Centre of African Studies graduate wins SPS Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2025
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Dr Tosin Durodola has won the School of Social and Political Science’s annual Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for 2025.
Tosin completed his award-winning thesis - Does Refugeehood Ever End? Cessation, Homing, Labelling, and Resettlement Dreams among Post-Cessation Liberians in Nigeria - at the School’s Centre of African Studies.
His thesis offers a powerful and deeply human exploration of what it means to move beyond the legal category of ‘refugee,’ and whether refugeehood ever truly ends. His resulting research has already been published in leading publications such as the Journal of Refugee Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Tosin’s PhD supervisors were Dr Maggie Dwyer, Dr Jean-Benoit Falisse and Dr Thabani Mutambasere. He continues to work as a guest lecturer and tutor at SPS.
Many congratulations to Tosin from everyone at SPS!