Prof Seth Oppong
- Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), University of Ghana, Legon
- Master of Philosophy (Psychology) University of Ghana, Legon
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology with Political Science (First Class Honours with FCGPA of 3.86/4), University of Ghana, Legon
Seth is a very well-known African scholar on indigenous psychology. In addition to his role at UB as a Professor, he serves as a Research Associate at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was an international visiting research scholar to North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and a Carnegie Scholar at University of Ghana. He has served as an external thesis examiner for UCT, UKZN, UNISA, Rhodes University, and University of Cape Coast (UCC) as well as a promotion assessor for University of Ghana and UCC. He is a member of the African Union CESA-ECED Knowledge Generation Core Working Group, AfECN Regional Research Technical Team, and Advisory Board member of Mindfully LLC as well as Early Childhood Network-Ghana. He has proposed the following: 1) Psychological Theoretics, 2) model of valued human cognitive abilities, 3) risk chain process model, 4) integrated model of human actions and conditions, 5) epistemological allyship, and 6) bio-cultural theory of becoming a person. He has also co-authored a practical resource on how to enhance cultural relevance of early childhood development interventions in Africa. He created the Characterological Interpersonal Coping Styles Diagnostics. He is best known for his work on history, critical, cultural, and indigenous/African psychology; epistemological violence; Anton W. Amo; and decolonising early child development in Africa. Email addresses: Oppongs@ub.ac.bw; Seth.Oppong@wits.ac.za
- History and philosophy of psychology
- Organisational psychology
- Human factors in the work environment
- Psychometrics
- Research project supervision
- Cognition and learning
- Psychology of labour relations
- Training and development
- Occupational health psychology, traffic psychology
- Psychological testing
- History of psychology
- Theoretical and philosophical psychology
- Meta-science with respect to psychological science
- Indigenous and African psychology
- Decolonising early childhood development programming
He is open to thesis supervision and examination in the following areas:
- Organisational psychology topics
- Management, OB, OD, and HRM topics
- Occupational health psychology topics
- Cross-cultural studies
- Psychometrics
- Applied psychology excluding clinical and counselling psychology topics
- Intervention studies and translational research
- Ethics and professional competence
- Behavioural health research
- Decolonisation of early childhood development