Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei
Director for Research and Innovations
Biography
Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei is a Full Professor of School of Social Work and a Carnegie Diasporan Fellow and a Visiting Scholar to Department of Social Work of the University of Ghana. He has previously held senior leadership roles as Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Research) and Interim Dean of the School of Social Work at Memorial University.
Paul received his undergraduate degree in Social Work from the University of Ghana, and his Master and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto specializing in Social Justice Education. Dr. Adjei’s teaching and research draw on his African Indigeneity as rich cultural sources of knowledge to (re)imagine new futures for social work education.
He has secured several funding and published over 50-refereed essays in scholarly journals and book chapters as well as four book publications. He has presented over 100 papers at national and international conferences. His contributions have been recognized through numerous honours, including the 2022 Most Inspiring Immigrants Award in Atlantic Canada, the 2023 Black Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2024 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship.