Monday, June 26, 2017

AUSC President's Office shares the CURRICULUM VITAE of an appointed Representative for African Union Students’ Council, United Kingdom Chapter, Honorable Mr KINGSLEY OLUCHI UGWUANYI, Nationality of NIGERIA.June 26th, 2017.

AUSC President's Office shares the CURRICULUM VITAE of an appointed Representative for African Union Students’ Council, United Kingdom Chapter, Honorable Mr KINGSLEY OLUCHI UGWUANYI, Nationality of NIGERIA.June 26th, 2017.
KINGSLEY OLUCHI UGWUANYI
Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
T: +234 (0) 803 098 2688 | E: kingsley.ugwuanyi@unn.edu.ng | comradekings2004@gmail.com
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Linguistics, Department of Humanities, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 7584 49 8650 | E: kingsley.ugwuanyi@northumbria.ac.uk
AUSC Professional E-mail address: ausc.ukoffice.representative@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
2016—     Northumbria University at Newcastle, United Kingdom
    Doctor of Philosophy in Sociolinguistics (in progress)
  
  
2010—2012          University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
·    Master of Arts in English as a Second Language
·    Graduated with Distinction (CGPA: 5.00 of 5.00)
·    Award: Best Graduating Student (language)                               
·    Dissertation: Developing the Communicative Competence of Second Language Speakers of English through Literature

2004—2008          University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
•    Bachelor of Arts in English and Literary Studies
•    Graduated with First Class Honours Division
•    Award: Best Graduating Student of the Department (2008)
•    Project: New Englishes of the World: The Nigerian Example
          
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching/Research
2010 to date          Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
 (on study leave)     Lecturer II                                                    
•     Core duties: teaching, research, course design and strategic planning
•    Supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate students’s projects
•    Other administrative duties like project planning and execution

2016 to date      Linguistics, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
          Associate Lecturer
•    Core duties: teaching, research, and module preparation


Editorship/Review Experience
2015 to date    Member, Editorial Team, Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching (TOJELT) - http://www.tojelt.com/editorial.html
2015 to date    Reviewer, DINAMIKA ILMU: International Education Journal. http://journal.iain-samarinda.ac.id/index.php/dinamika_ilmu
2012–2015     Editorial Assistant, The Village within the Global Village: Art and Culture in a Globalizing                                                                                               World. Readings from the Chinua Achebe International Biennial Conference, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Administrative
2009–2010    Registry Department (General Duties), University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
                               Administrative Assistant
•    Core duties: Correspondence, writing (letters, minutes, speeches etc)
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES AND POSITIONS OUTSIDE NORMAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2016-    Representative, African Union Students’ Council, United Kingdom Chapter
2016-2017    Co-chair, Organising Committee for the 12th Newcastle upon Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, co-hosted by Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria.
2015-2016     Examinations Officer, Department of English and Literary Studies
2012-2015    Secretary, Faculty of Arts Book of Readings Editorial Committee
2011-2012    Secretary, Chinua Achebe International Conference of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria Organising Committee
2012-2013    Academic Adviser, Year-three Students
2011-2013     Member, Faculty Space Allocation Committee
2011 to date     Member, Departmental Library Committee
2010 - 2015    Member, Departmental Examinations Committee
2008 – 2009    National Vice-President, National Association of Students of English and Literary Studies         (NASELS)
2007 – 2008    President, English and Literary Students’ Association (ELSA), University of Nigeria, Nsukka



PUBLICATIONS

Published Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. & Matthias Chukwu (2016). Interrogating the teaching and learning of English in Nigeria: Still in search of an enabling principle. Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching (TOJELT), 1(2): 75—84. http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/tojelt/article/view/5000176698
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. & Sosthenes N. Ekeh (2015). Shifting the borders: Genre-crossing in Modern African Drama. Research Innovator: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2(5): 1—17. http://www.research-chronicler.com/ResInv/pdf/v2i5/2501.pdf  
·    Chukwu, Mathias, Ijeoma Oguanuo & Kingsley Ugwuanyi (2014). Poor literacy in the English language: Beyond the teacher and his classroom, inside the mass media. Literacy and Reading in Nigeria: A Journal of the Reading Association of Nigeria, 15(2): 261—266.
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2011). Western mentality and emasculation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria (JLSN), 3(1): 35—44.
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2008). ‘Humanistic thought and the scapegoat figure in Euripedes’ Iphigenia at Aulis’. The Muse: A Literary Journal of Creative and Critical Writing at Nsukka, 36(36): 14—19.

Accepted paper(s)
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O., Matthias Chukwu & Hyginus Eze (2016). The tragic order and the threat of comedy in Achebe’s Arrow of God (accepted by Okike: African Journal of New Writing)
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2015). ...but some are more equal than others: A Marxist reading of Benedict Benabai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks. Unlocking the puzzle box of solo drama in Nigeria (edited by Mabel Evwierhoma, Austine Akpuda, Chike Okoye & Chidi Nwankwo).

Papers/book chapters under review
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2016). Has Nigerian English Actually Come of Age? (an article)

Books
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2013). Developing the Communicative Competence of Second-language Speakers of English through Literature. Saarbrucken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
·    Ugwuanyi, Kingsley O. (2012). Government Terms and Facts: A Dictionary for Students of Government. Second Edition. Port-Harcourt: Neigbourhood Publishers.

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, STUDENTSHIPS AND BURSARIES

2016—        PhD Research Studentship of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom


2016    Full Bursary, Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School, University of Rwanda, Kigali, 13th—21st August 2016


2016        Postgraduate PhD Studentship, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (not taken up)


2016    University of Auckland Faculty of Arts Doctoral Scholarship 2016, University of Auckland, New Zealand (not taken up)

ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

2016    Getting Published in African Studies Workshop: Organised by African Studies Association, United Kingdom at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, 28 November 2016
2016    Doing International Fieldwork in Developing Contexts: Organised by the Newcastle University, 1 December 2016

CONFERENCES ATTENDED & PAPERS PRESENTED
2015    International Conference of the English Language Teachers Association of Nigeria (ELTAN) held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    Paper Presented: Interrogating the teaching and learning of English in Nigeria: Still in search of an enabling principle
2014    International Conference of the Reading Association of Nigeria held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
    Paper presented: Poor literacy in the English language: Beyond the teacher and his classroom, inside the mass media.
2013    Africa and World Literature (AWL) Conference of the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    Paper presented: Neuro-linguistic Programming in Teacher-learner Discourse
2012        Chinua Achebe International Conference of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
        Paper presented: Theocide and Apocalypse in Achebe’s Arrow of God
2011    Annual Conference of the Literary Society of Nigeria held at the University of Benin, Benin City.  
Paper presented: Western mentality and emasculation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

°    British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
°    International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
°    Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA), United Kingdom
°    English Language Teachers Association of Nigeria (ELTAN)
°    Linguistic Ethnography Forum–a special interest group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

TRAININGS, FURTHER COURSES & ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES

2015        AuthorAid Writing Workshop on Qualitative Research
        University of Nigeria, Nsukka
        Certificate: Certificate of Participation
2015        Beareau of International Information Programs
United States Department of State’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)
Course/Certificate: Leadership Course (certificate awarded)
2015        Power up: English for the Energy Transmission provided by http://philanthropyu.org/
2015        Organizational Capacity: Assessment to Action provided by www. http://philanthropyu.org/
        Course/Certificate: Cerficicate of Participation (certificate awarded)    
2015        University of Queensland, Australia
        Course: English Grammar and Style
2015        British Council, United Kingdom
        Course: Understanding IELTS
2010        Management Course by the National Institute of Management (NIM)
        Course/Certificate: Diploma in Management (certificate awarded)
2009        IEC Career Training Network
        Course: Career/Job Creation Awreness (certificate  awarded)
2009        National Interactive Youth Forum organized by Rise Nigeria
        Course/Certificate: Certificate of Youth Advocacy (certificate awarded)
2008    Entrepreneurship/Development Programme by Centre for Entrepreneurship and Development Research, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
         Course: Entepreneurship/Development (certificate awarded)
2008        Universal Mandatory IT Training (UMITT) by the University of Nigeria ICT Centre
        Course: Computer/ICT Proficiency (certificate awarded)
     AWARDS, HONOURS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2012 to date     Pioneered a now nationwide call-in radio programme called ‘English Parliament’ aired on Lion FM (91.1) and Voice (96.7), adjudged one of the best programmes in each of the stations
2013-2014    Organised a community-wide youth empowerment programme in my community called Eha-alumona Youth Empowerment Programme, where many youths were trained on career development
2013    Best Graduating Student (Language), Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (MA)
2010    Led a team of corps members to organise a symposium on Oil Deregulation in Nigeria in Benin, Edo State, Nigeria (in partnership with the Department of Mass Communication, University of Benin City)
2009    Co-organised a symposium on Constitutional Amendment in Nigeria under Leadership Trust International (an NGO)  
2008    Best Graduating Student, Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (BA)
2007/2008    Two-time Second-Prize Winner on Critical Writing at the University of Nigeria Literary Arts Festival, 2007 & 2008 editions          
2007–2008    Led a team of resource persons to organise several career trainings for secondary school students in Nsukka under an NGO           

ADDITIONAL PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nationality:    Nigerian
Languages:     Igbo (native)
                         English (near-native competence)
Interests:     Sociolinguistics, second language research, English grammar and African literature
Strengths:    Very good knowledge of the English language; computer knowledge; diplomatic and communicative competence; and management/organisational and leadership abilities

REFERENCES
Sam Onuigbo, Professor of English, Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria and Former Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka | samuel.onuigbo@unn.edu.ng | +234 (0) 803 548 3074
Ikenna Dieke, Formerly Professor of English and African Studies, Institute of African Studies, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA; and now Professor of English, Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka | ikenna.dieke@unn.edu.ng  | +234 (0) 810 006 5893

Approved by
Iraguha Bandora Yves
Founder and President of AUSC.
Kigali-Rwanda-East African Community (EAC).
www.africanunionsc.org


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