Prof. George Owusu is an urban geographer. He has served as Head of the Department of Geography & Resource Development, founding Director of CUMS and Dean of the School of Social Sciences. Professor Owusu’s research interests are urbanization and urban planning, regional development and planning, small and medium-sized urban centres, decentralization and local government, urban/peri-urban land tenure and land administration, landfill and waste management, urban youth, enterprises and employment and urban Crime and violence.
Email: gowusu@ug.edu.gh
Prof. Martin Oteng-Ababio is an urban environmental geographer. He was the former Acting Director of CUMS, Acting Provost of the College of Education and Head of the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana. His research interests are in urbanisation, urban planning and development, waste management, environmental management, and disaster risk-related and climate change issues.
Email: moteng-ababio@ug.edu.gh
Prof. Charlotte Wrigley-Asante is a geographer with a specialisation in Gender Studies. She was the past Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) (2018-2021); Director of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (2021-2022) and currently the Head of the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana. Her research areas include gender, poverty and empowerment issues; gendered livelihoods in urban Ghana focusing specifically on cross-border traders; gender, crime and safety issues in urban public spaces.
Email: cwrigley-asante@ug.edu.gh
Prof. Alex Barimah Owusu is a geoinformation scientist. His research areas include Geographic Information Science (GIS), Remote Sensing Applications, Spatial Intelligence, Managing GIS, Environmental Policy and Planning, Climate Vulnerability Analysis, Agricultural Land Use and Food Security.
Email: abowusu@ug.edu.gh
Prof. Gerald Yiran is a geodetic engineer and geographer. He is the Country Coordinator (UG), Next Generation of Researchers (NGR-Africa); a member of the Ghana Geographical Association, the Ghana Environment Information Network Steering Committee, ECOHEALTH, and the Environment and Natural Resources Research Unit (ENRRU). His areas of specialisation include Geographic Information Systems/Remote sensing; vulnerability/adaptation to climate variability change; land degradation/land use and land cover change; sustainability studies; urban studies; and quantitative research methods.
Email: gyiran@ug.edu.gh
Prof. Isaac Osei-Akoto is an econometrician and has special skills in the design and analysis of socio-economic surveys. He has been working quite extensively on issues concerning financing and behavioural changes resulting from policy reforms in the healthcare sector in Ghana. His interest areas include issues relating to poverty and the provision of public goods and services.
Email: ioseiak@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Aba Obrumah Crentsil is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economics Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Her research focuses on the interactions between populations and their environments (climate and energy), evaluation planning, urban planning and how to accommodate research in the above fields by using planning supporting systems such as geographic information systems (GIS) and other computer-aided planning tools.
Email: aocrentsil@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Robert L. Afutu-Kotey is Senior Lecturer and an expert in Development and Planning Studies. His main areas of research include urban youth employment, regional and urban planning, and decentralization and local government reforms.
Email: rafutu-kotey@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Ebenezer G. A. Nikoi is a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon. His areas of specialization are nutritional health, health and development, health policy, migration and health, migration and conflict, climate change and health outcomes.
Email: enikoi@ug.edu.gh
Dr Ebenezer F. Amankwaa is an urban geographer and a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana. He is an Affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), a Research Fellow at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, and a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on urban sustainability and cuts across the fields of social, economic and development geography.
Email: efamankwaa@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Cynthia Addoquaye Tagoe is a senior research fellow at the University of Ghana. Her research areas are migration, decentralization, gender-related Developmental issues, participatory approaches to Governance, institutions and Urban Development.
Email: candy-tagoe@isser.ug.edu.gh
Dr. Collins Badu Agyemang is a Senior Lecturer of Psychology and Coordinator at the Pan-African Doctoral Academy, University of Ghana-Legon. He is the National President of the Ghana Psychological Association (GPA) and has served for the past eight years as a member of the National Executive Committee. He is currently a Visiting Courtesy Professor to the Department of Psychology, University of South Florida (Tampa Campus), USA. His research focuses on occupational safety and health, humanitarian psychology, organizational Behavior, corporate leadership and psycho-social aspects of organizations.
Email: cbagyemang@ug.edu.gh
Dr. George Domfe is a Development Economist and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS) at the College of Humanities, University of Ghana. After training as a professional teacher at Kumasi’s Wesley College between 1995 and 1998, he worked with the Ghana Education Service (GES) as a Principal Superintendent for a decade until 2008. Dr Domfe then worked with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana from 2008 to 2010 as a Principal Research Assistant (PRA). He was a Lecturer of Economics at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) between August 2012 and December 2013. His research focuses on poverty & inequality; gender; impact assessment and inclusive Development.
Email: gdomfe@ug.edu.gh
Dr Isaac K. Arthur is the director of the Centre for Urban Management Studies and senior lecturer of human geography at the University of Ghana. His background is in Planning and Development as well as Heritage resource management. He is an interdisciplinary researcher and has researched in areas such as urban studies, planning and development, the experience economy, migration, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship in rural food-related enterprises. He is a member of the Regional Studies Association, UK, and an editorial board member of the African Journal for Housing and Sustainable Development.
Email: ikarthur@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Yaw Agyeman Boafo is a Senior Research Fellow in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies at the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, University of Ghana. His current research and teaching interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation, nature-based solutions (biodiversity and ecosystem services), disaster risk reduction and resilience, and food and farming systems. He has been an active participator and contributor to multi-level and multi-stakeholder climate change and biodiversity assessments (national, regional, and district) including serving as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Lead Reviewer for Ghana’s Fourth National Communication to the UNFCC.
Email: yboafo@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Austin Dziwornu Ablo is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana. He earned a PhD in development geography from the University of Bergen (Norway) in 2016. His research interests revolve around urban studies, natural resource governance, entrepreneurship and development. With a disciplinary background in human geography, he draws upon relational perspectives, political ecology, political economy as well as organizational and institutional approaches to explore human-environment interactions at multiple scales. His research focuses on urban sprawl, land-use change, housing, private urbanism, natural resource governance and politics, climate change and environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship and employment, gender, and rural development.
Email: aablo@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Rabiu Kwaku Boakye Asante is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. His major research interests include technology and society, ICT and informal markets, mHealth, digital gaming, social networks, smart governance, and digital research in Ghana and Africa. He has considerable experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis having worked with UNICEF, WHO, Northwest University (South Africa), and the University of South Florida (USA). He is a member of the Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association (GSAA), Southern Sociological Society (SSS), Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), American Sociological Association (ASA), African Studies Association (ASA), Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA), CODESRIA, QRMAfrica.
Email: rkbasante@ug.edu.gh
Dr Clement Kwang is a lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Ghana. His area of specialisation includes Web and GIS Programming, Geodatabase, Land use and land cover change, Mineralization exploration using remote sensing and GIS techniques, and Environmental management with remote sensing and GIS.
Email: ckwang@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Boadi Agyekum is a Senior Lecturer and holds a PhD in Geography from McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Boadi is theCoordinator of Tema Learning Centre. His research as a whole spans several traditions, from scholarship based on large quantitative data sets to qualitative analysis based on interviews with students and vulnerable groups in society. He has a keen interest in learning environments research, religion, migration, mental health, quality of life, and community development education in general.
Email: cbagyemang@ug.edu.gh