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Kwabena Frimpong-Manso

Kwabena Frimpong-Manso
Senior Lecturer
kfrimpong-manso@ug.edu.gh
00233243908246

Since joining the University of Ghana faculty in 2006, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervised undergraduate research projects and postgraduate dissertations/theses. Additionally, he has served as an external supervisor and assessor for post-graduate dissertations and theses in Ghana and abroad. His research focuses on children and young people in out-of-home care. His research focuses on children and adolescents in residential and foster care, as well as young people leaving care or transitioning to adulthood. He also researches child-care reform in Africa and the Global South. Kwabena has conducted cross-country research in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Uganda, in addition to Ghana. Over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters have been published by Kwabena. He has published articles in leading social work journals such as Children and Youth Services Review, Children and Society, Child and Family Social Work, Child Adolescent Social Work, and Emerging Adulthood. In the past, he has presented papers at international conferences. Kwabena is a member of the Editorial Board of Children and Youth Services Review. He has received international competitive research grants (both as PI and CO-I). He is a registered social worker with the Health and Social Care Council, UK, a member of the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC), and a founding member of the Africa Network of Care Leaving Researchers (ANCR). Kwabena has previously served on a number of university Boards and Committees, including the Examiners and Academic Board. He is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Social Work at the University of Johannesburg. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Malmo and Jönköping University.

Research Interests

  • Child protection
  • Care-leaving
  • Foster and residential care for children
  • Child care reform
  • Community development

Education/Academic Qualification

  • PhD Social Work (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  • MPhil Social Work (University of Ghana)
  • MSc International Social Work (Gothenburg University)
  • BA Social Work (University of Ghana),
  • Associate Member Chartered Institute of Marketing

Teaching

  • History of Social Work
  • Social Work and Social Problems
  • Working with groups
  • Working with Older People
  • Working with people in need of Protection
  • Social Issues in Contemporary Ghana

 

Journal Publications

  • Frimpong-Manso, K., Bukuluki, P., Addy, T., Obeng, J., & Kato, F. (2022). Pregnancy and parenting experiences of care-experienced youth in Ghana and Uganda. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-022-00829-5

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K., Agbadi, P., & Deliege, A. (2022). Factors associated with the family reintegration stability for children with a residential care experience in Ghana. Global Studies of Childhood, 204361062210776. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106221077699

 

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2021). Family support services in the context of child care reform: Perspectives of Ghanaian social workers. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 38(2), 157-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-020-00729-6

 

 

 

  • Adomako, E., Frimpong-Manso, K., Munemo, P., Duah, H., & Agbadi, P. (2021). The relationship between accurate knowledge on HIV/AIDS transmission and adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: A further analyses of the 2017 multiple cluster indicator survey. Heliyon, 7(2), e06265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06265

 

  • Tambala-Kaliati, T., Adomako, E., & Frimpong-Manso, K. (2021). Living with albinism in an African community: exploring the challenges of persons with albinism in Lilongwe District, Malawi. Heliyon, 7(5), e07034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07034

 

  • Owusu, L., & Frimpong-Manso, K. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 on children from poor families in Ghana and the role of welfare institutions. Journal of Children's Services, 15(4), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcs-07-2020-0033

 

  • Dey, N., Dziwornu, E., Frimpong-Manso, K., Duah, H., & Agbadi, P. (2020). Correlates of child functional difficulties status in Ghana: A further analysis of the 2017/18 multiple indicator cluster survey. Heliyon, 6(12), e05727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05727
  • Frimpong-Manso, K., Tagoe, I., & Mawutor, S.M. (2020). Experiences of formal foster care parents in Ghana: Experiences and challenges. South African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.25159/2415-5829/6529

 

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K., Deliege, A., Wilson, T., & Norman, Y. (2019). Residential childcare in Ghana: Analysing current trends and drivers. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 18(2), 1-13.

 

  • Frimpong‐Manso, K., & Bugyei, A. (2018). The challenges facing children reunified with their families from an orphanage in Ghana. Children & Society, 33(4), 363-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12314

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2018). Stories of care leaving: The experiences of a group of resilient young adults on their journey to interdependent living in Ghana. Emerging Adulthood, 8(1), 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696818807114

 

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2015). Employment, education and housing outcomes for care leavers from a children’s village in Ghana. Swiss Social Work Journal/Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Soziale Arbeit, 16(1), 62-75. http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-832438

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2015). The social support networks of care leavers from a children's village in Ghana: formal and informal supports. Child & Family Social Work, 22(1), 195-202.   

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2014). From walls to homes: Childcare reform and de-institutionalisation in Ghana. International Journal of Social Welfare, 23(4), 402-409.

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2014). Child welfare in Ghana: The past, present and future. Journal of Educational and Social Research, 4(5), 412-420.

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K (2012). Aftercare support for young people making their transition from SOS Children’s Village, Ghana. Developing Practice: The Child, Youth & Family Work Journal, 32, 64-76.

 

Book Chapters

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2023). Residential care leaving in the global south: A review of the current literature. In S. Mozes & M. Israelashvili (Eds.,) Youth without family to lean on: Global challenges and local interventions. London: Routledge.

 

  • Bukuluki, P., Frimpong-Manso, K., & Kato, F. (2021). Care leavers' experiences of COVID-19 in Uganda and Ghana: Implications for their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. In A. A. Moustafa (Ed.). In Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 (pp. 19-36). London: Academic Press.

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K., & Kpei Mawudoku, A. (2017). Social work practice in child and family welfare in Ghana. In M. Gray, the Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa (1st ed., pp. 96-107). Routledge.

 

  • Frimpong-Manso, K. (2014). The effect of an aftercare service on outcomes of care leavers. In C. Sottie, M. Dako-Gyeke & C.J. Walls, Social Work in a Changing World: Issues and Prospects (1st ed., pp. 44-57). Woeli.