TITLE (PROF/DR/): PROFESSOR

NAME: CHINWE ROSABELLE NWANNA

POSITION: PROFESSOR                                         SPECIALISATION: SOCIAL WORK

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

Personal Statement

I am a pioneer female Professor of Social Work in the University and a consultant researcher with a passion for promoting human rights of vulnerable groups of people in our society. My work focuses on child justice and corrections social work, social welfare services, school social work, disabilities studies, HIV/AIDS, gender studies including gender-based violence, urbanization and migration. I have contributed immensely to the development of social work education both in the University and Nigeria by designing a log book for students’ fieldwork practicum which was rated high by the 2015 accreditation team, development of curriculum, designing of many social work courses, participating in the standardization and harmonization of curricula for National Diploma (ND)/Higher National Diploma (HND), and Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) for both undergraduate and postgraduate social work programmes. I have an impressive portfolio of 35 empirical developmental and policy-oriented research studies and 70 publications in reputable peer-reviewed national and international journals and books. I have mentored one PhD graduate and 2 others are ongoing, over 40 masters students, over 200 undergraduates and over 250 diploma students.

Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• Member – Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work Council – 2025
• Head of the Department of Social Work 2021 – 2024
• Financial Secretary – Nigeria Association of Social Work Educators (NASWE), now Association of Social Work Educators of Nigeria (ASWEN) 2010 – Date
• Coordinator of B.Sc. Social Work Programme from 2007 to 2018,
• The Best Ph. D. thesis in the Humanities, School of Post Graduate Studies, University of Lagos 2009
• Vice Chancellor’s, College/Faculty, National School Fund and Sociology Prizes for the Best All Round Graduating Student in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Degree Level 1986

Selected Most Recent Publications /Contributions to Knowledge

1. R. Nwanna (2025). Caught in the web: Rebuilding the cradle. Inaugural Lecture Series 2025. University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Ltd.
2. Mugumbate, R., Nwanna, C. R., Twikirize, J. and Tusasiirwe, S. (2024). Empirical evidence on the names and values of Africa’s philosophy of Ubuntu. Journal of Ubuntu/Nyingi waUbuntu, 1(1), 1-19. https://ubuntu.africasocialwork.net/1124-empirical-evidence-on-the-names-and-values-of-africas-philosophy-of-ubuntu/
3. Kunnuji, M., Okocha, R., Adeleke, O., Nwanna, C. and Eshiet, I. (2024). Sexual and reproductive health challenges and service use among internally displaced persons in Benue and Kaduna states of Nigeria: A comparative study. Discover Public Health. Vol. 21, 135 (2024). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-024-00258- y?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20241014&utm_content=10.1186%2Fs12982-024-00258-y
4. Nwanna, C.R., Okoye, O. C. and Oparaoha, U. N. (2023). Collective child rearing in Igboland as a panacea to juvenile delinquency: A philosophical analysis in Twikirize, J. M., Tusasiirwe, S. and Mugumbate, R. (Eds). Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa. Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group. 1st Edition. 104-117

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003330370-11/collective-child-rearing-igboland-panacea-juvenile-delinquency-chinwe-nwanna-obiageli-okoye?context=ubx&refId=9779b9b7-108c-4a5b-ae8e-8e436bdc385f

5. Nwanna, C. R. (2023). Field education and school social work in Nigeria: A Lagos state experience. Nigerian Journal of Social Work Education. 22. June 2023: 141 – 152. Department of Social Work, University of Ibadan, Oyo, State.

Collaborators/ Networks (International inclusive)

1. Dr Mugumbate, University of Wollongong, Australia
2. Prof. Janestic Twikirize, Makerere University, Uganda

• Corlie Giliomee, University of Pretoria

1. A. Atsenuwa, University of Lagos
2. I. Ogunniran, University of Lagos