Research areas
- Crime: delinquency, social context of crime; criminal administration;
- Cross cutting issues: Population, Migration, and development; Gender, environment, health and culture; ethnicity and ethnic relations;
- Development: Development induced displacement,social structure and change; social movements; community participation; social advocacy, counseling; traditional social organizations;
- Education: Quality, equity, relevance, practice; globalization and education
- Health: Social definition and determinants; health seeking behavior; health policy analysis; spiritpossession;
- Policy: Social policy; Policy formulation and analysis;
- Culture: change and development; cultural imperialism; media and culture; indigenous knowledge;
- Social issues: job satisfaction; Bureaucracy, inter-ethnic and inter religious relations
- Social problems: begging, streetism, ethnic conflicts; crime; human trafficking, poverty; refuge; unemployment; social inequalities; evil eye; food (in)security;
- Vulnerable groups: elderly, children, females, people with disabilities, minority groups