Dr Oladapo Akinlotan

Ola is a registered mental health nurse, earth scientist, an experienced healthcare practitioner and university academic with more than 13 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has expertise in nursing and health sciences, earth sciences, population and planetary health and health geosciences.

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Background

Ola is an experienced healthcare practitioner with over 17 years of experience in mental health nursing and learning disability. He is also a highly motivated and enthusiastic university academic with more than 13 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has education, experience and expertise in nursing and health sciences, earth sciences, population and planetary health and health geosciences.

He is a registered mental health nurse with a clinical background in acute impatient settings, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and community mental health services (CMHS). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and developing an international research profile.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Yoruba

Research interests

• Mental Health Nursing
• Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Population and Planetary Health
• Climate change and Health
• Health Geography/GeoHealth
• Health Inequalities
• Earth Sciences

Ola is a highly motivated and enthusiastic university academic with more than 13 years of teaching and researching in the United Kingdom. He has education, experience and expertise in nursing and health sciences, earth sciences and health geosciences. He is an active researcher and has published journal articles in leading international, peer-reviewed journals including Elsevier (science direct), Wiley, Taylor and Francis, MDPI, Cambridge and others. His research interests include mental health nursing, mental health and well-being, population and planetary health, climate change and health, health geography, health inequalities and earth sciences.

Areas of research supervision

• Qualitative Methods
• Systematic/ Literature reviews
• Mixed Methods

Ola would be pleased to consider supervising masters and doctoral students with the following research interests/topics related to mental health nursing, mental health and wellbeing, population and planetary health, climate change and health, health geography, health inequalities, health and social care, etc.

Recent and current postgraduate supervision

• The experience of caregivers of adults with mental illness: a systematic review of literature (MSc dissertation – ongoing).
• Stress and coping mechanisms among nurses (MSc dissertation – ongoing).
• A systematic literature review of workplace violence and aggression against nurses in acute hospital settings in high-income countries (MSc dissertation – ongoing).
• Effects of Instagram and TikTok Engagement on adolescent anxiety and depression: a systematic review (MSc dissertation – ongoing).
• ‘’I am less of a person because of this problem’’: a systematic review of mental health issues in infertile male (MSc dissertation - completed).
• Social media and the mental health of university students (MSc dissertation - completed).
• Stigmatisation of mental health in Africa: a systematic review (MSc dissertation - completed)
• Factors that influence mental health of bus drivers (MSc dissertation – completed).
• Perceptions/experience of healthcare professionals on electronic health/medical records: a systematic review (MSc dissertation – completed).
• Evaluating Palliative Care Practice in Oncology Setting (MSc dissertation – completed).
• Older adults’ experience of isolation during COVID-19 pandemic (MSc dissertation – completed).

Teaching

• BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration)
• MSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing (pre-registration)
• MSc Mental Health (post-registration)
• Other pre-registration and post-registration nursing programmes
• MSc Healthcare Management

Qualifications

• MSc - Mental Health Nursing, City, University of London (Distinction)
• Post Graduate Certificate - Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Sussex
• Post Graduate Certificate - Education (PGCE), University of Sussex (Distinction)
• Post Graduate Certificate - Research Methodology, University of Brighton
• PhD - Geoscience, University of Brighton
• MSc - Geoscience, University of Manchester
• BSc (Hons) - Geology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria (Second Class Upper)

Memberships, editorial boards

• Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Member, Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Reviewer: Journal of further and higher education (Taylor and Francis)
• Reviewer: Mental Health Practice (Royal College of Nursing)
• Reviewer: Nurse Researcher (Royal College of Nursing)
• Reviewer: Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing)
• Reviewer: Nursing Reports (MDPI)
• Reviewer: Healthcare (MDPI)
• Reviewer: Learning Disability Practice (Royal College of Nursing)
• Reviewer: Marine and Petroleum Geology (Elsevier)
• Reviewer: Journal of African Earth Sciences (Elsevier)
• Reviewer: Solid Earth (European Geoscience Union)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Principal Investigator, Research internship, ARU £4,500 (April 2025)
• Principal Investigator, Research internship, ARU £4,500 (April 2024)
• Principal Investigator, Research internship, ARU £4,500 (May 2024)
• Principal Investigator, Brunel University, London, UK, collaborative funding- £70,000 (August 2020)
• Principal Investigator, Robertson CGG, Wales, collaborative funding- £200,000 (August 2019)

Selected recent publications

Akinlotan, O., and Wagstaff, C. 2025. ‘When They Drop in and They Are Crying’: Experience of University Academics Supporting Students with Mental Health Problems. Healthcare, 13(15), pp. 1792. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13151792

Akinlotan, O., O'Connor, A., Peacham, B. and Crabb, L., 2025. ‘It Gives Me Safety to Be Here’: Patients' Perspectives About Safety on Psychiatric Wards. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34(1), p.e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.70014

Akinlotan, O.O., Okunuwadje, S.E. and Hatter, S.J., 2025.Basin inversion controls on diagenetic evolution of Lower Cretaceous non-marine succession: the English Wealden sandstones. Journal of Palaeogeography, 14(1), pp.15-39. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383624001275

Faleti, D.D. and Akinlotan, O., 2024. Stigmatisation of mental illness in Africa: a systematic review of qualitative and mixed studies. Journal of Mental Health, pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2426982

Akinlotan, O. and Drewry, H., 2024. Factors that influence the mental health of bus drivers: a systematic review. Mental Health & Prevention, p.200355. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212657024000370

Akinlotan, O. and Jalo, A., 2024. “I Am Actually Scared of Everyone”: Older Adults’ Experiences of Social Isolation during COVID-19: A Qualitative Systematic Review. COVID, 4(7), pp.896-909. https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/4/7/62

Akinlotan, O., 2024. Leading and managing a multidisciplinary team in health and social care: a critical and personal reflection. British Journal of Nursing, 33(12), pp.560-564. https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/bjon.2024.0063?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org

Akinlotan, O.O., Moghalu, O.A. and Anyiam, O.A., 2024. Petrography and mineralogy of the Wessex Basin: palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironments of Lower Cretaceous in southern England. Journal of Sedimentary Environments, pp.1-20. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43217-024-00194-6

Akinlotan, O.O., Moghalu, O.A., Hatter, S.J., Jolly, B.A. and Anyiam, O.A., 2024. Paleoclimatic Controls on Clay Mineral Distribution in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian): The Wessex Basin, Southeast England. Journal of Earth Science, 35(6), pp.2050-2066. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12583-023-1917-y

Akinlotan, O.O., Hatter, S. J., 2022. Depositional controls on diagenetic evolution of the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Sandstones (Wessex Basin, southeast England). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105948. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817222004263

Akinlotan, O.O., Moghalu, O.A., Hatter, S.J., Okunuwadje, S., Anquilano, L., Onwukwe, U., Haghani, S., Anyiam, O.A. and Jolly, B.A., (2022). Clay mineral formation and transformation in non-marine environments and implications for Early Cretaceous palaeoclimatic evolution: The Weald Basin, Southeast England. Journal of Palaeogeography 11 (3) 387-409. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383622000360

Akinlotan O., O’Connor, A. and Okunzuwa, O. 2025. University academics' experiences and perceptions of mental health problems. Accepted for publication in Journal of Further and Higher Education.

Akinlotan, O. 2025. Comorbidity management in nursing practice: managing mental health and physical health needs. Accepted for publication in British Journal of Mental Health Nursing.

Akinlotan, O. 2025. How nurse leaders can create succession plans. Accepted for publication in BJN Inform.

Akinlotan, O, O’Connor, A, Vidanage D. and Crabb, L., Climate change and mental health disorders: a systematic review (under review: Journal of Mental Health).

Akinlotan, O. and Lucas, G. Student experiences of mental health problems at UK universities: a qualitative systematic review (under review: Journal of Further and Higher Education).

Moin, A and Akinlotan O. Mental health literacy amongst British university academics (under review: Journal of Further and Higher Education).

Akinlotan, O, Millar, G. and Asamoah, E., Mental health and well-being of academics at British Universities (under review: Mental Health and Prevention).

Akinlotan, O, O’Connor, A. and Seetharamdoo, R. Palliative care in mental health nursing (under review: Mental Health and Prevention).

Akinlotan, O, Vidanage D., Ajibade, B, and Asamoah, E., Faleti, D. Udushirinwa C. Factors that influence suicide behaviours and tendencies amongst university undergraduates in Nigeria (under review: Journal of Mental Health).

Recent presentations and conferences

Akinlotan, O'Connor, Peacham, Crabb. 2025. “It gives me safety to be here”: patients’ perspectives about safety on psychiatric wards. Poster presentation at the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. 18th & 19th September 2025.

Akinlotan, O., O'Connor, Peacham, Crabb. 2025. Safety on psychiatric wards: patients’ perspectives. Poster presentation at the International Congress of Nurses, Helsinki, Finland, 9-13 June 2025.

Akinlotan, O., Alizeh Moin, A. 2025. ‘I’m not trained, I’m not qualified’: a systematic review of the mental health literacy amongst British university academics. Poster presentation at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 9-10 April, 2025

Akinlotan, O., Alizeh Moin, A. 2025. ‘I’m not trained, I’m not qualified’: a systematic review of the mental health literacy amongst British university academics. Oral and poster presentations at the School of Medicine annual conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK, 8th May 2025

Akinlotan, O. 2024. Students’ experiences of mental health problems at UK universities: a systematic review. Oral presentation at the Faculty of Health, Medicine & Social Care research conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK, 10 May 2024.

Media experience

Ola welcomes invitation from media organisations and he’s willing to engage the media/public on his teaching and research interests.