Overview

The Research and Innovation Directorate (RID) is the research arm of the University of Ghana (UG), with a mandate to promote a vibrant research environment, develop strategic partnerships, and advance science, innovation, and technology. 

The Directorate facilitates internal and external research funding and supports researchers and multi-disciplinary research teams to achieve the University's research goals focused on the following areas:

Research Focus Areas

• Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases
• Food Production and Processing Including Improved Approaches to Breeding
• Trans-Disciplinary Research into Climate Change Adaptation
• Development Policy, Poverty Monitoring, and Evaluation
• Politics, socio-cultural change, mobility and development
• Creative arts, education and communication and information literacy
• Fourth industrial revolution tools (artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, digital transformation etc)

In building partnerships in academia and industry, RID seeks to accelerate the pace of innovation and technology in research and safeguard the impact of UG's scholarship on communities and the environment for national development.