Paul Issahaku is a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.
He has a bachelor’s degree from University of Ghana and a MSW degree from Columbia University. Paul’s scholarly interests include family welfare, issues of domestic violence and violence against women, child welfare, community development, organizational management, and international social work. Paul’s proposed doctoral dissertation is titled ‘Male partner violence against women in northern Ghana: its dimensions and health policy implications’. He is currently a research assistant to Dr. Saini on a Campbell collaboration systematic review project in Child Protection Mediation Research. Paul has also worked with Dr. Hardy Cox on a research project titled ‘Social Work Education in Canada’.
Paul has six years of practice experience in community development in northern Ghana. He also has internship experience with UNICEF, New York, in program planning and policy development, and with Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn, New York, in case management. Paul has published a chapter entitled ‘Decolonizing the Euro-American public education system: a transgressive revisiting of Fanon’ in a book, Fanon and the counterinsurgency of education, edited by Professor G. Dei of OISE.