Tola Ositelu

Tola Ositelu first studied law in the UK and later completed a MA in Sociocultural Linguistics at London’s Goldsmiths University. She is currently a PhD fellow associated to the MERLIT research group and project coordinator at VUB.  Her research project, "(Post-)Migrant Narratives of Mobility and Care: The ‘Windrush’ Generation and the NHS Experience in Society, Literature and Culture" aims to analyse and make more visible for the first time, in a comprehensive way, narratives by and about African and Caribbean migrant women healthcare professionals in the post-war British context of the early days of the National Health Service (NHS). Tola is also a freelance copywriter and blogger and is the current editor of the award-winning online culture and lifestyle magazine, Afropean.com.

Research Expertise: Migration, Social commentary, Sociolinguistics, Historical overview, narrative analysis, comparative literature

Research Methodology: Ethnographic, narratology