Biography
Irene Among is a PhD. Candidate on a joint candidature between Ruhr University Bochum Germany and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is a recipient of a scholarship from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska‐Curie grant agreement No. 956909 through the ADAPTED project (Eradicating Poverty: Pathways Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals). Her research focuses on legal mechanisms for building coherent social protection systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Work
- Irene Among (2026) - (Re)Framing Coherence: A Relational Analysis of Social Protection Systems in South Africa and Uganda - Politics and Governance, 14 (2026), 1 - doi: 10.17645/pag.11298 - [link]
- Irene Among & Markus Kaltenborn (2026) - The African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security: Prospects for Comprehensive Social Protection Systems - African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 33 (4) - doi: 10.3366/ajicl.2025.05
- Irene Among, Markus Kaltenborn & Natalia Zakharchenko (2025) - The legal framework of institutional change in social protection systems - doi: 10.4337/9781800371361.00011 - [link]
- Ahmed El Assal & Irene Among (2024) - Urban Public Perceptions of NGOs’ Accountability and Legitimacy: A Social Media Analysis of #UgandaNGOsExhibition - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 36 (2), 166-178 - doi: 10.1007/s11266-024-00705-z
