Victor is the winner of the 2022-23 award for a PhD student registered at a university in the UK. He is a Nigerian PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
He has worked as a student missionary, a news writer in several media outlets in Nigeria, and a teaching assistant in the United Kingdom. He also owns a YouTube channel with more than forty thousand subscribers as of September 2022. On his channel he shares international scholarship tips and opportunities. Victor’s research revolves around African politics, African political economy, human security, and international development.
His research interrogates, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how voters respond when their elected politicians change political parties – whether they punish or reward them, in a non-Western context. He particularly examines this phenomenon in Africa, using Nigeria, the biggest democracy on the continent, as a case study. His research sits against the backdrop of ongoing debates on voter agency and party institutionalisation in Africa.
With the Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentship award, he aims to produce an academic paper for the Round Table and plan conference presentations within and outside Africa. He also plans to record a podcast on his key findings on voters’ response to party switching in Africa, and disseminate these both in academic and policy spaces.
