Marcellus Forh Mbah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcellus Forh Mbah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcellus Forh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbah |
| SIGNATURE | MBAH M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4199-0819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Addressing climate change education
Purpose This study aims to identify and describe the nature of higher education institutions’ (HEIs) engagement with climate change (CC) education, exploring their contributions to addressing the multifaceted challenges associated with the phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach By using a dual methodological approach consisting of an expert-driven literature review with supporting cases, the study provides a novel perspective of university invol…
Visualising Voices
This paper examines Photoyarn, an Indigenous adaptation of photovoice, as a methodological tool for amplifying the voices of Indigenous girls in Zambia during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, twelve participants from Chongwe (Lusaka Province) and Solwezi (North-Western Province) used photography and yarning to represent their experiences of education under school closures. Photoyarn counters extractive research by combining participant-generated i…
Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’
Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and dominant language proficiency—conditions often absent in rural Indigenous households. This mismatch deepened e…
The orchestration of a sustainable development agenda in the European Higher Education Area
Purpose This paper aims to ask how the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has orchestrated a sustainable development (SD) agenda in its international policy since 2020. Design/methodology/approach By drawing on theoretical ideas around policy orchestration as a key UN governing strategy and applying them to the analysis of the progression of the SD agenda in the EHEA, the paper conducts a thematic analysis of six recent key EHEA international …
Disobedience, (dis)embodied knowledge management, and decolonization
In this work, we sought to uncover the key strategies and challenges to the integration of Indigenous knowledge as knowledge management practices at a public university in The Gambia. It is often axiomatic in the literature that the incorporation of diverse epistemologies is a key resource for sustainable development; therefore, activities associated with the management of knowledge, particularly in higher education, are worthy of elucidation. We…
The role of artificial intelligence in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts
Research has oftentimes been carried out in Indigenous communities for the sole benefit of the western researcher. As a result, feelings of distrust toward researchers and research institutions have become prevalent among Indigenous peoples. However, this distrust can be resolved through the use of research approaches and methods that reflect Indigenous perspectives, beliefs, and values and that centre the entire research process on the Indigenou…
Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development
Engaging local youths in humanitarian response is not a matter of if but how
Despite being critical responders in humanitarian crises, local youths are continually left out of the humanitarian action agenda. This paper used a qualitative methodology to investigate local youths’ role in humanitarian response and their impacts and assessed how humanitarian actors influence the effectiveness of youth engagement. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with local youths who participated in the Ebola response…
Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development
Purpose While the possibility of a university fostering sustainable development is present in the extant literature and policy documents, the idea still warrants further consideration. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the nature and outcomes of the university’s engagement with Indigenous communities and perceptions of Indigenous knowledge systems in both academic and non-academic activities, and what might be required to foster the universi…
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation
This paper considered the changes in education that are needed in response to the rapidly deteriorating state of the Earth’s environment. We argued that such changes should be focussed on developing an effective education that equips inhabitants of the Earth to understand their environment towards contributing to its conservation, especially with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is crucial because previously colonised peo…
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts
Research has oftentimes been carried out in Indigenous communities for the sole benefit of the western researcher. As a result, feelings of distrust toward researchers and research institutions have become prevalent among Indigenous peoples. However, this distrust can be resolved through the use of research approaches and methods that reflect Indigenous perspectives, beliefs, and values and that centre the entire research process on the Indigenou…
The role of artificial intelligence in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation
This paper considered the changes in education that are needed in response to the rapidly deteriorating state of the Earth’s environment. We argued that such changes should be focussed on developing an effective education that equips inhabitants of the Earth to understand their environment towards contributing to its conservation, especially with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is crucial because previously colonised peo…
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development
Engaging local youths in humanitarian response is not a matter of if but how
Despite being critical responders in humanitarian crises, local youths are continually left out of the humanitarian action agenda. This paper used a qualitative methodology to investigate local youths’ role in humanitarian response and their impacts and assessed how humanitarian actors influence the effectiveness of youth engagement. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with local youths who participated in the Ebola response…
Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development
Purpose While the possibility of a university fostering sustainable development is present in the extant literature and policy documents, the idea still warrants further consideration. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the nature and outcomes of the university’s engagement with Indigenous communities and perceptions of Indigenous knowledge systems in both academic and non-academic activities, and what might be required to foster the universi…
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation
This paper considered the changes in education that are needed in response to the rapidly deteriorating state of the Earth’s environment. We argued that such changes should be focussed on developing an effective education that equips inhabitants of the Earth to understand their environment towards contributing to its conservation, especially with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is crucial because previously colonised peo…
Considerations for relational research methods for use in Indigenous contexts
Research has oftentimes been carried out in Indigenous communities for the sole benefit of the western researcher. As a result, feelings of distrust toward researchers and research institutions have become prevalent among Indigenous peoples. However, this distrust can be resolved through the use of research approaches and methods that reflect Indigenous perspectives, beliefs, and values and that centre the entire research process on the Indigenou…
The orchestration of a sustainable development agenda in the European Higher Education Area
Purpose This paper aims to ask how the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has orchestrated a sustainable development (SD) agenda in its international policy since 2020. Design/methodology/approach By drawing on theoretical ideas around policy orchestration as a key UN governing strategy and applying them to the analysis of the progression of the SD agenda in the EHEA, the paper conducts a thematic analysis of six recent key EHEA international …
Disobedience, (dis)embodied knowledge management, and decolonization
In this work, we sought to uncover the key strategies and challenges to the integration of Indigenous knowledge as knowledge management practices at a public university in The Gambia. It is often axiomatic in the literature that the incorporation of diverse epistemologies is a key resource for sustainable development; therefore, activities associated with the management of knowledge, particularly in higher education, are worthy of elucidation. We…
The role of artificial intelligence in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11
Addressing climate change education
Purpose This study aims to identify and describe the nature of higher education institutions’ (HEIs) engagement with climate change (CC) education, exploring their contributions to addressing the multifaceted challenges associated with the phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach By using a dual methodological approach consisting of an expert-driven literature review with supporting cases, the study provides a novel perspective of university invol…
Visualising Voices
This paper examines Photoyarn, an Indigenous adaptation of photovoice, as a methodological tool for amplifying the voices of Indigenous girls in Zambia during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, twelve participants from Chongwe (Lusaka Province) and Solwezi (North-Western Province) used photography and yarning to represent their experiences of education under school closures. Photoyarn counters extractive research by combining participant-generated i…
Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’
Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and dominant language proficiency—conditions often absent in rural Indigenous households. This mismatch deepened e…
Political science (9 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sustainable development (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Social science (4 works)