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Louis Kusi Frimpong

PhD.

Position:
Lecturer

Department:

Department of Geography and Earth Science

Google Scholar Account:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0syWuRMAAAAJ&hl=en

Office Location:

Lecture Hall Complex, Third Floor

Phone No:

+233207914761

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I am an urban geographer who is interested in urban sustainability issues. I obtained my PhD from the University of Ghana in 2020. I am passionate about teaching and research, and also mentoring young people who aspire to have a career in academia

1. Safety and security in urban neighbourhoods
2. Urban planning and sustainable urban development
3. Community development and (re)vitalization
4. Lived experiences of informal settlements dwellers
5. Development planning ”

After the war and Ebola: community-based revitalisation of urban neighbourhoods in Freetown.

Ghana Geographers Association

Grant Won

Honours & Awards

2020 to present- Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya.

2018 to 2020- Research assistant at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon.

2016 to 2017- Graduate assistant at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon.

2013 to 2016- Research assistant at the Department of Geography and Resource Development.

Registration for MPhil and PhD programmes under the IDRC and DFID funded Urban Crime and Poverty Nexus Project between 2013 and 2016.

2014 Professor George Benneh prize for the best MPhil student from the Department of Geography and Resource Development.

2018 Provost Publications Award (Doctoral category). The award is based on the Article “Geography of fear of crime: Examining intra-urban differentials in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Ghana” published in the Ghana Journal of Geography, 8(1): 81-104 (2016).

Final year PhD scholarship from the University of Ghana through the Building a new generation of Academics in Africa BANGA-Africa project with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This is a one year award from September 2018 to September 2019.