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Appointment
- Lecturer (Teaching)
- Arts and Sciences (BASc)
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Lecturer (Teaching) MSc in Social Development Practice
- Development Planning Unit
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Biography
She is an urban anthropologist with over a decade of professional, research, and teaching experience that focuses on issues of urban social and spatial development, informality, participation, and governance from below.
She holsd a Dr. Phil. (German equivalent of Ph.D.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, from the Department of Political and SocialSciences, Free University Berlin. In her thesis, she ethnographically explored how changing patterns of migration are creating new forms of everyday governance practices in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Afia has conducted research and taught at a variety of interdisciplinary institutes including the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research (Helsinki), The Centre for Metropolitan Studies (Berlin) and the Leibniz Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg). Prior to her doctorate, she worked as a strategic consultant for the built environment alongside spatial planners, architects, engineers and economists for three years.
She holsd a Dr. Phil. (German equivalent of Ph.D.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, from the Department of Political and SocialSciences, Free University Berlin. In her thesis, she ethnographically explored how changing patterns of migration are creating new forms of everyday governance practices in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Afia has conducted research and taught at a variety of interdisciplinary institutes including the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research (Helsinki), The Centre for Metropolitan Studies (Berlin) and the Leibniz Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg). Prior to her doctorate, she worked as a strategic consultant for the built environment alongside spatial planners, architects, engineers and economists for three years.
Research Summary
Current areas of research include:
Urban diversity and migration, poverty and inequality, and the role of non-stateactors in local governance.
Urban diversity and migration, poverty and inequality, and the role of non-stateactors in local governance.
Teaching Summary
MSC Social Development Practice:
From 2015-2020 Afia was a an associate lecturer for the Urban Management Programme at the Technical University Berlin.
- Social Diversity, Inequality, and Poverty
- Social Policy and Citizenship and
- Social Development in Practice
From 2015-2020 Afia was a an associate lecturer for the Urban Management Programme at the Technical University Berlin.
Appointments
DEC-2020 | Lecturer Teaching | Development Planning Unit | University College London, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2020 – 31-AUG-2021 | Lecturer Teaching | Arts and Sciences | University College London, United Kingdom |
01-AUG-2020 | Personal Tutor | Arts and Sciences | University College London, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-2019 – 30-SEP-2020 | Teaching Fellow | Development Planning Unit | University College London, United Kingdom |