NCID-2617
Stephen Okpadah
Chancellor International PhD Candidate
University of Warwick, UK
About
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah is a Chancellor International PhD Candidate at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. He is the co-editor of Decoloniality and Topicality (eTropic: Journal, 2023), Towards a Praxis in Decolonizing the Tropics. (eTropic: Journal, 2023), Intercultural Encounters, Historicity and Cultural Communication for Development in Nigeria. (Germany Galda Verlag 2023), and editor of Ecological Resistance in the Postcolonial Text. (Lamar University Literary Press 2023). He is currently researching participatory theatre and climate justice in the context of the environmentally degraded Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He won the 2021 Janusz Korczak/UNESCO Prize for Global South in emerging scholar category, and he is also a Director at the Theatre Emissary International, Nigeria. Okpadah is a non-resident research associate, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Canada.
Current Work
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah is an Applied Theatre practitioner and scholar and a Chancellor International PhD Candidate at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. He is a Director at the Theatre Emissary International, Nigeria. He is also a non-resident research associate, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Canada. I won the 2021 Janusz Korczak/UNESCO Prize for Global South in emerging scholar category. Also, Okpadah is currently researching participatory theatre and climate justice in the context of the environmentally degraded Niger Delta region of Nigeria. His project draws on Theatre for Development in creating community based performances that advocate for climate justice.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Applied Theatre, Ecotheatre, Ecocinema, Climate Justice, postcolonial theory