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The UK Study Award is hosted annually by the British Council to recognise UK university alumni who have made an exceptional contribution and commitment to creating positive social change and improving the lives of others.
The award is in three categories, namely: Professional Achievement, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact Awards. For
the Social Impact Award category, a finalist emerged from each region, and Olusola Owonikoko emerged as the finalist for the Sub-Saharan African region.
Olusola received the IDS Graduate Scholarship to study for a Masters’s degree in Globalisation, Business, and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, from 2017 to 2018.