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Examines the relationship between chieftaincy institutions and land tenure security in Ghana, highlighting challenges within customary land administration, institutional responses and the possibilities for reform to strengthen access, accountability and security of land rights.

Explores the place of the individual within development processes, considering how personal values, identities, aspirations and lived experiences interact with broader efforts to address poverty and promote social and economic development.

Examines questions of social inclusion and national belonging through Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, considering who was represented in the national narrative and how different groups experienced the commemorative events.

Examines the relationship between public policy and people’s personal lives through the concept of participation, considering how individuals experience, interpret and respond to development policies and programmes intended to involve them in decision-making.

Examines rural-to-rural child migration in West Africa, considering the circumstances that shape children’s movement between rural communities and the implications of migration for their livelihoods, well-being and development.