Dominic Edem Hotor

Dominic Edem Hotor is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana. His research interests range from urban transportation, urban mobility, accessibility among persons with disability and governance in Ghana. His doctoral research, which is ready for submission, is titled “Accessibility and Use of Public Transport Services by Persons with Disabilities in Ghana.” This research is part of a three-year (2020-2023) research project on “Life Course Transitions and Trajectories of Persons with Disabilities in West African Societies” (LICOT-WASO). The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and implemented by the Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Social Services (ZPE), University of Siegen (Germany) & Department of Social Work at the University of Ghana. Before this, Dominic researched on “The use of public transport services by residents of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area” for his Mphil degree and subsequently obtained a Certificate in Logistics and Transport from the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT-UK). He was a student leader, acting as the Vice President of the Graduate Students Association at the University of Ghana.

Currently, Dominic is employed as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Geography & Resource Development at the University of Ghana where he teaches and assesses undergraduate students. He had previously worked as a Senior Operations Officer at Intercity STC Coaches Limited.

Since 2012, he has been an active researcher, assisting with field data collection and data analysis, as well as coordinating and executing medium to large-scale research projects, including Cycling in Accra (funded by U. of Chicago and the Wellcome Trust, UK); Transport and accessibility in Accra and Kumasi (funded by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the emergent of world-class transport infrastructures: urban visions and infrastructural spaces in African cities (funded by Stockholm University). The rest are the E-Mobility policy framework and a roadmap for Ghana (funded by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and Innovative transport services in Africa (funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s seed grant to the University of Ghana). Dominic is versatile in the use of data collection and management toolkits like Kobo Collect Toolbox and scientific analysis tools such as ArcGIS, SPSS and NVivo.