Bankolay Theodore Turay is a Sierra Leonean Doctoral Scholar in Sustainable Urbanisation, with the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development,University of Lagos, as part of the WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN Lab, a DAAD funded scholarship. He holds a B.A in Development Studies (UNIMAK-Sierra Leone) and MSc. in Land Governance & Policy (KNUST-Ghana). He  has experience working in rural communities on research, women’s land right and urbanization. His areas of interest are: sustainable development, urbanization, women’s land rights and land governance reforms. His PhD thesis is on; “ Women’s Access to Land for Sustainable Livelihood: Evaluating the effects of Tenure Conflicts in Peri-Urban Settlements, a case study of  Sierra Leone.