Career
In the past decade,Sefa-Nyarko's research agenda has focused on understanding and contributing to interdisciplinary debates on peace and security,methodological innovation,critical development studies on natural resource governance,and the social imperatives of the energy transitions to net-zero carbon emissions.
His research findings,informed by innovative mixed methodologies and with both primary and secondary sources,have been published in high-ranking journals such as Energy Research &Social Sciences and Third World Quarterly,and have been translated for the wider public and policymakers through short pieces and media interviews. One of the impactful academic outputs (Sefa-Nyarko,2020) won the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Researcher Award for best research output at La Trobe University.
Sefa-Nyarko's research has gained recognition for policy relevance. Following the publication of his paper on the politics of Ghana’s Energy Transitions framework (Sefa-Nyarko,2024),he contributed to a policy discourse on ‘Measuring Affordability and the Social Impacts of Clean Energy Transitions’at a global platform at the International Energy Agency in March 2024 in Paris. His research and publication philosophy are to share findings through single authored academic and non-academic outputs,but also to collaborate with other scholars,especially early career and established scholars and those from various other genders or perspectives,to co-create knowledge products that have the power to contribute to social and political change around climate and resource governance.
Sefa-Nyarko has spent part of his work in developing countries as a practitioner with special interests in monitoring and evaluation,and a significant part of his research has attracted funding from global agencies in both academic and non-academic projects.
Selected publications
Articles
Sefa-Nyarko,C. (2024). Ghana's National Energy Transition Framework:Domestic aspirations and mistrust in international relations complicate ‘justice and equity’. Energy Research &Social Science,110,103465. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103465
Sefa-Nyarko,C. (2024). The crisis of leadership in minerals governance in Ghana:Could process leadership fill the void? The Extractive Industries and Society,18,101470. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101470
Sefa-Nyarko,C.,Agbe,E.,Afram,A.,Hodor,R.,Ofori-Davis,L.,Bediako,A.,&Owusu,E. A. (2024). Unpacking locally led research and evaluation through the lens of collaborative autoethnography. African Evaluation Journal;Vol 12,No 2 (2024),12(2),1-14. https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v12i2.730
Sefa-Nyarko,C. (2022). Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic:on the checks and balances between the state and society. Third World Quarterly,1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2079487. [Impact Factor:2.32]
Sefa-Nyarko,C.,Okafor-Yarwood,I.,&Boadu,E. S. (2021). Petroleum revenue management in Ghana:How does the right to information law promote transparency,accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount? The Extractive Industries and Society,8(3),100957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100957. [Impact Factor:3.8]
Institutional Design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic:On the checks and balances between the state and society,Third World Quarterly,48(8),2006-2224. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2079487
The liminality of institutional design of petroleum governance in Ghana:Political will,political settlements and contentions as defining factors,Energy Research &Social Science,92,102799. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102799
Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in Ghana:Colonial Legacies and the Constitution as Determinants,Critical Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0896920520943263
Civil War in South Sudan:Is It a Reflection of Historical Secessionist and Natural Resource Wars in “Greater Sudan”?,African Security,vol. 9,no. 3,pp. 188-210
Competing Narratives of Post-independence Violence in Ghanaian Social Studies Textbooks,1987 to 2010,In D. Bentrovato,K. V. Korostelina,M. Schulze "History Can Bite",pp. 61-84
History Production after undemocratic regime change:The impact of competing narratives of Ghana’s post-independence violence on political stability,Strife Journal,Issue 5,pp. 20-27,http://www.strifeblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/03-clement-sefa-nyarko.pdf
