Project Title: Alienated Identities of Platform Workers and their Hidden Transcript: Experience of Ride Hailing App-Drivers in Lagos, Nigeria

Year of Entry: 2024, Full-Time

Supervisors: Dr Anita Hammer, Dr Priyanka Pandey

Isaiah Adisa is a PhD student in HRM & Employment Relations at King's Business School. His research interest is in work and technology and its implication on the worker and society. His thesis will focus on identity alienation in platform work. Before beginning his PhD at King’s College London, he earned both a BSc and an MSc in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.

Areas of interest:
• Management research
• Human resource management
• Organisational behaviour
• Decent work
• Platform gig work
• Green practices

Isaiah has contributed to about 41 academic papers in local and international outlets and managed 10 book projects of which he co-edited six on management themes. His research has been published by Emerald, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, PSU Research, and Apple Academic Press. Isaiah previously gained teaching and research experience at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, where he was part of the Management Scholar Academy (MSA). An awardee of the Kings Business School Doctoral Studentship, he is passionate about teaching and research and aims to promote sustainable and decent work systems through his research endeavours.

Aside from teaching and research, Isaiah has consultancy experience with education, health, and platform organisations. His consultancy activities have focused on training workers to achieve results and orienting leaders on how best to design decent work structures that allow workers to find fulfilment and perform at their best. He is also the current PhD student representative for the Department of HRM & Employment Relations at King’s Business School.

Isaiah Adisa's CV