About me
Dr Ugo Obibuaku joined the University of Westminster as a Lecturer at the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation in 2019. He has worked within the human rights NGO and higher education sector for over 12 years. He was a Project Coordinator with Imagine Mental Health (UK). In the past, he taught in different institutions of higher learning, for instance - University of Exeter, University of Essex, Aberystwyth University (Mauritius Campus).
Dr Ugo Obibuaku is a qualified legal practitioner (Nigeria) with over twenty years post-call experience. He attended human rights advocates training on the use of international human right law for the promotion and protection of human rights at Danish Institute of Human Rights. He has a first degree in Law, a master’s in human Rights and a PhD in International Human Rights law. He is a Fellow of Advance HE.
Teaching
Dr Ugo Obibuaku is the Foundation Law Subject Leader at the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation, University of Westminster. He teaches Law students, Introduction to Academic Practice and Critical Thinking for Academic and Professional Development modules.
His approach to learning and teaching is student centred. He employs a range of pedagogical tools in his teaching design and in delivery of lectures, seminars, and other classes, using methods such as interactivity, self-assessment, peer-led learning, formative exercises, practitioner talks, employability skills and teaching law with technologies.
Dr Ugo Obibuaku has been engaged in delivering/implementing national educational policies (with reference to national curriculum) in the United Kingdom and Mauritius. In terms of input, he teaches and manages education programmes. In terms of output, his students achieve the required standard of essential knowledge prescribed by the respective national curriculum.
Research
Dr Ugo Obibuaku engages in multidisciplinary research and his general research interests focuses on the domestic observance and implementation of Human Rights with a particular attention to socio-economic rights. He has conducted research and published in this area.
Current On-going Research
Redefining the Protection of Socio-economic Rights in South Africa and Nigeria using Ubi jus ibi remedium
Research Publications:
Osuji, OK. and Obibuaku, UL., (2016). Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Poverty Reduction and Socioeconomic Rights? Journal of Business Ethics. 136 (2), 329-347
Obibuaku, UL and Edeji, O., Fostering Socio-Economic Rights and Human Dignity through Collaborative Partnerships: The Role of Civil Society Organisations (to be published second quarter of 2024) (African Journal of International and Comparative Law), University of Edinburgh
Books
Associate Editor, Cases on Human Rights (2001), Access to Justice Project, Ford Foundation, Nigeria
Engagement with Commissioned Research Projects:
Research Consultant, International Organisation for Migration:
Mapping study: Guineans in the United Kingdom: Engagement with Migration and Development in Guinea, (2021).
Research Consultant, Equal Rights Trust:
Reports on national, regional, and international equality/anti- discrimination laws (2007) Reports/summaries uploaded onto organization’s virtual library.
Research Consultant, University of Wales Trinity Saint David:
Development of an interactive online Human Rights module (Four Units), for a master’s programme in Voluntary Sector Studies (2004)
Research Consultant, Centre for the Right to Health
Background research for a case involving constitutional right to health/discrimination. The International Commission of Jurists, under its African Human Rights and Access to Justice Programme funded this project.