Ola Uduku

Ola Uduku took up a professorship in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture in 2017. Prior to this, she was a reader in Architecture, and Dean International for Africa, at Edinburgh University. Her research specialisms are in the history of educational architecture in Africa, and the contemporary issues related to social infrastructure provision for minority communities in cities in the “West” and “South.” She is currently engaged in developing postgraduate research and teaching links in architecture, urbanism, heritage and conservation between West African Architecture schools and those in North West England. She has in the past published in the areas of African architecture, African diaspora studies, gated communities and environmental design teaching pedagogies. Uduku is also the coordinator of the EdenApp Tools for Environmental Analysis Lab, which focuses on developing apps for use in teaching environmental concepts such as lighting, thermal comfort and acoustics to undergraduates through the use of personal apps and sensors.

As of November 2019