UNN Research Groups Directory 2017 to 2019 - List of active Research Groups in UNN
Dear All,
It is my pleasure to present the 2nd edition
of the University of Nigeria Research Groups (RGs). This edition
contains the summaries of eighty-six (86) RGs that are drawn from all
the academic units of the university. These are the apparent active RGs
in UNN. You'll agree that there is no need to include non-active RGs in
the directory.
The
criteria for defining active RG: 1. existing RGs that submitted
their progress reports and 2. New applications for registration as
RGs.
The
list of the active RGs that will be included in the 2nd edition of the
UNN directory is included in the body of the mail and also attached as a
MS word file. They will also receive the financial support from the
University administration to help in running some of their activities.
Please,
let us know whether you either submitted a progress report or sent a
concept note for a new RG and your RG is omitted from the list.
Summary of active research groups in UNN – June 2017
The Research Groups: Summaries Presented Alphabetically According to Faculties
edu.ng Tel: Department of Animal ScienceReceived: 0 Naira2.Environment and Natural Resource Research GroupFocus: Research on environmental and natural resources. The broad objective is to contribute to natural resource and environmental sustainability in Nigeria through evidence based researchCoordinator: Prof A.E. AgwuDepartment of Agricultural ExtensionReceived: Fifty thousand Naira3.FAMILY LIVING AND SOCIETY RESEARCH GROUP (FALSREG)Focus: Family Resources Management; Marriage, Family Counseling, Survival and Sustainability; Early Childhood Education and Childcare practices/Parenting styles; Food, Nutrition and Family well being; Pattern Development and Garment Construction; Consumer Education; Fashion Design and Illustration 8. Entrepreneurship EducationCoordinator: Dr. C.I. IloejeEmail: catherine.iloeje@unn.edu.ng Tel: +2348038590432 Department of Home Science and ManagementReceived: O Naira4.Food Composition, Data Generation and Public Health Nutrition Research GroupFocus: Dietary phytochemical index of traditional diets: Relationship with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevalence in south-east Nigerian householdsCoordinator: Elizabeth A. UdentaDepartment of Home Science, Nutrition and DieteticEmail: elizabeth.udenta@unn.edu.ng Tel: +2348035974501. Received: O Naira5.Food Security Research GroupFocus: Identify and harness the agricultural potentials of Nigeria, through Multi-Disciplinary Research, with a view to contributing to the current Agricultural Transformation Agenda and ensuring food security in Nigeria.Coordinator: Professor Michael I. UguruDepartment of Crop ScienceReceived: One hundred thousand Naira only (100,000 Naira)6.Food Security and Sustainable Environment Research GroupFocus: Agriculture, food security, environment, policy, development and advocacyCoordinator: Dr. NwaJesus A. OnyekuruEmail:Phone : Department of Agricultural EconomicsReceived: One hundred thousand Naira only (100,000 Naira)7. Nutrition Education, Communication and Health Promotion Research Group (NECHPREG)Focus: Researches and activities that will link food constituents with nutrition and health promotion of the populace using appropriate nutrition indicators and communication that will bring about positive lifestyle modifications.Coordinator:Email: Elizabeth.ngwu@unn.edu.ng Phone: +234 803922345 Department of Nutrition and DieteticsReceived: 0 Naira8. Soil Fertility Research GroupFocus: Strengthening household and national food security, sovereignty & safety in rural and smallholder agricultural production systems of Nigeria, by combining farmer knowledge and socioeconomic capacities with knowledge from West African research, university institutions, and international agricultural research centres with problem-oriented methodologiesCoordinator: Dr (Mrs) C.B. ObikaEmail:Phone : Department of Soil ScienceReceived: 0 Naira.
ne: +234 (0) 803 961 7898 Department of Coordinator: Department of History & International StudiesReceived: Fifty thousand naira2.Cultural Software Study GroupFocus: Impact analysis of art and art related productions on the socio-political entity and outlook of Nigeria and its peoples. The nature of impact of these cultural productions, the nature of the exchanges with the cultural base between which influence these productions, the ways in which the culture itself has been changing, the resultant shifts in self-perception and perceptions of the world, the ways in which the local culture responds to globalization trends, and the ways in which the new cultural productions reflect the globalizing trends; and the human impact of these trends. Also the extent national identity and person identity depend on language; to what extent the national and person identities coincide or diverge and what may be the impact on national cohesion. What may be the negative consequences of deemphasizing the arts and humanities in education and national planning? How may these consequences be measured?Email: Phone:Coordinator: Professor A.N. AkwanyaDepartment of English and Literary StudiesReceived: 0 Naira3. Igbo Mother Tongue Education in South East Nigeria ProjectFocus: Conduct researches that would develop the capacity for use of Igbo as the medium for pedagogy at various levels of education in South east Nigeria. Curriculum, syllabus would be developed to meet the needs of this purpose. It will also require translation projects of already existing texts where necessary and pilot test projects including primary pupils and adult mass literacy stratum.Coordinator: Mrs. Chioma N. AkaezeEmail: chioma.akaeze@unn.edu.ng, GSM: +2348035531080 Department of Linguistics, Igbo & Other Nigerian Languages, U.N.NReceived: 0 Naira4.Multicultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching and LearningFocus: Empirical research on motivation for foreign language learning; Comparative work on different aspects of the students’ mother tongues and the foreign languages being learnt; Empirical research on learning strategies that enhance language learning of Nigerian students & development & testing of new learning strategies; The influence of already learned/acquired foreign languages on other foreign languages currently being learned by Nigerian university students; The role of multi-media aids in the teaching and learning of foreign languagesCoordinator: Dr. Mrs, F.N. IbemesiEmail: Phone:Department of Foreign Languages and Literary StudiesReceived: 0 Naira5.Multilingual Sci-Tech/Literary Translation and Interpretation Research GroupFocus: The translation and interpretation of classical and technical texts including evaluation and criticism of translated texts. Besides, the group aims at using information technology to create software that can be used to translate African scientific/cultural concepts into English, French and German Languages. Also, terminology creation will be embarked upon.Coordinator: Dr. A.C. NwanjokuDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literary Studies6. Research in Endangered & Dead LanguagesFocus: Research will focus on the indices and parameters that serve as indicators of endangered languages, literature and culture. Fading oral traditions shall be studied and recorded. Research interest also includes building capacity for language maintenance and language documentation. Policies making and advocacies for language revival will be embarked upon.Coordinator: Dr. Enyinnaya S. IkeokwuEmail: enyinnaya.ikeokwu@unn.edu.ng, Tel: +2348066736976 Department of Linguistics, Igbo & Other Nigerian Languages, U.N.NReceived: 0 Naira7.Research in Indigenous Writing Systems and Indigenous Languages EducationFocus: Studies on African indigenous writing systems with a view to formalizing and standardizing them for possible adoption in indigenous language pedagogy. Special attention would be paid to rural education and mass literacy campaigns using these systems. Most African scripts are understudied; researches would be carried out on their values and functionality thereby projecting them and igniting further researches.Coordinator: Ahamefula, Ndubuisi OgbonnaEmail: ndubuisi.ahamefula@unn.edu.ng, GSM: +2348034772290 Department of Linguistics, Igbo & Other Nigerian LanguagesReceived: 0 Naira8.Research in Linguistic Rights and Rural Entrepreneurial DevelopmentFocus: Language rights is one of the rights that are enshrined in the tenets and declarations of the United Nations; the research studies capacity building issues as relates to the rural populace in accessing the economy through the language of their immediate environment and indigenous languages. It is expected that any citizen regardless of his language and location should have access to governance, politics, economy, education: This is the primary focus of this research with a view to building capacities and bridging gaps.Coordinator: Dr. (Mrs.) Crescentia U. Ugwuona (Ph.D)Email: crescentia.ugwuona@unn.edu.ng, GSM: +2347036832566 Department of Linguistics, Igbo & Other Nigerian LanguagesReceived: 0 Naira9.Research in Politics of Language & Identity Crisis in IgboFocus: Research will focus on studies in negotiation of identity in a pluralingual Nigera. Language choice and identity crisis will be studied via some linguistic phenomena such as diglossia/’triglossia’ etc.Coordinator: Prof. Christopher U. AgbedoEmail: christopher.agbedo@unn.edu.ng, GSM: +2348036868498 Department of Linguistics, Igbo & Other Nigerian LanguagesReceived: 0 Naira10.Rescue of Endangered Folk Music Heritage of NigeriaFocus: High value placed on folk music by Nigerian societies and Africa as a background to the critical issuesCoordinator: Prof. Christian OnyejiEmail: Christian.onyeji@unn.edu.ng Phone: +234 7038314235 Department of MusicReceived: Fifty thousand naira11.University of Nigeria Study Group on African LiteratureFocus: The literary works of art themselves which are today part of the heritage of Africa, art works which share with other art works across the globe and diachronically over time the same basic characterizing features, whether these features have a distinctly African imprint or not. This research group will therefore not be selective about African literature, leaving out North Africa, for instance. It sees Africa, therefore, in geographical terms, and literature in universal terms.African literature is in other words where this universal form crosses with the geographically determined space called Africa.Coordinator: Rev. Fr Professor A.N. AkwanyaEmail: Phone:Department of English and Literary StudiesReceived: 0 Naira
Phone: +234 803 3949541 Department: Medical BiochemistryReceived: Fifty thousand naira only (50,000N)
Coordinator: Professor Chukwudi U. Anyanwu
Email: Phone:Department of Microbiology
Received: 0 Naira2. Biocatalysis and Environmental Health Research Group (BEHRG)Focus: Using either enzymes or whole cell microorganisms to help develop and promote environmentally friendly processes, the production of renewable and clean energies, and remediation of ecologically toxic effects of many compounds. BEHRG promotes greener alternatives to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of substances hazardous to human and environmental health.Coordinator: Dr Simeon C. EnemuorE-mail: simeon.enemuor@unn.edu.ng; Phone: +234 803 7789 633; Department of Microbiology
Received: 0 Naira3.Bio-Energy Research GroupFocus: Various biomass materials such as food and non-food crops, photoautotrophic and heterotrophic microorganisms, agro-processing wastes, timber residues, wastewater, and other waste materials will be explored for efficient production of different forms of bio-energies.Coordinator: Prof. James C. OgbonnaDepartment of Coordinator: MicrobiologyReceived: 5O Thousand Naira4.Bioprocess and Renewable EnergyFocus: Optimal exploitation of microorganisms in the advancement of bioprocesses for improved reduction in production costs and increased yields. Processes forindustrial scale production of useful microbial metabolites and bio-fuel from renewable resource.Coordinator: Dr O. C. Amadi.Email: chioma.amadi@unn.edu.ngPhone: Department of Coordinator: MicrobiologyReceived: O Naira5.DNA barcoding and Animal Biodiversity Research GroupFocus: Animal species-level identification/taxonomy, egg and larvae detection, environmental monitoring, forensics, biodiversity assessment and conservation. Establishment of DNA reference sequence libraries/signatures for all animal groups in Nigeria, policy making and industrial applicationsCoordinator: Dr G.C. OnyishiEmail: grace.onyishi@unn.edu.ng Phone: Department of Zoology &Environmental BiologyReceived: O Naira6. DRUG-RESISTANT INFECTIONS RESEARCH GROUPFocus: Surveillance studies on some of the common infectious diseases, for which drug-resistance has been documented, studying the patterns of evolution and spread of the causative pathogens and evaluating alternative strategies for the management of drug-resistant infections.Coordinator: Prof. (Mrs.) I. M. EzeonuEmail: ifeoma.ezeonu@unn.edu.ng Phone: 08037954649 Department of Coordinator: MicrobiologyReceived: 5
Attachments area
Faculty
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Numbers of active research groups
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Agriculture
|
8
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Arts
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11
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Basic Medical Sciences
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1
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Biological Sciences
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9
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Dentistry
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1
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Education
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1
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Engineering
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3
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Environmental Sciences
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5
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Health Science and Technology
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3
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Law
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1
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Medical Sciences
|
19
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
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7
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Physical Sciences
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6
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Social Sciences
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3
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Vocational and Technical Education
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2
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Veterinary Sciences
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1
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Institutes, Centres and Library
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4
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Total
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86
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