Dr. Sheri Adekola is a socio-cultural researcher, educator, and public scholar whose work spans migration, labour markets, health and professional systems, social inequality, and research-methods education. Her research examines how institutions, regulatory frameworks, and policy structures shape professional opportunity, mobility, and belonging, particularly for internationally educated professionals. Across nearly two decades of postsecondary teaching, she has taught sociology, research methods, migration, race and ethnicity, gender and work, communication, and interdisciplinary social science across Canadian universities and colleges.

She is Founding Research Director of the Centre for Black Life Course Policy & Data, where she leads a longitudinal research initiative examining professional mobility, institutional access, and life course outcomes among Black and immigrant populations.

She is also Founder and Executive Director of the Ontario Learning Development Foundation (OLDF), leading research-informed programs that support youth, newcomers, and families through education and community-based initiatives.

Dr. Adekola has taught across seven Canadian postsecondary institutions in full-time, partial-load, contract, and sessional appointments. Her teaching spans General Sociology, sociological and applied research methods, migration and transnationalism, race and ethnicity, gender, work and public policy, health and inequality, communication, and interdisciplinary social science. Her teaching practice emphasizes empirical inquiry, inclusive and accessible course design, undergraduate research mentorship, and the development of students’ capacity to evaluate evidence and conduct independent research.