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Academia & Entrepreneurship Combined? | Wadcast #5
Date Published: 13.10.2022
Adaku Agwunobi shares her experiences of having a foot in both of these worlds.
About Adaku
Wadham Research Associate, Adaku Agwunobi is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Science, working on orthopaedic clinical tooling. She was the first Black doctoral researcher to obtain a PhD at Loughborough University London, where her PhD focused on the well-being of Black entrepreneurs.
In addition to her academic research, Adaku is an entrepreneur, recently winning an Oxford Hub Social Enterprise Award for her tech-savvy natural hair care and wellness brand called ‘hairgoals’.
In this Wadcast, Adaku Agwunobi shares her experience being both an academic and an entrepreneur, as well as her research in wellbeing for Black entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs more generally.
Show notes
The "MCR" stands for Middle Common Room and is the body of graduate students. The "SCR" stands for Senior Common Room and is the body of academic staff and other senior figures.
Dr Adaku on:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradaku/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrAdaku
Songs "Home" and "Jisike" used by permission from Dr Adaku. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1h6YFME6mkJgijtwx7hhIs
Wadham Research Associates: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/research-associates
The Wadcast theme music is 'For the Poor' by Dan Brasco: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Brasco/Two-Tier_Society/01_For_the_Poor/
It is used under the linked Creative Commons License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
The voice of Wadcast's intro tagline is Hannah Ledlie.
