Dr Emma Kwegyir-Afful PhD, MSc, PgCert, RM, RN (FGNM)

Dr Kwegyir-Afful (nee Ntiri) joined the University of Salford, Manchester in 2019 as a Lecturer in Adult Nursing. Her current role includes leading Research Methods Module at Master’s Level and teaching Nursing in Global Health Context, Evidence-Based Nursing Practice, Research Methods across BSc and MSc Nursing degree programs. She also supervises PhD and Master's students’ research.

Prior to this post, Emma had worked as a University Teacher and a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. Through her initiative, there is an ongoing staff and student exchange programme between the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Ghana and the Department of Nursing Science at University of Eastern Finland through an European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme.

Between 1995 and 2010, Emma worked in Ghana in various capacities as a Nurse Educator at the Public Health Nurses’ School at Korle-Bu in Accra and as a nurse-midwife at the Kaneshie Polyclinic in Accra, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and Juabeng Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Emma obtained a First-Class Honours in Nursing with Psychology from the University of Ghana. She has a second degree in Health and Social Care from the Jyvaskyla University of Applied Sciences in Finland and a Post-graduate certificate in Education from the same institution. She completed both her MSc and PhD in Public Health from the University of Eastern Finland.

Her research interest is to reduce excessive workload among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim to reduce adverse birth outcomes. This interest is largely influenced by Emma’s experience as a practicing nurse-midwife in the country over the years and observation of the suffering of some Ghanaian women and their babies as a result of adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth and low birthweight. Following on this, Emma has collaborated with other international researchers to develop the lift-less intervention protocol which has since been published.

Emma is a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives.

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