Dr Omoleye Ojuri

PhD Overview

The study argues that infrastructure projects can and should deliver many more benefits for individuals, communities and local economies than delivering basic functionality or engineering outputs. For instance, the social value of infrastructure can improve the quality of people’s well-being in the host community, help create decent jobs for the unemployed and help address inequalities and local socio-economic issues of the project location. The study challenges the traditional bureaucratic delivery of social infrastructure projects and provides the process of joint production of sustainable benefits to end-users. The research is the first to attempt to develop social network-driven value co-creation framework to manage the Nigerian water service system. The framework holds the potential to revolutionise the way we understand and evaluate the effective social value delivery of infrastructure projects.