| Honorific Prefix: | Prof |
| Akwugo Emejulu | |
| Alma Mater: | University of Strathclyde University of Glasgow American University |
| Thesis Title: | Community development as discourse : analysing discourses, identities and social practices in the US and the UK |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do;jsessionid=1EFC1883A01D86F35EECB400E0509E36?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570454 |
| Thesis Year: | 2010 |
| Workplaces: | University of Edinburgh University of Warwick |
Akwugo Emejulu is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. She focuses on political sociology, including inequalities across Europe and grassroots campaigns for women of colour.
Emejulu completed her bachelor's degree in political science at the American University.[1] She joined the University of Glasgow for her graduate studies, earning a Master of Philosophy in Urban Policy. She moved to the University of Strathclyde for her PhD, which she was awarded in 2010. Her PhD thesis considered community development as a discourse, identities and social practises in the US and UK.[2]
Emejulu worked as a community organiser in the United States and United Kingdom. She was a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She was concerned that white supremacists influenced the Brexit vote.[3]
In 2017 Emejulu joined the University of Warwick as a professor of sociology.[4] She is part of an Open Society Foundation project called Women of Colour Resist. The project looks to map the processes that women of colour use for activism.[5] She works extensively with Leah Bassel at the University of Leicester.[6]