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BENEFICIARY DEPARTMENT THESIS TITLE
GRANT
AMOUNT
UNIVERSITY OF
REGISTRARTION
Benedicta A.
Lomotey
Modern Languages
Implications of Feminist Proposals
for Language Reform: The case of
Linguistic Sexism in Spanish
GH¢ 14,922
National University of
Distance Education,
Madrid, Spain
Benjamin Osei
Botwe
Marine and Fisheries
Sciences
Historical Trends in Chemical
Pollution and Sedimentation in the
Tema Harbour, Ghana
GH¢ 15,000
UNESCO-IHE Institute for
Water Education, Nether-
lands
Bernard Owusu
Asimeng
Biomedical Engineering
Mechanical Properties and
Degradation Studies of Polythene
Blend Starch-Hydroxyapatite
Composite for Orthopaedic
applications
GH¢ 14,086
Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and
Technology, Ghana
Edward Nartey
Accounting
The Theory and Empirics on
Improving Vehicular Traffic Flow
Management in Ghana
GH¢ 15,000
Lancaster University, UK
Nancy Myles
Gyamfi
Philosophy and Classics
Community, Individuality and
Democracy: Philosophical
Perspectives
GH¢ 10,000
University of Utrecht,
Netherlands
William Narteh
Gblerkpor
Archaeology &
Heritage Studies
The weapons of our Warfare are
not Carnal: An Archaeological and
Enthnohistorical Study
Of Anti Colonial Identity in Krobo,
Ghana
GH¢ 10,000
University of Texas at
Austin, USA
Zainudeen M.
Abdulmumin
Modern Languages
The Artistic Image of Women in Al-
Mufaddaliyat: A Rhetorical Analytical
Study
GH¢ 15,000
University of Usmanu
Danfodiyo, Nigeria
Research Support Services
From the Donors to our “Door-Steps”:
Providing grant management services to faculty members
and encouraging our “young” researchers.
In 2010, when ORID was established, its immediate focus was
to enable UG faculty members to understand its facilitation
and coordination role for research. For many years, faculty
members have written out grant proposals on their own,
sourced for funding and had basically performed all the
administrative functions related to their research projects
on their own. Providing research support has been one of
the priorities of ORID - the aim is to create a platform which
allows UG’s researchers to focus on the “science” of their
research while we sort out all the other details related to
the grant such as setting up reminder systems for reporting,
providing advice on procurement related to research projects
among many other services.
The facilitating role played by ORID ranges from sourcing
for research funding opportunities to processing grant
applications from opportunities that come from donors
outside the University of Ghana among others. Grants which
fall within this bracket are termed External Grants by ORID.
In early 2013, Dr. Patrick
Kobina Arthur of the
Department of Biochemistry,
Cell and Molecular Biology
approached ORID for
support to enable him to
finalise his budget etc. for
onward submission to Grand
Challenges Canada which
was considering him for a
grant. ORID provided budgetary support as well guidance
and support for completing all the paperwork associated with
this grant. Following the successful submission and approval
of all the requisite information, Dr. Arthur was confirmed
as one of the 102 winners announced in the first phase of
Round 4 of the
Stars in Global Health
sponsored by Grand
Challenges.
Dr. Arthur will receive an amount of US$113,000 CAD from
Grand Challenges Canada over an eighteen (18) month
period for his project titled
“Proteomic analysis of the
Dr. Patrick Kobina Arthur
Faculty Development Grant Beneficiaries
