Dr Alhassan Abdullah
Lecturer
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
Alhassan Abdullah joined the faculty of the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, after completing his Ph.D. in Social Work. He has practice experience in child protection. Alhassan’s research embrace issues affecting the wellbeing of children and families. Specifically, his work focuses on child neglect and abuse, child protection and impacts of communities and culture in child maltreatment prevention. His current research focuses on developing early intervention and preventive measures to address maltreatment and violence against women, through the intersection of community-based cultural resources and statutory child protection. Alhassan’s approach to research and scholarship brings theoretical rigor to the study of child maltreatment and family violence prevention, and adopts a cultural lens to investigate indigenous community/neighborhood- based protective measures against child maltreatment.
Alhassan has carried out survey research in Ghana, and conducted research using data from Nepal, Hong Kong, Korea and China. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed articles (over 20 as first author) in leading social work journals, and 5 book chapters. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Child Abuse & Neglect (IF = 4.863, ranked 1 in social work by Google Scholar) Practice: Social Work in Action, and a member of the Social Work Innovation Living Space (SWIRLS), Flinders University.
PhD in Social Work
Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)
Grants
- Elderly Abuse in South Australia. Uniting Communities Research Grant, AUD $15,000, Chief Investigator, 2023
- Towards a multi-sectorial child welfare practice: An exploration of young people’s trajectory in the child welfare service in South Australia, EPSW Research Seed Grant, AUD $13,700, Chief Investigator, 2023
- Unravelling the Normative Underpinnings of Child Labor in Ghana: A Bottom-Up Study Among Hotspot Communities. RTA Fellowship Grant, International Labour Organization (ILO)(USD$ 10,000),PI, 2021-2022
- Child Maintenance as a Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Limitation of Case Assessment Approaches in Ghana. UNICEF Research Grant for Child Protection Research, (USD $ 8,300), PI, 2021-2022
- National study on violence against children in schools in Tunisia. UNICEF Tunisia, (USD $ 95,795), CO-PI, 2022-2023
- Assessment of Implementation of the Roadmap for Deinstitutionalisation in Ghana. UNICEF Ghana, (USD $ 9,000), 2021-2022
- Developing a model of virtual mentoring for first-year doctoral students during COVID-19 pandemic. U21 Graduate Collaborative Research Award, (USD $ 5,000), 2021-2022.
Honours and Awards
- Life Path Promising Scholar Conference Award, for ResilienceCon Conference. Award institution, Life Path Research Center, Tennessee United State, 2021
- Travel Support for Research Postgraduate Students for International Academic Training/Research Activities (Grant award USD $2,634), 2022
- The University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Fellowship to pursue PhD programme in Social Work. Monthly stipend and conference support. 2019
- Youth Excellence League (YEL) Awardee for academic exellence. Award value (GHS 5000.00), 2017
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Best undergraduate dissertation, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2017
Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Work Honours, 2023 -
Child wellbeing and protection
Social work with children and families
Research Methods in Social Work
Theories in Social Work
Violence and abuse
Culturally appropriate child protection
- 2023- Editorial Board Member, Child Abuse & Neglect
- 2023- Editorial Board Member, Child Protection and Practice
- 2022- Editorial Board Member, Practice Social Work in Action
- 2022- Special Guest Reviewer, Editorial Review Board, Journal of Social Service Research
- 2020- Member, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
- 2020- Member, Contextual Safeguarding Academics Network, UK
- 2018- Member, Ghana Association of Social Workers
- Child abuse
- Childcare
- Social work
- Child neglect & abuse
- Child protection
- Family violence
- Kinship foster care
- Polyvictimization
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