The researcher investigates the interplay between social media usage and mental health outcomes within specific online communities, examining how their influence manifests both at macro-level community levels and micro-level psychological factors that contribute to anxiety and depression.
Faculty Biography
Prof Alexander Yao Segbefia is an Associate Professor and former Head, Department of Geography and Rural Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is passionate about Mobility challenges and Transportation Issues in Urban and Rural settings in Ghana; the role of women in rural governance, and the effects of microcredit on women’s empowerment.Professor Segbefia is passionate about Policy Relevant Research Opportunities. Currently, he is working on The effects of COVID-19 on Transportation and Tourism Livelihoods. He has won a grant from the Association of African Universities (AAU) titled “Microfinance for Poverty Reduction among Rural Women in Africa: Investigating Contextual Determinants of Success and Failure in Ghana and Kenya”; He was a Work Package Leader in a collaborative DANIDA Funded Project in which he conducts sustainability and socio economic impact assessments of technology implementation in the “Seaweed Bio-refinery in Ghana” project. Also, he led a study into Rural Non-Farm Activities and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in the Krachi East District of the Volta region of Ghana.Prof. Alex Segbefia’s PhD research focused on developing a Pro-Poor Tourism Strategy for Poverty Reduction using selected Handicrafts in the Ashanti region. He was a member of the international research team working on the collaborative project “The Changing Faces of Poverty in Ghana”, funded by NUFU.Prof Segbefia believes that if it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing it well.
Department of Geography & Rural Development
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology