zmb2@leicester.ac.uk

Dr Zainab Mai-Bornu joined the School of History Politics and International Relations as Lecturer in International Politics in April 2021. Previously she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) Coventry University. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow (ESRC) at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. She completed her PhD in the Department of Politics Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath in 2017. Beyond academia Zainab worked at the National Board for Technical Education Nigeria where she led the TVET STEP-B science-training projects supported by the World Bank and also the Katsina State Government also in Nigeria. She has broad knowledge and experience as a project manager having worked in the educational and international development sectors in Nigeria. Zainab is a member of the Intelligence Security and Strategic Studies (ISSS) research cluster and the Institute for Environmental Futures (University of Leicester).

Nigeria, Ghana, Civil Society, Conflict and Violence, Oil, Identity, Colonialism