Dr Idahosa holds a PhD and an MA in Political Studies from Rhodes University. This a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. She was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute between February and June 2020 and a 2019/2020 visiting scholar at the School of Social Science, Education and Social Work (SSESW), Queens University Belfast.
Her research employs a structure, agency, and transformation framework to interrogate how social factors like gender, race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity, intersect to enable/limit individual agency. Her research interests include political and social theory, body politics, agency and social transformation, organisational change, and institutional culture.