Grant & Awards

1. PhD Fellowship Grant: United Nations University- World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki, Finland, 2nd September to 25th November, 2016.

2. Gender Travel Grant: Author AID travel grant for attending the 7th African Population conference, Demographic Dividend in Africa: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges, organised by the Union of African Population Studies, St. George Hotel-Pretoria, South Africa, 30th November to 4th December, 2015.

• Paper Presented: Media and the Misconception of Feminine Traits in Men and Masculine Traits in Women as Being Homosexual: Insights from Students of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

3. Research Grant: International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) grant for the research on Organising the Informal Economy, 6th June to 17th December, 2014.

• Publication: Akorsu, A. & Odoi, A. (In Press). Collective Agency and Organizing Among Domestic Workers in Ghana In Webster, E., Britwum, A. O. and Sharit, B., (Eds) Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour, Chapter Eleven, South Africa, UKZN Press.

4. Fellowship Grant: Australian Leadership Awards, Building the Capacity of African Women Leaders: Gender Inclusive Development, Adelaide, South Australia, 9th August to 4th November, 2012

5. Research Grant: French Embassy Small Grants for Social Sciences and Humanities, Insitut de Recherche Francais en Afrique (IFRA), Nigeria. Grant for field for MPhil thesis, June 2010.

• Publication: Perceptions Towards Forced Sex in Marriage in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Cape Coast in Partial Fulfillment of a Master of Philosophy Degree in Sociology.