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, North West 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 the social science and policy section of Elsevier’s Scientific African journal and the CEO of Adom D Publication, which 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 Young Scientist 2019. Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture is a consortium of 114 universities from 38 African countries.