Regina Obilie Amoako-Sakyi is a Transport Geographer with the University of Cape Coast. She has been working on child and youth mobility issues in Ghana for over a decade now. As a rising academic, she has considerable number of publications on a cross section of transport and mobilities issues focusing on women and children and the youth in both rural and urban contexts. Her work also covers child pedestrian safety, safe and secured walking environments and bus transit service quality. Currently, she is working on harnessing driver-child pedestrian relationships in improving child pedestrian safety in Ghana.
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Dr. (Mrs.) Regina Obilie Amoako-Sakyi
Senior Lecturer - ( Senior Member ) Department of Geography and Regional PlanningHall Master
Adehye HallField(s) of Academic Interest
About
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Head of Department
Department of Geography and Regional Planning
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Presented a paper
Mobility and Access in Sub-Saharan African Cities workshop, 17th – 19th September 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Presented a paper
American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting Washington D.C, USA.
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Presented Paper on Exploring the relationship between child traffic safety perception and injury outcomes on routes to school.
Early Career Researchers Workshop. Oxford University, U.K..
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Presented a paper on "The journey to school: An assessment of school route walkability in Cape Coast"
INTALInC, Ghana workshop. UCC, Cape Coast.
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Presented a paper on "Correlates of distance to school: a case study of school pupils' journey to school in the cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana".
American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting in. 5-9 April, 2017 Boston, MA., USA.
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Presented a paper on "Transport and Mobilities for vulnerable populations: Ghana Case study"
INTALInC Experts’ meeting. Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Weetwoods Hall, Leeds.
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Presented a paper on "Plagiarism in Academic writing"
Workshop for Female Academic Senior Members organised by the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD). University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast.
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Presented a paper on "Road crossing safety for vulnerable road users: school pupils’ assessment of their walking routes in the Cape Coast metropolis of Ghana".
13th International conference on Urban Health (ICUH) San Francisco, California. USA.
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Presented a paper on "The other side of active transportation to school: basic school pupils’ assessment of security on their routes to school"
Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting. San Francisco, California. USA.
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Presented a paper on ‘The role of women in Geography’
Geographical Society (GEOSOC) Seminar University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast..
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Presented a paper on ‘Road Safety: Driver contribution’.
Division of Training and Development's In-service training for Drivers University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
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Presented a paper on ‘Road safety in Ghana: an assessment of pedestrian action before impact’.
Association of American Geographers meeting. Tampa-Florida, USA..
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Presented a paper on ‘Running an efficient University shuttle: A reflection of challenges in the public transport system in Ghana?’
Association of American Geographers meeting. Los Angeles-California, USA..
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Presented a paper on ‘Safety of pedestrians in Ghana with emphasis on the Cape Coast Metropolis: An Urban transport Planning Agenda’.
6th Africa Transport Technology Transfer Conference. Gaborone, Botswana..
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Presented a paper on ‘Bicycles: An answer to mobility needs of rural children?’
2nd Africa Community Access Programme (AFCAP)’ Rural Transport Practitioners Conference. Maputo, Mozambique..
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Presented a paper on ‘Riding for Fun? Bicycle use among children in Rural Ghana’.
Intellectbase Academic Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA..
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Poster presentation on ‘Perceptions on female bicycle use and infertility among some Ghanaian communities’.
6th Union of African Population Studies (UAPS) Conference. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso..
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Paper presentation on ‘Risk of injury and bicycle use among Children: A comparative study of two Geo-ecological zones in urban Ghana’.
10th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH). Belo Horizonte, M.G, Brazil..
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Chaired a session and Presented a paper on "Implications of improved technology on seaport operations: the case of containerisation and the stevedoring industry at the Tema port’.
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meeting. New York City, NY, USA..
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Expert participant
Experts meeting on Transport and Mobilities: Meeting the Needs of Informal Settlements and Slum Dwellers in Nigeria. Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria..
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Expert participant
Experts meeting on Transport and Mobilities: Meeting the Needs of Working Women. University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh..
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Expert participant
i. Experts meeting on Transport and Mobilities: Pathways to transformation. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.