| Title | 4. Calibrating the global: |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science? |
| Contributor | Jessica Pourraz(author) |
| Allison Felix Hughes(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Jessica Pourraz and Allison Felix Hughes |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2025-09-08 |
| Page range | pp. 113–139 |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 11 illustrations |
Jessica Pourraz holds a PhD in sociology (2019) from the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is a postdoctoral research fellow with Sciences Po Bordeaux and an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences (CSH) in Delhi. Her research focuses on issues related to science, biomedicine, the environment, and health, and more particularly on the health effects of air pollution in India and Ghana.
Allison Felix Hughes is a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana. He was also a Special Fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Science of Harvard University, USA. His research interests include air pollution characterisation and modelling, renewable energy technologies, climate change, physics education, and conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy. He is a member of the Ghana Institute of Physics; Ghana Science Association; Institute of Physics, UK; and the University Teachers Association of Ghana.