Oyemolade Osibodu, York University

Research

Financial education Black youth Mathematics education Critical financial literacy Social justice Mathematics Curriculum Mathematics Teaching Secondary Mathematics

Latest funding

Navigating Blackness: Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Parents' and Youth's Perspectives on the Racialization of Mathematics Education
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$106,237
Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$37,691
Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$29,356

All 4 grants and awards

Navigating Blackness: Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Parents' and Youth's Perspectives on the Racialization of Mathematics Education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Osibodu, Oyemolade

$106,237

Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Osibodu, Oyemolade

Keywords: Black youth; Mathematics education; Critical financial literacy; Financial education; Social justice; Financial education; Mathematics Curriculum; Mathematics Teaching; Secondary Mathematics

$37,691

Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Osibodu, Oyemolade

Keywords: Black youth; Mathematics education; Critical financial literacy; Financial education; Social justice; Financial education; Mathematics Curriculum; Mathematics Teaching; Secondary Mathematics

$29,356

Critical Transitions: Identifying key factors shaping students' elementary, secondary, and post-secondary pathways

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Parekh, Gillian

Keywords: transition to high school; choices in education; ability grouping; post-secondary access; equity in education; institutional ethnography; quantitative analysis; critical policy analysis; system change; academic streaming; special education; leadership

$292,162

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: Financial education Dear Professor Osibodu, 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 financial education 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 "Navigating Blackness: Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Parents' and Youth's Perspectives on the Racialization of Mathematics Education" (2025), 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]