Dorothy Takyiakwaa is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation. She employs intersectionality, feminist methodologies and decolonial lens to unpacking power and inequalities embedded in issues of gender relations, social justice, collective action, livelihoods, poverty, migration, conflict, social stratification, class, conflict, politics of and in Africa, and knowledge production. Besides her personal research and teaching, she has shared her expertise by consulting for UNFPA Ghana, Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC), and Plan International Ghana. Other independent research and advocacy have been done with funding from reputable organisations such as the British Academy and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Having been a doctoral fellow on the Academy for African Urban Diversity (2017/2018), Dorothy is currently a post-doctoral fellow on Andrew Mellon foundation funded project on ‘Entanglement, Mobility and Improvisation: Culture and the Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands’. She was a visiting scholar at University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies, on a BIRCA funded project ‘Decolonising the Hegemonic Narratives on FGM’. Dr Dorothy Takyiakwaa studied at the University of Cape Coast and Hanze University of Applied Sciences. Before joining the University of Cape Coast, she was a Research Scientist at the Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Dr. Dorothy Takyiakwaa
About
Focus & expertise
Specializations
Academic interests · number = colleagues who share it
Recent activity
Social mobility among ‘re-migrant’ women in Ghana (with travel support from the ‘Upward Social Mobility Among Female Remigrants/Returnees In West Africa’, MPI for Social Anthropology, Germany) (Ongoing)
Cohabitation among in-school and out-of-school youth: the case of university students and the youth in UNFPA-supported communities in the Central Region of Ghana (June 2022 - Ongoing)
Construction of gender within schools and its implications for forming healthy relationships and gender-based violence (GBV) among young people (YP) aged 13-19 in England and Ghana. (March - October 2022)
Case studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the responses from West African universities. Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA), IEPA and CEGRAD, IDRC funded Project (July - November, 2021)
Exploring Gendered Relations in a COVID-19 Era: A Study of Selected Fishing Communities in the Central Region. DRIC funded Research (December 2020 - July 2021)
Background
🎓 Education & qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology
University of Cape Coast
2017
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
University of Cape Coast
2013
Teaching & projects
Change is the only constant in our world. This means everything around is speedily changing mainly to accommodate and provide trends, tastes and new ways of doing things. This is same with the academic environment where diverse people come in periodically, new tools are emerging and challenges abound, yet higher educational structures are slow in catching up or even leading the change. In response therefore, I am open-minded and design my teaching and learning spaces (to the best of my ability) to utilize diverse methods (written, audio, visual, imaginary aids, online & offline) to engender student/learners creativity, give constructive feedback, and assess not only based on text but also discussions, debates, audio-visual and other creative outputs. From a feminist tradition of empathy, intersectionality and social justice, I encourage and provide alternative lenses (African and decolonial lens, power analysis) for my students and learners to be open-minded, ask questions, seek to understand and not to be afraid to critique local and broader social issues. Learners and students are also co-creators of knowledge: thus, I learn from them too. I work towards changing toxic norms and hope that through my teaching and learning attitudes and behaviours will change towards social justice.
Projects
Social mobility among ‘re-migrant’ women in Ghana (with travel support from the ‘Upward Social Mobility Among Female Remigrants/Returnees In West Africa’, MPI for Social Anthropology, Germany) (Ongoing)
Principal Investigator
June 2022 - Present
Cohabitation among in-school and out-of-school youth: the case of university students and the youth in UNFPA-supported communities in the Central Region of Ghana (June 2022 - Ongoing)
Team Member (CEGRAD)
June 2022 - Present
Construction of gender within schools and its implications for forming healthy relationships and gender-based violence (GBV) among young people (YP) aged 13-19 in England and Ghana. (March - October 2022)
Co-Investigator (Ghana Team)
March 2022 - June 2022
Case studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the responses from West African universities. Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA), IEPA and CEGRAD, IDRC funded Project (July - November, 2021)
Co-consultant
July 2021 - November 2021
Intersectional Gender Equality Assessment for Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprises (WISE) Project in Ghana. (March-October, 2021)
Co-Investigator
March 2021 - October 2021
Exploring Gendered Relations in a COVID-19 Era: A Study of Selected Fishing Communities in the Central Region. DRIC funded Research (December 2020 - July 2021)
Team Member (CEGRAD)
December 2020 - July 2021
Documentation of the Status of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and Mid-Term Analysis of the UNFPA Adolescent Girls Programme (AGP) in the Central Region, Ghana. UNFPA, Dept. of Gender, & CR Co-ord. Council (Sep. 2020-Jan. 2021)
Team Member (CEGRAD)
September 2020 - January 2021
Poultry Value Chain Baseline Study, KOPIA Ghana Centre and CSIR-ARI Project. (August - December, 2019)
Co-Investigator
August 2019 - December 2019
Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA), Agrarian Change and Commercialisation in the Ghanaian Cocoa Sector (WS2), ISSER, University of Ghana (May - December 2019)
Research Assistant & Scoping Report Writing Team Member
May 2019 - December 2019
Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA), Oil Palm Commercialisation Models and Outcomes in South Western Ghana (WS1), ISSER, University of Ghana (Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2021)
Research Assistant & WP Writing Team Member
April 2019 - September 2021
Publications ORCID 0000-0002-7471-9857 →
Engagements
🎤 Keynote lectures
Revisiting a Dark Past: Reactions of visitors
(Virtual) National University of Singapore Electronic-Study Trip for Engagement and EnRichment (NUS E-STEER) Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021 · 2021-10-12
📅 Conferences attended
Honors & affiliations
Colleagues & frequently viewed together
Dr. Emmanuel Asante
Lecturer · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Prof. Eric Koka
Associate Professor · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Dr. Solomon Sika-Bright
Senior Lecturer · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Prof. Daniel Yaw Fiaveh
Associate Professor · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Prof. Daniel Yaw Fiaveh
Associate Professor · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Qualitative Research Methodology
Gender Studies
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Prof. Nana Yaw Oppong
Professor · Department of Human Resource Management
Qualitative Research Methodology
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Dr. Saibu Mutaru
Senior Lecturer · Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Qualitative Research Methodology
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Dr. John Oti Amoah
Senior Research Fellow · Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation
Gender Studies
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Mr. Henry K Blavo
Junior Hall Assistant III · Ghana University Staff Superannuation Scheme Hall
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