Courses

At the Regional Institute for Population Studies

Doctoral

• Population and Development Theories and Policies
• Logic of Social Research
• Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology
• Climate Risk Assessment, Population and Policy

Master’s

• Methods of Social Research
• Population Dynamics
• Population, Environment and Development
• Population Change, Agriculture and Food Security
• Population, Education and Development
• Population Theory and Policy
• Quantitative Research Methodology

Elsewhere at the University of Ghana and abroad

• Research Methods in Migration Studies I and II
• Migration and Population Dynamics
• Techniques in Social Policy Analysis — Centre for Social Policy Studies
• Research Methods — Doctoral, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)
• Concepts and Methods in Advanced Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction — MPhil, Department of Geography and Resource Development
• Advanced Quantitative Research Methods — PhD, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD)
• Research Methodology — MA, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD)
• Climate Change, Health and Development — International Master’s Programme, Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Environment and Society in Africa — Undergraduate, Sociology Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• Urban Health in Sub-Saharan Africa — Georgetown University, USA

Supervision

Over the years, he has mentored and supervised: 3 Research Fellows; 9 Postdoctoral Researchers; 35 PhD Candidates; 7 Experiential Learners; 15 MPhil Students and over 40 MA Students.

Notably, four of his mentees currently serve as faculty members at RIPS, with one rising to the position of Director.

Doctoral theses supervised

• Emmanuel Owusu, Influence of biophysical factors and solid waste on flood risk among selected urban communities in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (2025)
• Jones Frimpong, Availability of school-based WASH facilities: Implications for menstrual hygiene management, school attendance and learning outcomes in Ghana (2024)
• Michael Amponsah, Migration and sustainable practices: Investigating the mediating role of relative deprivation and subjective well-being among migrants and non-migrants in Accra
• Kingsley Jones, Securitising climate change adaptation in Ghana: A critical examination of environmental behaviour among migrants (2024)
• Elvis Botah, Climate change, human security and risk of violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of the Lake Chad Basin (2024)
• David Adumbire, The burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in two selected districts in northern Ghana (2024)
• Crystal Letsa, Population dynamics, changes in land use/cover and flood risk in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (2024)
• Vida Nyawornota, Perceived neighbourhood environment and physical activity in Ghana (2024)
• Aicha Araba Etrew, Gender dynamics in global terrorism – Are women agents or passive victims? (2024)
• Stephen Yir-eru Engmen, Actors, institutions and outcomes of country-based management of drinking water supply in rural Ghana: A case study of Nadowli-Kaleo District (2024)
• Elvis Mends, Climate Change and Transhumance in West Africa. A case study of Fulani herdsmen (2024)
• Philip Aniah, Effects of Land Use/Cover Changes on Provisioning Ecosystem Services: Implications for Farmers Coping and Adaptation Strategies in the Upper East Region, Ghana (2022)
• Jeniffer Ayamga, Biophysical and Socioeconomic Determinants of Cropping Systems Productivity (2020)
• Martin Agyekum Wiredu, Birth weight, birth size and exclusive breastfeeding in Ghana (2020)
• Kirk Anderson, Vulnerability and autonomous adaptation to disaster risk reduction. Comparative study of communities within the Volta Delta (2020)
• Stephen Omari, Vulnerability and Adaptation of farming households to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid Ghana (2019)
• Margaret Appiah, Assessing household burden of climate related health outcomes and adaptation in coastal communities in Ghana (2019)
• Benjamin Bilalam Jabik, Investigation of planned and autonomous climate change adaptation practices by small-scale farmers in the Upper East Region, Ghana (2019)
• Eric Adjei Boadu, Child-parent living arrangement and educational attainment in Ghana (2019)
• Frank Kyei-Arthur, Family caregiving: Experiences of caregivers and their elderly care recipients in urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana (2018)
• Grace Agyemang-Frempong, The influence of body size estimation on weight management behaviours in Accra, Ghana (2018)
• Abubakari Sulemana, Relative risk of women dying from maternal, infectious or non-communicable causes in Kintampo, Ghana: A competing risk analysis (2018)
• Reuben Larbi, Examining the drivers of urban flood risk: Implications for planned adaptation (2018)
• Donatus Yaw Atiglo, Gendered vulnerability and environmental migration in the Volta Delta (2018)
• Ibrahim Tanko Azzika, An analysis of the trichotomous relationship between climate change, migration and food security in the savannah agro-ecological zone of Ghana (2018)
• Amoah Antwi-Boasiakoh, Biomass burning among fish processors in Ghana: implications for climate, health and welfare (2018)
• Aaron Christian, Household vulnerability and adaptation options in resource-poor communities in Accra, Ghana (2017)
• Morkor Akita Cecilia, Intra and inter-regional female migration in Upper West Region of Ghana (2016)
• Fidelia Akpene Dake, The built environment and the risk of obesity among the urban poor in Accra, Ghana (2015)
• Henry Tagoe, Urban poverty and household chronic non-communicable disease burden (2015)
• Francis Jarawura, Climate related stress, livelihood and adaptation among peasant migrants in southern Ghana (2015)
• Abu Mumuni, Flooding and diarrheal disease in poor urban communities in Accra, Ghana (2014)
• Philip Mantey, Linking conservation, sustainable livelihood and poverty in the Central region of Ghana (2014)
• Emmanuel Anyang Abeka, Adaptation to urban floods among the poor in the Accra Metropolitan Area (2014)
• Regina Sagoe, Livelihood vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ghana. A gender perspective (2012)

Doctoral candidates

• Madonna Oduro, Gender, Climate Change, Habitability and Migration in Ghana
• Emmanuel Sessou, The role of managerial science in addressing capacity challenges in the implementation of urban water supply systems in Ghana
• Lukman Abdul–Rahim, Urban resilience in Accra’s informal settlements: Exploring ethnicity and migrant identity
• Fon Brunstead, Socio-demographic differentials, perceptions and responses to drought among communities in the Savannah region of Ghana