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Barbara Adewumi, Dr

Research Lead in Student Success at University of Kent

Dr Barbara Adewumi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the University’s Student Success (EDI) Central Team. She completed her first degree in Sociology and Third World Studies at Middlesex University, followed by a Master’s in Contemporary Caribbean Cultural History at Goldsmith College.

Dr Adewumi taught sociology, research methods, criminology and social work at Kent for seven years where she received her PhD in Philosophy in 2015. She joined the Student Success (EDI) team in 2019 and develops institutional research on student sense of belonging, student attainment and student experience and collaborates on external grant bids to support Student Success interventions.

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