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How Can I Come to Work on Saturdays When I Have a Family? Ghanaian Women’s Formal Work in a Neoliberal Era

Examines how changing workplace demands in Ghana’s formal sector intersect with women’s family responsibilities, highlighting the pressures experienced by women workers in a neoliberal employment environment.
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Making space for women’s informal urban livelihoods

Examines how policies and urban systems can better recognise and support women’s informal livelihoods, with particular attention to social protection, public services and sustainable infrastructure.
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Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: Policy Discourses on Women’s Empowerment, Ghana/West Africa

Examined how women’s empowerment was understood and promoted by government institutions, development agencies and practitioners in Ghana, with particular attention to policy discourses, institutional practice and the strategies used to advance gender equality.
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Chieftaincy Institutions and Land Tenure Security: Challenges, Responses and the Potential for Reform

Examined how chieftaincy institutions influence land tenure security in Ghana, focusing on the challenges customary land institutions face, their responses to tenure insecurity and the potential for institutional reform.
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Mapping Sustainable Production in Ghanaian Cocoa

Examined the socioeconomic dimensions of sustainable cocoa production in Ghana, including farmer livelihoods, value-chain relationships and the conditions affecting long-term sustainability in cocoa-growing communities.
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