Kerebih Asires(Ph.D)

  FULL NAME: Kerebih Asires(Ph.D.)

CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE TITLE : Department Head

OFFICE ADDRESS: Social Work Department, Back of FBE Library

MOBILE NUMBER: +251918782010

OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: +251588209762

E-MAIL ADDRESS:kerebih2000@yahoo.com

EDUCATION

 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2005/06 – 2007/08          Department Head, Geography & Environmental Studies

2014/15 – till now        Department Head, Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:

  2015 – till now      Associate Editor, The Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences (EJSS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University.

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES (present and past) chronological

2016/17, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2015/16, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2015/16, Quantitative Research Methods for Social Workers, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2015/16, Social Protection and Social Policy Analysis, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2014/15, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2014/15, Qualitative Research Method for Social Workers, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2014/15, Quantitative Research Methods for Social Workers, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2014/15,Social Protection and Social Policy Analysis, Graduate program, Social Work Department

2005/06, Geography of Third World Development, Undergraduate program, Geography and environmental Studies Department

2005/06, Population and Settlement, Undergraduate program, Geography and environmental Studies Department

2006/07, Geography of Third World Development, Undergraduate program, Geography and environmental Studies Department

2006/07, Population and Settlement, Undergraduate program, Geography and environmental Studies Department

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2010- till now, Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social Workers and Anthropologists

2006 – till now, Ethiopian Young Men Christian Association

 OFFICE AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  2016 – till now Vice Chair person, Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social Workers and Anthropologists,North Western Branch.

PUBLICATIONS

Kerebih A. (2014). Women’s Social Network, Use of Skilled Birth Attendants, and Experience of Quality in Delivery Services in Jabi Tehinan Distrct, Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia. Addis Ababa University, PhD Dissertaion.

Kerebih A. &  Mulunesh A. (2014). Early marriage in South Wollo and East Gojjam zones of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(2): 11-16.

Alemtsehay M &  Kerebih A. (2014). Household decision making status of women in Dabat District, North West Ethiopia. Science Journal of Public Health, 2(2): 111-118.

Kerebih A., Tizita T. & Alemtsehay M. (2014). Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of women begging in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(3), 75-80.

Ajala, O., & Kerebih, A. (2008). Accessibility in equality to basic education in Amhara region, Ethiopia. Ethiopia Journal of Education and Sciences, Jimma University, 3(2), 11-26.

Kerebih A. & Mulunesh A. (2007).Major harmful Traditional Practices and Violence against Women in South Wollo and East Gojjam Zones of the Amhara Region

Kerebih A. (2005). Impact of Microcredit on Rural Women’s Reproductive Behaviour: The case of ACSI in Jabi Tehinan Woreda. Addis Ababa University, MSc. Thesis.

 MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Population, resource and development; population, health and environment; Reproductive health; Poverty and Reproductive health; Education and Reproductive behavior; Microfinance (microenterprise) and poverty alleviation; Microenterprise and Women’s empowerment, social network and health service utilization, urbanization and associated problems, food security

 KEY SKILLS AND ABILITIES

SPSS, Social Policy Analysis