & Culture, and has co-authored several project reports and policy-relevant research papers with African and international collaborators. Her recent works explore epistemological questions in gendered migration research and the governance of labour migration in West Africa.
Dr. Olarinde-Olomola has mentored undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral candidates in research. She has presented at international conferences and contributes actively to scholarly discourse through editorial roles in journals such as the African Review of Economics and Finance and Ìrìnkèrindò: International Journal of African Migration.
Her future research plans include deepening interdisciplinary research on migration, gender, and knowledge production and expanding research networks to inform inclusive development policy.
Omolola Smaria Olarinde-Olomola (2025). Markets and the Spatial Distribution of African Migrants in Selected OECD Countries Migration and Development , 20 https://doi.org/10.1177/21632324251352298
Maurice Stierl Laura Stielike Philipp Schäfer Inken Bartels Anna Amelina Iva Dodevska Maissam Nimer Omololá S. Olarinde-Olomola (2025). Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies Journal of Migration Studies https://doi.org/10.48439/ZMF.334
(2024). Omololá Olarinde, Parvati Raghuram, Delali Badasu, Gorrety Yogo. 2024. African women migration researchers and the question of reflexivity. Gender, Place & Culture pp. 1–21 Taylor and Francis Online.
(2023). Amir Abdul Reda, Omololá Olarinde. 2023. Migration aspirations in Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic: A social media analysis.
(2023). Omololá Olarinde, Lena Detlefsen, Melissa E. Tornari, Eleonore Kofman, Tobias Heidland, Abdulfatai Salawudeen. 2023. Gender in migration aspirations and decision-making, trajectories and policies. EU Horizon Europe DYNAMIG D7.2
(2022). Ogbeide, S.O.; Olarinde, O.S. and Obadeyi, J.A. 2022. Remittances, Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms and Economic Performance. Journal of Economics and Administrative Studies, Vo. 5. Issue 1 pp. 16-28.
(2022). Raghuram P. and Olarinde, O.S. 2022. Gender and Migration, in Gold, S.J. and Nawyn, S.J. Eds. Handbook on Immigration and Refugee Studies (Second Edition), Routledge, London.
(2022). Olarinde, O.S. and Eckersley, A. 2022. Assessment of Public Employment Services in Nigeria. International Labour Organisation (ILO) and German Development Agency (GiZ) report. Abuja. 2022.
(2021). Olarinde, O.S. 2021. The Spatial Distribution of African Migrants in selected Global North destinations. PhD Thesis. University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
(2021). Olarinde O.S. 2021. Nigeria-Africa Migration Dynamics in Obiezu and Odimegwu (Eds) Nigerian Migration Governance: Strides, Challenges and Prospects Centre for Migration Studies Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka p. 106 to 128.
(2020). Olarinde O.S. 2020. Embodying the Spirit of Globalisation in D Hack-polay Ed in Migration practice as creative practice, Emerald Publishers.
(2018). Olarinde, O.S. and Adeniran, A, 2018. Addressing the energy consumption- economic growth nexus: the Nigerian case. Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The) 9 (2), 84-100.
(2015). Migration, Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Nigeria. A conference paper presented at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, United Kingdom. 24 March 2015.
(2015). Danladi, J. D. and Akomolafe, K. J. and Olarinde, O. S. and Anya, N. L. (2015) Government Expenditure and Its Implication for Economic Growth Evidence from Nigeria. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 6 (18). pp. 142-150. ISSN N 2222-1700
(2015). Olubiyi, E. and Olarinde, O.S. 2015. Revisiting the effects of workers’ remittances on economic development in Nigeria, Journal of Economic and Social Thought, Vol. 2. Issue 4 p 282 to 298.
(2013). Olarinde, O.S. and Olawuyi, D.S. 2013. Setting sustainable standards for biofuel production in Nigeria, legal and institutional imperatives. Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Vol. 2. Issue 1, pp 224-242