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Making space for women’s informal urban livelihoods

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 13–15 September 2018
Event / Conference: Expert Group Meeting for the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 63)
Location: Glen Cove, New York
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.

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

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 20 November 2017
Event / Conference: Michigan State University — African Studies Center, Center for Gender in Global Contexts, and MSU Museum
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
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.

Integration of and Interaction with Different Stakeholders (in Building a Strong Research Environment)

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 16–18 November 2016
Event / Conference: Grantees Meeting of the Africa Initiative
Location: Arusha, Tanzania
Discusses the importance of engaging and interacting with different stakeholders in building a strong research environment, drawing attention to collaboration, institutional relationships and the wider networks that support effective research.

In Defense of Insider Scholarship: Variations on a Theme

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 3–6 December 2014
Event / Conference: International Conference on Migrations of Knowledge: Potentials and Limits of Knowledge Production and Critique in Europe and Africa
Location: Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Reflects on insider scholarship, positionality and the politics of knowledge production, considering how scholars’ identities and locations shape representation, authority and the production of knowledge about Africa.

Sustainable Development and Women’s Agency

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 27–29 June 2014
Event / Conference: 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics
Location: Accra, Ghana
Explores the relationship between sustainable development and women’s agency, highlighting the importance of women’s participation, choices and economic opportunities in shaping more equitable development outcomes.

Viable Economic Opportunities for Rural Youth

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 18 March 2014
Event / Conference: Apply It! Rural Youth Webinar Series: Viable Economic Opportunities for Rural Youth
Location: Washington, DC
Discusses viable economic opportunities for rural youth, with particular attention to agriculture, employment, entrepreneurship and the conditions needed to create more productive and sustainable livelihoods for young people.
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How to Analyse Social Policy (Pro-Poor, Gender-Sensitive Analysis)

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 7 September 2011
Event / Conference: Regional Social Watch Training Workshop
Location: Accra, Ghana
Explores approaches to analysing social policy through pro-poor and gender-sensitive perspectives, with emphasis on how policy choices affect inequality, vulnerability and different groups within society.

Theorising Gender, Gender Relations and Gender Inequalities

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 12–13 April 2011
Event / Conference: Capacity-Building Workshop with MOWAC Staff
Location: Accra, Ghana
Explores key concepts of gender, gender relations and gender inequality, with emphasis on how social norms, institutions and power relations shape women’s and men’s experiences and opportunities.

Why Gender Matters in Microenterprise Development

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 14–25 March 2011
Event / Conference: Sustainable Microentreprise and Development Program
Location: Accra, Ghana
Examines why gender is important in microenterprise development, highlighting how women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, access to resources and economic opportunities shape enterprise outcomes.

What Do We Know About Women’s Lives in Africa and How Does That Affect How We Do Development?

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 3 November 2010
Event / Conference: 4th Sustainable Development Colloquium on Gender and Development in an African Context
Location: The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Reflects on what is known about women’s lives in Africa and considers how assumptions, evidence and representations of African women influence the design and practice of development interventions.

Understanding the Problem: The National Context

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 21–24 November 2008
Event / Conference: Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics
Location: Accra, Ghana
Examines the national context surrounding the challenge of developing and retaining the next generation of academics, with attention to the institutional and policy conditions shaping academic careers and higher education.

Perspectives of a Young Scholar

Type: Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Date: 5 February 2008
Event / Conference: Perspectives on Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics in African Universities
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Reflects on the experiences and perspectives of an emerging African scholar, with attention to the opportunities, challenges and institutional conditions affecting the development and retention of the next generation of academics in African universities.