Mr Ernest Darkwah first picked up the Runner Up award for poster prizes before going on to win the overall Delegates' Choice poster prize at the conference held from 10-12th January at the Crowne Plaza, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

This 2018 edition of the DOP's annual conference attracted hundreds of delegates from across the world and involved oral and poster presentations from researchers and practitioners in the field of occupational psychology.

Mr. Darkwah participated in the poster sessions and competed against 29 other research posters presented by scholars, researchers and practitioners from around the world.

Mr. Darkwah's poster presented his PhD research project which explores work-related stress-resource experiences of care workers in children's homes in Ghana.

Every year all delegates are asked to choose the best presented poster and the winner receives the Delegates' Choice award.

Presenting the award this year at the annual end-of-conference dinner and awards gala in the grand ball room of the prestigious Crowne Plaza Hotel located in the historic birth place of Britain's William Shakespeare, the DOP's Fiona Beddoes-Jones (Conference Committee Co-chair) said: "no one else came close" in the competition to Mr. Darkwah's research poster.

Mr. Darkwah is currently a full scholarship final year PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen in Norway and was attending the conference for the first time.

In 2011, Mr. Darkwah won the Cadbury Prize for Best Graduating Student in Psychology when he graduated with a first class honours in his bachelor's degree at the University of Ghana.

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