Research Projects

Selected funded and collaborative research projects

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Social Protection for Migrant Labour in the Ghanaian Pineapple Sector

Type: Social Policy & Development
Funder / Partner: DFID; Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex
Role: Co-Investigator
Period: 2007–2008
Examined the risks and vulnerabilities faced by internal migrant workers in Ghana’s pineapple export sector and explored how social protection mechanisms could better support workers exposed to insecure employment and commercial shocks.

Chieftaincy Institutions and Land Tenure Security: Challenges, Responses and the Potential for Reform

Type: Human Rights, Governance & Civic Action
Funder / Partner: World Bank; ISSER, University of Ghana
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 2006
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.

Mapping Sustainable Production in Ghanaian Cocoa

Type: Agriculture, Food & Climate
Funder / Partner: Cadbury Schweppes; Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; University of Ghana
Role: Research Team Member
Period: 2006–2007
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.

Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: Policy Discourses on Women’s Empowerment, Ghana/West Africa

Type: Gender & Women’s Empowerment
Funder / Partner: DFID; Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium
Role: Co-Investigator, West Africa Hub
Period: 2005–2010
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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