Eboiyehi F.A. (PhD)

Friday Asiazobor Eboiyehi is a Professor of gender studies, gerontology, and sociology at the Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies (CGSPS), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He obtained a B.A. in Anthropology, M.Sc., and PhD with a special focus on the sociology of ageing (Gerontology) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Eboiyehi also holds a certificate in gender and health from AMREF International Training Centre, Nairobi, Kenya in 2010. His research interests centered on gender and ageing, gender and development, and social issues. His papers provided clear policy roadmaps that would contribute to advancing the causes of the aged, women and men, girls and boys through the lens of gender and development. He has to his credit over fifty papers published in local and international journals and books. He has also been teaching at the postgraduate level and supervised doctoral students on a broad range of ageing and gender topics.