About Me

                                                       Brief  Bio-data of 'Tunde Ope-Davies

‘Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi) is a Full Professor of English & Digital Linguistics, Digital Humanities,  Digital Cultures and Discourse Studies at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

He received his doctorate from the University of Lagos and has been teaching and conducting research at the same university for more than 20 years. He has won a number of visiting fellowships and scholarships: the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship at the University of Westminster, London; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany;  DAAD Scholarship for University of Leipzig’s  Summer University in Digital Humanities, and the Visiting Research Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH-SPSS), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

He is the convener of the Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities (LSSDH), a training platform to raise and train young scholars in digital humanities. His ongoing digital humanities projects include the construction of a digital repository of online political conversation in Nigeria sponsored by the federal government tertiary education research funding agency (TETFUND).  He is also a grantee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation in Germany.

He is also the founder, Centre  Director, and Principal Investigator, at the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL), and the founding President of the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN).

His public service experience includes working as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria where he headed the Directorate of Speech Duties in the Office of the Governor. He was also Senior Special Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Governor of Lagos State.

 He was a member of the immediate past Governing Council of Anchor University, Lagos. And he is presently a Visiting Professor & the Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Anchor University, Lagos.  

He has attended and presented research papers at several International Conferences, Workshops and Seminars in North America, Europe and other parts of the world. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and four books. His research focuses on internet-based and social media research, digital discourse and corpus-based discourse studies.

Professor Ope-Davies has published on topics related to Digital Humanities and the use of technologies to analyse social media discourse, and remote teaching and learning.

He is visible on Researchgate, Google Scholars, Academia.edu, and Scopus.

*His Publication identity on the Net is: [Tunde Opeibi & Tunde Ope-Davies]