Olakunle Akingbola, Lakehead University

Research

COVID-19 remote work employee well-being community nonprofits

Latest funding

To Do or Not to Do: Social Innovation of Rural NPOs in Central Ontario under Resource Constraints
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$36,668
COVID-19 and Remote Work in Nonprofit Organizations: The Intersection of Employee Well-being and Community Outcomes
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$24,786
Supported Social Enterprise Research Project (SSERP)
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$20,000

All 3 grants and awards

To Do or Not to Do: Social Innovation of Rural NPOs in Central Ontario under Resource Constraints

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wu, Yuanyuan

Keywords: rural NPOs; social innovation; resource constraints; case study; fuzzy-set QCA

$36,668

COVID-19 and Remote Work in Nonprofit Organizations: The Intersection of Employee Well-being and Community Outcomes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative

Principal investigators: Akingbola, Olakunle A.

Keywords: COVID-19; remote work; employee well-being; community; nonprofits

$24,786

Supported Social Enterprise Research Project (SSERP)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: supported social enterprises; marginalized youth; Aboriginal youth; Afro-Canadian youth

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: COVID-19 Dear Professor Akingbola, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on covid-19 connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "COVID-19 and Remote Work in Nonprofit Organizations: The Intersection of Employee Well-being and Community Outcomes" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]