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Dr Obed Adonteng-Kissi

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6163043138
Email: o.adontengkissi@ecu.edu.au
Campus: South West  
Room: BU5.130A  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9324-7138

Obed is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Arts and Humanities

Current teaching

  • SWK2108 - Addictions and Practice
  • SWK2010 - Theory and Practice for Child Protection
  • SWK3121 - Social Work Theory and Practice 2: A focus on Theories
  • SWK5224 - Social Work Honours Research Design

Background

A strong focus of Obed Adonteng-Kissi’s current work has been on human rights perspective in social work practice with immigrants in Australia; the rights of the child vis-à-vis child labour; developmental impact of rural and communal conflicts; enhancing economic, social and environmental outcomes for land-connected people impacted by mining. The strength of his research stems from direct engagement with rural and urban populations; stakeholders; the mining industry; mine-affected communities.

Professional associations

  • 2024 - Australian Association of Social Workers, AASW (Member)

Research areas and interests

  • Child welfare
  • Child protection
  • Community development
  • Migrants' mental health

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University, 2019.
  • Master of Philosophy, Ghana, 2010.
  • Bachelor of Education with Second Class Honours, Ghana, 1999.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2024). Child Labour in Rural and Urban Ghana: Stakeholders and Parental Perceptions of Working Children and Culture-Appropriate Assessment. The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact (964). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003241492.

Journal Articles

  • Botchway-Commey, EN., Adonteng-Kissi, O., Meribe, N., Chisanga, D., Moustafa, AA., Tembo, A., Baffour, FD., Gatwiri, K., Doyle, AK., Mwanri, L., Levi Osuagwu, U. (2024). Mental health and mental health help-seeking behaviors among first-generation voluntary African migrants: A systematic review. PLoS One, 19(3), Article number e0298634. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298634.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2023). Parental Perceptions of the Nature of Child Labour in Rural and Urban Ghana: Cultural Versus Economic Necessity. Child Care in Practice, 29(2), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2020.1868407.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2023). Cultural Responsiveness in Child Protection: Stakeholders and Parental Perceptions of Working Children and Culture-appropriate Assessment in Ghana. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(1), 118–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac123.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2023). Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana. Social Policy and Society, 2023(article in press), pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000690.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2022). Potential tension between children’s engagement in work and the rights of the child: resolving the conflict using margin of appreciation doctrine. The International Journal of Human Rights, 26(6), 978-1003. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1994401.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2021). Exploring the Tension between the Rights of the Child and Parental Rights: Voices from Ghana. Human Rights in the Contemporary World (39-54). IntecOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87332.

Journal Articles

  • Meribe, N., Ayentimi, D., Oke, B., Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2021). Exploring firm-community level trust in rural Africa through the lens of oil companies’ corporate social responsibilities. Society and Business Review, 16(3), 357-373. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-04-2020-0059.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O., Oke, B., Meribe, N., Ayentimi, D. (2021). Environmental impact of oil and gas exploration on livelihoods in Nigeria’s Eastern Obolo: Exploring the people's rights to fair compensation. Forum for Development Studies, 48(3), 539-570. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2021.1947364.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2021). Child Labour Versus Realising Children’s Right to Provision, Protection, and Participation in Ghana. Australian Social Work, 74(4), 464-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2020.1742363.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Adonteng-Kissi, O., Adonteng-Kissi, B., Kamal Jibril, M., Kwesi Osei, S. (2020). Living in protracted communal conflict: Socioeconomic trends and household poverty in Ghana's Yendi area. Development Policy Review, 38(3), 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12409.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2020). Parental evidence of impact of policy on worst forms of child labour in rural and urban Ghana. Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare, 35(3), 239 - 260. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535996.
  • Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2020). Potential conflict between the rights of the child and parental expectations in traditional child-rearing patterns: Resolving the tension. Children and Youth Services Review, 109(February 2020), article number 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104752.

2019

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2018

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2017

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