Angela Dziedzom Akorsu is an Associate Professor and the Dean of the School for Development Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in the UK. She has been engaged in outreach activities involving trade union education and post-graduate research supervision for close to 20 years. Professor Akorsu’s scholarly research interests are around informal economy organising, gender and rural women’s livelihoods, decent work along agricultural value chains. Philosophical foundations of development Studies as well as Gender and Development are among her enduring interests.
Prof. Angela Dziedzom Akorsu
About
Focus & expertise
Academic interests · number = colleagues who share it
Recent activity
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Conference
Dec 2019
ILO ACTRAV Workshop on 'Integrating Youth into Trade Unions'
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Conference
Jul 2019
ILO’s 6th RDW Conference
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Conference
Mar 2019
XIV Global Labour University Conference
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Keynote lecture
Jan 2019
Filling Gender Gaps and removing Traps in Sustainable Agricultural production Systems
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Keynote lecture
Jan 2019
The Role of Women in Promoting Quality Public Services Delivery and National Development.
Background
🎓 Education & qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies
University of Manchester
2010
Master of Arts in Development Studies
Institute of Social Studies
2001
★ Career & positions
Head of Department
Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
Aug, 2020 to Aug, 2023
Dean
School for Development Studies
Aug, 2022 to Jul, 2025
Teaching & projects
Dr. Akorsu has been contributing to the teaching of Philosophical Foundations of Development Studies at the School for development Studies. In this post-graduate level course, four key themes are treated and these are: (1) ontological assumptions that underpin development theory to explain social reality; (2) epistemological assumptions that underpin knowledge construction, providing a basis for evaluating knowledge claims and their effects on development theory and practice; ( 3) feminists epistemology and African philosophy as alternatives to mainstream philosophical thinking and (4) Philosophical perspectives of political ethics and governance.
Engagements
🎤 Keynote lectures
Filling Gender Gaps and removing Traps in Sustainable Agricultural production Systems
Tropentag 2019 International Conference, Kassel: Germany · 2019-01-01
The Role of Women in Promoting Quality Public Services Delivery and National Development.
7th National Women's Conference of PSWU, Kumasi: Ghana · 2019-01-01
The New Development Agenda of Public Private Partnership: The main issues for women
6th National Women’s Conference of PSWU, Kumasi: Ghana · 2015-01-01
📅 Conferences attended
2019
ILO’s 6th RDW Conference
Presenter · Geneva, Switzerland
2019
XIV Global Labour University Conference
Presenter · Berlin, Germany
2018
EU-Africa Inequality Conference
Panelist · Vienna, Austria
2018
XIII Global Labour University Conferenc
Presenter · Campinas, Brazil
2017
International Workshop on Gender and Rural Livelihoods
Presenter · Njoro, Kenya
2017
International Symposium on Global Value Chains and Decent Work Deficit
Presenter · Faisalabad, Pakistan
2017
International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals and the Place of Labour
Presenter · Merida, Mexico
2017
International Workshop on Development Induced Displacement and Accountability in Development Policy
Presenter · Kassel: Germany
2017
International PhD Workshop for ICDD Scholars
Resource Person · Njoro, Kenya
2016
Workshop on Enhancing Gender Equality in the Management and Leadership of Higher Education,
Presenter · Nairobi, Kenya
2016
International Conference on Labour and Public Service Market-led Reforms
Presenter · Cape Coast, Ghana
2016
Female Faculty Workshop
Resource Person · Multan, Pakistan
2019
ILO ACTRAV Workshop on 'Integrating Youth into Trade Unions'
Presenter · Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
Honors & affiliations
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Member
International Association of Feminist Economists · 2015
Colleagues & frequently viewed together
Prof. Akua Opokua Britwum
Associate Professor · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Dr. Shaibu Bukari
Senior Research Fellow · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Dr. Musah Dankwah
Research Fellow · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Mr. Benjamin Yaw Tachie
Research Fellow · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Prof. Akua Opokua Britwum
Associate Professor · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Dr. Shaibu Bukari
Senior Research Fellow · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Dr. Musah Dankwah
Research Fellow · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies
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Prof. Anokye Mohammed Adam
Professor · Department of Finance
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Mr. Maurice Kukuri
Chief Research Assistant(Teaching Assistant) · Department of Environment, Governance and Sustainable Development
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Prof. (Mrs.) Sarah Darkwa
Professor · Department of Vocational and Technical Education
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