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Ghana, Türkiye

Biography

Michael is a research scientist with the CSIR-Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI), a public research organization in Ghana. He is particularly interested in crime geography, geographic information systems (GIS), urban studies, migration studies, and the postcolonial geographies of Africa.
Michael joined CSIR-INSTI in June 2021 after completing his PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy. Michael’s doctoral thesis focused on the containerization of urban space where he epistemologically deconstructed containerization from global political economy to critical urban studies. During his doctoral studies, he became a visiting research scholar at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and HTW Berlin- University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
In 2022, Michael collaborated with Prof. Lukasz Stanek (Taubman College, University of Michigan) on an International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) funded project called “Asutsuare Rebound”. The project studied the reuse, reappropriation, and re-valorisation of modernist planning in Asutsuare, a rural community in Ghana.
Michael reviewed manuscripts for several journals, including the Journal of Criminology, Quaestiones Geographicae, and Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society.
Michael is an alumnus of Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta Turkey in 2017, where he pursued an M.A. in Geography. Michael was also an Erasmus Mundus exchange student at the Pedagogical University of Krakow in Poland, where he researched the geographies of industrial transformation in postsocialist countries. Michael has a B.A. in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, Legon in 2013. Between 2014 and 2015, Michael served as a research assistant with the Centre for Migration Studies of the University of Ghana.

Activities

Employment (5)

Institute for Scientific and Technological Information: Accra, GH

2021-06-02 to present | Research Scientist
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Universita' di Milano Bicocca: Milano, Lombardia, IT

2017-09-12 to 2021-02-24 | Dottorandi (DIPARTIMENTO DI SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE)
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University of Milano Bicocca - IRIS

University of Ghana: Accra, GH

2013-09-16 to 2014-09-30 | Research Assistant (Center for Migration Studies)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Ghana Health Service: Aflao, Volta Region, GH

2012-05-01 to 2012-08-29 | Research Assistant (Public Health)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen: Accra, GH

2009-07-01 to 2009-07-31 | Database Assistant
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Milano-Bicocca: Milan, IT

2017-11-01 to 2021-02-24 | PhD in Urban Studies (Sociology and Social Research)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Süleyman Demirel University: Isparta, TR

2015-10-03 to 2017-06-09 | MA in Geography (Department of Geography)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

University of Ghana: Accra, GH

2009-08-06 to 2013-05-26 | BA in Geography and Resource Development (Department of Geography and Resource Development)
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Professional activities (3)

HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences: Berlin, DE

2019-06-01 to 2019-08-31 | Visiting PhD Student (Department of Business and Law)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

University of Lausanne: Lausanne, CH

2018-10 to 2018-12 | Visiting PhD Student ( Institute of Geography and Sustainability)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Pedagogical University of Kraków: Krakow, PL

2016-10-01 to 2016-12-31 | Erasmus Mundus Exchange Student
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Funding (2)

ACCELERATIONG IMPACTS OF CGIAR CLIMATE RESEARCH FOR AFRICA (AICCRA)' CSA MAPPING IN GHANA

2023-09 to 2023-12 | Grant
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Santiago de Cali, CO)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Asutsuare Rebound

2022-06 to 2022-09 | Grant
International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) (Rotterdam, NL)
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Michael Gameli Dziwornu

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for European journal on criminal policy and research. (1)