Ama de-Graft Aikins
Ama de-Graft Aikins is a British-Ghanaian Social Psychologist who is currently a British Academy Global Professor at University College London's Institute of Advanced Studies. Her research focuses primarily on the psychosocial and structural drivers of Africa's chronic non-communicable disease burden, but she also has interests in arts and health, and the history of psychology in Africa and its intersections with critical theory and African Studies. She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Ghana. In 2015, she became the first female full professor of psychology at the University of Ghana, where she has a tenured position. Early life and education Ama de-Graft Aikins was born in London to Ghanaian parents. She had her secondary school education at Wesley Girls High School, Cape Coast, Ghana and South Thames College, London. After a first degree in pharmacology at the University of Manchester, she switched disciplines and completed a conversion master's degree in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.She received her doctorate degree (PhD) in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge. Research Ama de-Graft