Project Title: Alienated Identities of Platform Workers and their Hidden Transcript: Experience of Ride Hailing App-Drivers in Lagos, Nigeria

Year of Entry: 2024, Full-Time

Supervisors: Dr Anita Hammer, Dr Priyanka Pandey

Isaiah is a Doctoral student at King’s College London, King’s Business School in the Department of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. His research interest is in work and technology and their implications for the larger society. Specifically, Isaiah’s thesis will focus on identity alienation in platform work.

Prior to Isaiah’s commencement of his PhD at King’s College, he had both BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. Currently researching work and technology Isiah has interests in different areas of management research. Isaiah has prior teaching and research assistant experience at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, where he was part of the Management Scholar Academy (MSA).

He has contributed to about 40 academic papers in local and international publishers such as Emerald, Springer International, Apple Academic Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge.

Additionally, Isaiah has managed 10 book projects, of which he co-edited six (6) on management themes. An awardee of the King's Business School Doctoral Studentship, Isaiah is passionate about teaching and research and hopes to promote sustainable work systems through his research endeavours.

Aside from teaching and research, Isaiah has consultancy experience with education, health, and platform organisations. His consultancy activities have focused on researching work-related problems in these sectors and developing training needs that offer solutions to identified problems. Some of the training has focused on improving workers' performance and orientating leaders on how best to design decent work structures for meaningful work engagement.

Isaiah is currently the PhD student representative for the Department of Human Resource and Employment Relations.

Isaiah Adisa's CV