Francisca Anita Adom-Opare

Francisca Anita Adom-Opare is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her research seeks to examine the silences in development using disability and disability inclusion norms within an intersectional framework - exploring perception, operationalization and future of disability norms in development. Her research interests include:

• Disability
• Disability inclusion
• Gender
• Gender mainstreaming
• Mixed-methods
• Data disaggregation
• Intersectionality
• African feminism
• Development work
• Ghana
• West Africa.

Her current and notable publications include:

• Upcoming Event: Convenor of Panel 63: Rethinking Disability Connection and Agency for Development, Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference 2023
• Adom-Opare, F.A. (2022). Cultural Etiologies of Disability in Ghana: A Case of Food Taboos in Pregnancy Review of Disability Studies (RDS) Vol. 18 No. 1 & 2
• Adom-Opare, F.A. (2021). "Visible yet invisible: Counting albinism and kyphosis in Sub-Saharan African censuses" [Blog Post]
• Adom-Opare, F.A. (2021). "Aetiological perspectives of disability in Ghana: A case of food taboos in pregnancy" [Workshop Presentation]