TITLE (PROF/DR/): DR.

NAME: ROSEMARY ADISHETU DANESI

POSITION: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR      SPECIALISATION: EMPLOYMENT/LABOUR RELATIONS, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & LABOUR LAW

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

  Personal Statement

I am an Associate Professor and a student focused professional with 23 years of practical experience in helping students to learn and achieve academic excellence. I believe I have over the years gained experience in teaching skills and acquired excellent knowledge of the subjects I teach, such as Human Resource Management, Collective Bargaining & Dispute Settlement, Labour Law & Public Policy, Labour Market Analysis, Globalization, State & Industrial Relations, Employment & Gender Discrimination, Social Dialogue, Trade Unions & Employment Associations, Man & Work Environment, Advanced Labour and Occupational Safety and Health Inspection, Social Protection, Advanced Comparative International Labour Law.. My teaching style has enabled my students to understand how to connect and apply theories and classroom knowledge to solve real world problems either as employees or entrepreneurs. My current areas of research are human resource management, employment relations and labour and employment law. I was privileged to get the Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 to research into the problems I had identified concerning the lack of regulation of casual employment in Nigeria. I carried out my research under the tutelage of the world-renowned labour law expert Prof. Matthew Finkin at the College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This experience helped to sharpen my research and teaching skills and I was able to use it to my benefit and those of my students. I have also learnt the importance of collaboration with colleagues; therefore, I have been able to collaborate with my colleagues in the areas of employment relations, human resource management and labour law, to identify problems and carry out research to solve these problems by proffering solutions.  

            Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• Member, Committee to Develop Criteria/Guidelines for Issuance of Commendation Letters and Award of Gold Medals for Deserving Members of Staff, January 2023-February 2024
• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Program Coordinator August 2021 – July 2023.
• Member of the SPGS Board August 2021-July 2023.
• Examination & Results Committee of the SPGS August 2021-July 2023.
• President, Fulbright Alumni Association of Nigeria 2019 till date.
• Vice-President (Projects), United States Government Exchange Alumni Association, Lagos, Nigeria 2019-2021
• Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) International Conference Travel Grant, 2015.
• Research grant from Central Research Committee (CRC), University of Lagos, 2015. A Study of Workplace Bullying: An Undiagnosed Social Problem. A Cultural Difference in Perception and Recommended Measure(s). 2016-2018.
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship to College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 2005 – May 2006. (Prof. Matthew Finkin was my Academic Advisor)
• Christopher Kolade Prize for the best Student in Human Resources Course in MSc. Industrial Relation and Personnel Management programme 1992/1993 academic session.

Selected Most Recent Publications /Contributions to Knowledge

1. Odetunde, O.J., Danesi, R.A., & Medinus, E.S. (2025) Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 Restructuring and the Business Performance of the NNPC Limited in the Post-PIA Era. University of Nairobi, Kenya African Journal of Business Management (AJBUMA), Vol. 9, No. 2. (May, 2025).
2. Puplampu, B.B., Danesi, R.A. et al, (2022) The Role of Leaders in Building Research Cultures in Sub-Saharan African Universities: A Six-Nation Study, African Journal of Management (AJM) Vol. 8, Issue 2, Pp. 171-193.
3. Leader, S., Ong, D., Van Ho, T., Yilmaz, A., Michalowski, S., Netto, U., Danesi, R.A. and WlodarcZak, B., (2013) Corporate Liability in a New Setting: Shell and the Changing Legal Landscape for the Multinational Oil Industry in the Niger Delta (Published by the University of Essex Business and Human Rights Project) Available in pdf form at:

            http://www.essex.ac.uk/ebhr/documents/niger_delta_report.pdf

4. Danesi, R.A., (2010) ‘Legal Framework for Nonstandard Work Arrangements’ in International Labour Standards and the Need for Paradigm Shift (Published by The Asian Society of Labour Law in conjunction with The University of the Philippines College of Law) Pp. 31-62.
5. Danesi, R.A., (2007) ‘Industrial Democracy and Employee Participation in Nigeria’ in Coskun Can Aktan and Sabah Balta (eds) Perspectives on Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Culture 5. (A Yasar University Publication, Turkey).

  Collaborators/ Networks (International inclusive)

1. Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) Steering Committee
2. Association of African Universities

• British Academy: British Academy Writing Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa: Early Career Researchers, September 24 -26 2019 at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare. Theme: Writing for sustainable development: Towards strengthening African grant and research writing for publication. (British Academy in collaboration with Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche, University of Nottingham and University of Zimbabwe).2022.
• Organizational and Research Culture in African Universities: A Six-nation study. Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda. Research, completed (2017 – 2022) Paper titled, “The Role of Leaders in Building Research Cultures in Sub-Saharan African Universities: A Six-Nation Study” was accepted by African Journal of Management on October 19^th 2021, and was published January 2022. Grant from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, British Academy and Lagos Business School.