Dickson Adom

Dr. Dickson Adom is a researcher in the pluridisciplinary fields of Place Identity History, African Art, Art Installations, Cultural Anthropology for Biodiversity Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge for Environmental Sustainability Education, and Heritage Sites Conservation. He is a Senior Member in the Department of Educational Innovations in Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He served in an extraordinary researcher position in the School of Economic Sciences, Northwest University, South Africa from 2019 to 2022. He serves as a research fellow at the INTI International University, Malaysia. He is an international research evaluator and consultant to the Pangasinan State University, Philippines. Dr. Adom serves as an Editor for Social Science and Policy Section of Elsevier’s Scientific African Journal and the CEO of Adom D Publication that has rolled out two promising journals in the fields of Arts, Culture, Environmental Sustainability and Social Sciences.He is an expert in using traditional knowledge systems and community engagement strategies in nature conservation projects in rural communities. For his PhD thesis, he formulated a traditional biodiversity strategy for Ghana to augment the conventional biodiversity strategy by addressing the dearth of a community-based conservation strategy that reflects the place identity, cosmology, and life experiences of the Ghanaian people. Dr. Adom was recognised as the RUFORUM (The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture), established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 114 universities from 38 African countries) Young Scientist 2019, a covetous award of $2000, a plaque and citation for honouring young and dynamic scientists in Africa who are extremely promising for their scientific achievements in this benchmark work. Link: https://ruforum.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/three-3-winners-of-the-ruforum-young-scientists-award-2019-announced/  His Post Doctoral research scholarship grant through a collaboration of ACCESS-KNUST and the University of Liepzig, Germany offered capacity-building opportunities in cultural and traditional craft enterprises among host communities in Protected Areas in Ghana to boost ecotourism development. This was a community engagement study to make community members take ownership of PA systems in their regions while supporting conservation interests. Link to the published work:http://www.cujucr.com/downloads/Individual%20Articles/23/vol%2023%20Dickson%20Adom%20et%20al.pdf  Recently, Dr. Adom received funding of 2500 British Pounds from BGCI to embark on a pilot study aimed at developing an Indigenous Knowledge Inspired Pedagogical Model for teaching elementary school students native tree species in Ghana. The model explored the use of ethnobotanical knowledge, folk songs, myths, cosmological beliefs, proverbs, etc. about the native tree species in driving their education. Link to the project: https://www.bgci.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ESBIK-Pedagogical-Model_BGCI-Report_DA_YH-B.pdf Now, he has received funding of 10000 British Pounds from the Gower Street Foundation in the UK to expand the project in four other regions in Ghana. In his institution, Dr. Adom was honored in 2021 with the Most Promising Senior Member (1st Runner Up) award and the Most Published Researcher 2022 in the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. For his scholarly and academically rigorous peer review activities for top-ranked publishers and journals such as PLos ONE, SAGE Open, Taylor and Francis (African Identities), Springer, Elsevier, and many others, he received the 1% Global Top Reviewer  Award from Publons, New Zealand in 2018. He is a certified Publons Academy mentor with over 100 research publications to his credit.