Esinam Avornyo

Esinam Ami Avornyo is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Her research is concerned with children and how the home and school environments drive their learning and development. Both areas of research involve descriptive research as well as testing and evaluating interventions that promote positive child development, learning and education. Leveraging both quantitative and qualitative research methods, her work seeks to shed light on factors that influence children’s learning and development success as well as pathways by which children can reach their developmental milestones. Esinam has supported impact evaluation research in Ghana, including the Leveraging Early Adolescence for Development (LEAD) program funded by the European Research Council. She has served as a co-Principal Investigator on a LEGO Foundation project focused on understanding barriers to caregivers’ engagement in children’s education and as a Principal Investigator on a Luminos Fund project that explored factors impeding learning of out- of-school children in an accelerated learning program in Ghana. Additionally, she worked as the evaluation statistician on the Right to Play Partners in Play Project (P3) in Ghana from 2021 – 2024. Currently, she serves as the Principal Investigator on an early childhood development research funded by ESSA and REAL and a co-Principal Investigator on a Jacobs Foundation funded research. Esinam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), an MPhil and a PhD degree in Education from the University of Cambridge (UK).