Adesola Akinyemi is the Founder of The Sociology Hub and a Sociology curriculum designer with over ten years' experience. Holding the National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching (NPQLT) and an MA in Social Justice and Education, she has led and developed GCSE and A-level Sociology curricula across several secondary schools, supporting departments to deliver engaging, inclusive, and high-quality Sociology education. She also has experience designing and delivering professional development for teachers, including CPD focused on A-level teaching and inclusive education.

Drawing on extensive classroom experience and curriculum expertise, Adesola creates evidence-informed resources that help teachers reduce planning time without compromising on quality. Every lesson is carefully designed with curriculum sequencing, retrieval practice, explicit vocabulary instruction, modelling, scaffolding, metacognitive strategies and assessment guidance aligned with examination requirements, enabling teachers to spend more time teaching and less time creating resources from scratch. Her approach has contributed to strong student outcomes in her career, including +0.6 value added and an ALPS score of 1.10 with her most recent A-level Sociology cohort.

A strong advocate of metacognition, Adesola believes that students make the greatest progress when teachers explicitly model expert thinking. Her resources therefore place a strong emphasis on making thinking visible through carefully sequenced explanations, worked examples, modelling, scaffolding and opportunities for students to develop increasingly independent analytical and evaluative skills.

Adesola is particularly passionate about inclusive curriculum design and applying sociological thinking to curriculum development. She believes high- quality Sociology education should be accessible to all students, encourage them to think critically, engage with diverse perspectives and develop a deeper understanding of the social world, and should also enable them to see themselves and other groups in what they learn and see during the learning process.

Through The Sociology Hub, Adesola's mission is to support Sociology teachers through evidence-informed curriculum design, ready-to-teach resources, professional development, educational collaboration and contributions to the wider Sociology education community.