Jummy Okoya

Olajumoke Jummy Okoya

Dean of Office for Institutional Equity

Dean

Office for Institutional Equity; Associate Professor of Leadership & EDI; EDI, HR, Coaching & Positive Psychology

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Qualifications

  • BSc International Relations
  • MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology
  • MSc Business Information Systems
  • PhD
  • Chartered Academic member CIPD (05/2009)
  • Fellow of Chartered Management Institute (02/2018)
  • Senior Practitioner Workplace Resilience & Wellbeing (06/2018)
  • Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (04/2019)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Art (05/2019)
  • ICF Certified coach – Professional Certified Coach (11/2020)
  • Leadership Circle (12/21)
  • NEO
  • 5 STEP
Jummy Okoya

OVERVIEW

Dr Jummy Okoya is the interim Dean of the Office of Institutional Equity. She leads on delivering UEL’s EDI strategy as a cross cutting priority of vision 2028.  She is an HR expert and EDI academic with more than 2 decades’ experience. She brings a wealth of experience of delivering strategic EDI projects, developing, and leading executive programmes.

She is very passionate about gender equity and is a national leading figure in advocating for more Black female professors and creating a pipeline of Black female PhD student into academia.

Jummy is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University Said Business School, she was listed among top 10 Diversity Allies for the education sector in the UK in 2022 and top 50 inspirational Black women in the UK in 2019 and nominated for excellence in diversity in higher education in 2017.

EXTERNAL ROLES AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS

External Roles

  • External examiner at Westminster International University Tashkent.
  • Board member of CMI Women.
  • Member of Chartered Association of Business Schools Race Equity Action Group.

Industry Partners

CURRENT RESEARCH

Current research and publications

Organisational climate and performance: Case study of Nigerian High growth SMEs.
Challenges and prospects of HRD: A case study of Nigerian SMEs

External roles

  • University of Greenwich Jan 2023 – Present Post graduate HRM Programmes
  • University of Westminster Sept 2019 – Present UG & PG Business management and HRM Modules

Industry partners

MODULES

  • Mental Wealth 
  • International HRM
  • Learning & Development 
  • Global Leadership

PUBLICATIONS

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Publications

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Full publications list

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Research repository