Panellists Professor Akua Opokua Britwum
Akua Opokua Britwum is an Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She holds a Doctorate from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, her first and second degrees were obtained from the University of Ghana, Legon in addition she has a postgraduate certificate in Education from the University of Cape Coast. She previously served as the Director of the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation at the University of Cape Coast. She has been associated with the universities of Kassel in Germany where held the Ela Bhatt-Guest Professor Chair with the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Johannesburg, South Africa as Senior Research Associate. She was also the Convenor, Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana. Other positions she has held include an associate fellow of Global Labour University. Prof. Britwum serves as reviewer for several journals and is currently on Editorial Boards of the Global Labour Journal and Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences and an advisory board member of International Review of Social History. Her teaching, research and publication cover gender and labour studies, development philosophy and theory, union democracy, as well as women in the informal economy. Her most recent publication is: Britwum, A. O. (2022). Post-independence development planning in Ghana and Tanzania: Agriculture, women and Nation-building. Africa Development, XLVII (1), 105-134. Kevin Coutinho Kevin is an equalities practitioner within higher education, having worked at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Pro-Director EDI), University College London (Athena SWAN and Gender Equality Policy Manager), University of Oxford (Head of EDI), Birkbeck (HR Strategy Partner) and the University of Cambridge (E&D Consultant). He is also the Vice-Chair of the Higher Education Race Action Group (HERAG), a sector wide body that promotes race equality, and chairs Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charter panels for Advance HE. Kevin is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Diversity and Inclusion Committee and formerly co-chaired the League of European Research Universities Gender Working Group. He is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Windsor Fellowship (www.windsor-fellowship.org), a race equality and diversity charity that promotes education, citizenship and employability and a member of council for the British Science Association and the Linnean Society of London.
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