Leisure or livelihood: Team

Joana Salifu Yendork (Ph.D.) is a clinical and child developmental psychologist who obtained her doctoral degree in Psychology from Stellenbosch University. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. Her areas of research interest are child and adolescent mental health as well as the influence of contemporary religion on mental health.

Joana is a Co-Investigator on the British Academy funded Leisure or Livelihoods project and is coordinating data collection and analysis in Ghana, along with her colleague Dr. Franklin Glozah.

Joana is a founding convenor and a Co-Chair of Gambling Realities Africa