Dr. Akosua K. Darkwah is the Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Ghana. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and has expertise in qualitative research methods, including innovative approaches such as the river of life approach. Her research interests focus on both the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure women’s work in Ghana as well as the gendered ways in which migration reconfigures households. She dedicates her time to exploring how global economic policies and practices reconfigure Ghanaian women’s work. Over the last two decades, she has studied market traders, domestic workers, factory workers, farmers, food system actors, and women in politics. Her interest in gender issues has led to her taking on administrative roles as the Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana (2012-2016), as well as serving as a Steering Committee Member and now Convenor of the Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT), Ghana, the country’s leading women’s rights organisation. She was a member of the second and third phases of the Migrating out of Poverty (MOOP) research project, which the University of Sussex ran. She is a member of the Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association, the Ghana Studies Association, the African Studies Association (USA), the International Sociological Association, and a lifetime member of the African Studies Association, Africa. She currently serves as editor for African Studies Review and Feminist Africa.