Kingsley Saa-Touh Mort

Education
PhD, Social Work, University of Ghana
MPhil, Social Work, University of Ghana
BA, Social Work, University of Ghana
Certificate, International Development, University of Trent, Ontario Canada

Areas of Research Interest

• Adolescent and Youth Research
• Social Policy, Sustainable Development and Social Protection

COURSES TAUGHT CURRENTLY:

• SOWK 111: Development and Social Issues
• SOWK 112: Strategies for Social Development
• SOWK 214: Social work and social problems
• SOWK 333: Social Theories for Social Policy
• SOWK 334: Social Welfare and Social Policy
• SOWK 344: Long Vacation Fieldwork
• SOWK 488: Concurrent Fieldwork
• SOWK 616: Applied Social Work I
• SOWK 618: Applied Social Work II

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Dako-Gyeke, M., Hervie, V. M., Abbey, E., Mort, K. S. T., & Kodom, R. B. (2023). Sustainable Development Goals: Milestones, Barriers, and Opportunities for Social Work Practice in Ghana. In Androff, D., & Damanik, J. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge International Handbook of Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Routledge. (pp. 199-213). Routledge: United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003177265

Naami, A., Pumpuni, C. M., Mort, K. S. T.,Ofori, A. (2023). Rethinking social protection for persons with disabilities in Ghana. African Journal of Social Work, 13(5), 254-264 https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajsw.v13i5.4

Mort, K. S. T., Adabere, M. D. A., & Karim, A. H. (2023). A value-critical policy analysis of Ghana’s Human Trafficking Act (Act 694) as amended: Implications for Social Welfare Practice. American Journal of Social Work, 1(1), 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54647/ajsw3211001

Brempong, P.N. A., Mort, K. S. T., Abbey, E. (2023). Childcare practices of young mothers in urban slums of Accra, Ghana: A qualitative study. Ghana Social Science Journal, 20(2), 118- 136

​​​​​​​Naami, A., & Mort, K. S. T. (2023). Inclusive education in Ghana: How prepared are the teachers?. Frontiers in Education.8,1056630. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1056630

​​​​​​​Mort, K. S. T., Sulemana, A., & Kodom, R. B. (2022). Financial capability and asset-building training in Ghana through project-based learning. Global Social Welfare, 10(1), 39-47. DOI: 10.1007/s40609-022-00258-3

​​​​​​​Atinga, R. A., Yarney, L., Saa‐Touh Mort, K. S. T., Gariba, J. A., & Salifu Yendork, J. (2021). Measures and narratives of the nature causes and consequences of violent assaults and risk perception of psychiatric hospitals in Ghana: Mental Health workers’ perspectives. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(1), 1342-1353. doi/full/10.1111/inm.12878

​​​​​​​Okine, L., Dako-Gyeke, M., Baiden, P., & Mort, K. S. T. (2020). Exploring the influence of repeat pregnancy on the lives of teenage mothers. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 30(7), 863-880. https//doi10.1080/10911359.2020.1763226

ONGOING RESEARCH TOWARD PUBLICATION

• Family Impact Analysis Framework on Probation Practice in Accra, Ghana
• Sustainable Development Goals: Utilizing the Life-Cycle Approach in the Implementation of Social Protection in Ghana
• Ethnic clustering of migrant teenage mothers in Accra: Implications for developmental Social Work •
• Where are the fathers? Unveiling the struggles of migrant teenage mothers on the streets of Accra •
• Coping strategies of migrant teenage mothers from northern Ghana on the streets of Accra, Ghana •
• ‘Are you born one or born two’? Picking of Boyfriends among second-generation migrant teenage mothers as Survival Options in Ghana’s Capital City: Implications for Developmental Social Work •
• Wahala at Ghetto pits’: Child Labour in small-scale gold mining communities of Talensi/Nabdam district of the Upper East region of Ghana • Experiences of Khebab sellers in Ghana’s capital City: the new entrepreneurial drive of young migrant men from the Upper East region. •
• The lived experiences of Widows: Human rights abuses of widows in the name of performing widowhood rites for late husbands.