Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh’s research has, over the last 17 years, explored: constructions of childhoods; the intersections between dominant children’s rights and social and cultural norms; parent-child relations; and the impact of historical developments on constructions of childhood and child rearing practices. Much of this work was conducted in Ghana and Nigeria and was funded by external bodies. In particular, out of the 11 research and networking projects she has managed as Principal Investigator, nine have been funded by external funders. In more recent years one strand of her research has come to centre around problematising the binary between the Global North and the Global South and as part of that, she has sought to illuminate more holistic portrayals of childhoods in African contexts, in particular, by situating these within the context of both history and globalisation. In doing this, she has been motivated by a desire to challenge one-dimensional portrayals of the continent. Many of the findings from her research have been published. She is a series editor for the Palgrave Macmillan Study of Childhood and Youth Series and serves on the editorial boards of: Childhood, Children & Society, Sociedad e Infancias, Third World Quarterly and the Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies.