Alhassan Yakubu Alhassan

Lecturer

Department of Global Development and Planning

Email: alhassan.y.alhassan@uia.no
Phone: +47 38141834
Mobile phone: +4740970552

Office H3006 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

CeDiT: Centre for digital transformation

Areas of responsibility

I am a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Work and the Centre for Digital Transformation at the University of Agder, Norway. I hold a Masters in Sociology from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Masters in Global Development and Planning from the University of Agder. Prior to the position as a PhD Research Fellow, I worked as Teaching Assistant at the University of Saskatchewan. I have also worked as an online tutor at the Department of Global Development and Planning and a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana where I obtained my BA(Hons) Sociology and Social Work.

Research

Sustainable Urban Development

Rural urban migration

Environment and Development

Population and development

Social Network Analysis

Sociology of food and agriculture

Academic interests

I have methodological expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods with special emphasis on Computational Social Science Methods and Social Network Analysis.

Selected publications

Ziglioli, G., & Alhassan, A. Y. (2022). Nethnography and Social Network Analysis for Studying Online Social Space. In P. Gabriella & P. Angela Delli (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (pp. 227-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch015

Alhassan, A. Y., Abdul-rahim, A., & Akaabre, P. B. (2016). Knowledge, Awareness and Perceptions of Females on Clandestine Abortion in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana. European Scientific Journal, 12(12), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n12p95.

Abdulai, A.-R., Adam, A.-w. M., & Alhassan, A. Y. (2016). Indigenous industries in the face of growing competition in textile markets: a study of smock/fugu industry in tamale metropolis, Northern Ghana. International Journal of Development Research, 6(2), 6826-6833. https://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/issue-pdf/4781.pdf.

Abdulai, A.-R., Tundyiridam, R., & Alhassan, A. Y. (2016). Mechanisms and Strategies for Mobilisation of Property Rates in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of Ghana. Public Policy and Administration Research, 6(6), 113-123. http://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/PPAR/article/view/31420/32260.

Master Theses

Alhassan, A. Y. (2019). Competing Discourses of Sustainability in African Agriculture: A Case Study of the Sustainable Agriculture Discourse of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. [Master’s Thesis, University of Saskatchewan]. https://harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/12472.

Alhassan, A. Y. (2017). Rural-urban migrants and urban employment in Ghana: A case study of rural migrants from Northern Region to Kumasi. [Universitetet i Agder; University of Agder] https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/2459938.

Tuition

UT-204 The political ecology of global environmental challenges (Course Coordinator)

UT 502 Planning for Local and Regional Development

ME 526 Master Thesis Seminar in Development Management

UT 403 Global environment issues - a political ecology perspective

Alhassan, Alhassan Yakubu & Ruser, Alexander (2023). Knowledge Transfer. In Philipp, Thorsten & Schmohl, Tobias (Ed.), Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783839463475. p. 215–224. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In modern “knowledge societies” (Stehr 1994), knowledge is increasingly depicted as essential for economic growth and social and political inclusion. Consequentially, training and research facilities such as schools and universities become crucial determinants for a society’s ability to remain competitive and develop knowledge-based and knowledge-driven economies. Likewise, more recent research has identified knowledge as an essential driving force of development while pointing out that low-income countries in the Global South, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, struggle to put their domestic universities in a position to contribute to national development (Kruss et al. 2012). This apparent failure of transferring knowledge from the laboratories, academic hallways, and lecture theatres to broader society cannot be reduced to a lack of resources but often indicates a more general mismatch between academia and society (Kruss et al. 2012, 523–24), a lack of interaction or understanding between scientific and non-scientific communities.
Ziglioli, Gloria & Alhassan, Alhassan Yakubu (2022). Nethnography and Social Network Analysis for Studying Online Social Space. In Punziano, Gabriella & Paoli, Angela Delli (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society. IGI Global. ISSN 1-7998-8474-0. p. 227–247. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This chapter contributes to the current methodological debate on digital, internet-based studies in social research. Based upon an introductive analysis of the research's perspectives, trajectories, and stages that have brought the online social spaces into social research, the chapter focuses on the advantages of combining quanti-quali approaches for approaching online complexity. In particular, the authors offer a deep discussion concerning the value, the methodological, and ethical challenges of netnography and social network analysis (SNA) methods for inquiring online social research by proposing a possible emerging methodological framework guiding further empirical studies.

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Alhassan, Alhassan Yakubu (2024). Data:Social networks among decision making actors in an urban development in a Norwegian Municipality.

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