Prof. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Associate Professor


Dept: History and Political Studies
New Faculty of Social Science Building, FF 21

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Research Areas/Interests

Applied History, Political History, Medical Humanities, Health Social Sciences, Environment, History of Science and Technology, History Education, Sec...~more


Positions Held & Hold

 

University

i. Head of Department: Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST (August 2019 to December 31, 2021). 

ii. Examinations Officer: Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST (Nov 2016- Aug 2018). 

iii. Reviewer: Proposal for KNUST Research Fund (KReF) (5 Feb 2021). (SD 3)

iv. Member: Committee on Facilities and Sanitation, Faculty of Social Sciences, KNUST (Sep 01 2019 to Aug 31 2020).

v. Resource Person: Provided questions and answers for SRC TEK SMARTEST 2020 Quiz Programme held on 6th March 2020 (13 May 2020). 

vi. Mentor: Mentor to Dr. Michael Nimoh, Lecturer at the Department of History and Political Studies (Effective Aug 01, 2020).

vii. Member: Committee to organize employment forum for final year students of the Faculty of Social Sciences (11 April 2019).

viii. Member: Faculty of Social Sciences Research and Publications Committee (October 01, 2018- Sept 30, 2019).

ix. Chairman: Research and Publications Committee of the Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST (21 Jan 2019).

x. Chairman: Special team to compile the History of Faculty of Social Sciences (Oct 04, 2019).

xi. Member: Research Strategic Plan Sub-Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences (Jan 21, 2019).

xii. Resource Person: SRC Parliamentary Council, KNUST Leadership seminar (23 Feb, 2019). 

xiii. Member: Projects and Development Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, KNUST (2016 to 2018).

xiv. Patron: Historical Society of KNUST (2012 to 2018). (SD 14) xv. Patron: Social Sciences Christian Fellowship, KNUST (2019 to present)

xvi. Moderator: Examinations questions submitted to the University by Heritage Christian College, an Affiliate of KNUST for HIST 257, HIST 156 and HIST 151 (2018).

National

i. Member: Research and Publications Committee: Historical Society of Ghana Conference (2019).

ii. Head of Programmes: Research and Educational Facilitator- Association of Global Citizens (AGC-GHANA) (2014 to present).

iii. Resource Person: Staff recruitment interview, St. Joseph’s College of Education (April 14, 2021) 

iv. Resource Person: National Training Workshop for Teachers of History (May 05 – 07, 2021).

v. Resource Person: History Teachers Maiden Training Workshop (Aug 1-2, 2018 in Kumasi). 

vi. Coordinator: Council for Poverty Alleviation, Local Governance and Sustainable Development (CoPALGSD-GHANA) (2015 to present).

vii. Resource Person: Focal Person of KNUST on the Inter-Ministerial Committee meeting to develop and shape Ghana’s interest abroad (April 14, 2021) (SD 23)

viii. Facilitator: Subject based workshop, Faculty of Educational Studies, KNUST. Facilitate History Programme for Colleges of Education affiliated to KNUST (May 03, 2021) 

ix. Moderator: Postgraduate Diploma in Political Leadership Programme at the Accra Business School (Aug 01, 2018- July 31, 2020)

x. Resource Person (University Representative): National Consultation for the Evaluation of ECOWAS Post 2020 Vision Workshop in Kumasi (17th and 18th Jan, 2020)

xi. Resource Person: World Bank Group (WBG), Country Partnership Framework (CPF) of Ghana held in Kumasi (March 20, 2020)

xii. External Examiner: Examined the PhD thesis of Martha Alibah, University of Ghana (Dec 17, 2020). (SD 28)

xiii. External Examiner: Examined the MPhil thesis of Henry Amankwaatia, University of Cape Coast (Dec 02, 2020). 

xiv. External Examiner: Examined the PhD thesis of Isaac Kyere, University of Cape Coast (April 20 2021)

xv. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Dr. Nana Yaw Boampong Sapong to the rank of senior lecturer, University of Ghana (Nov 06 2020).

xvi. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Dr. Amoako Gyampah to the rank of senior lecturer, University of Education, Winneba (17 Oct 2019).

xvii. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Dr. Ebenezer Teye Amanor-Lartey to the rank of senior lecturer, University of Education, Winneba (27 Aug 2019).

xviii. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Mrs. Anitha Oforiwah AduBoahen to senior lecturer, University of Education, Winneba (9 May 2019). 

xix. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Mr. Eric Sakyi Nketiah to the rank of senior lecturer, University of Education, Winneba (Nov 8, 2018).

xx. External Assessor: Assessed the promotion documents of Dr Philip Oti-Agyen, University of Education, Winneba (June 12, 2018).

xxi. Guest Speaker: Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) National Congress, KNUST, Kumasi, “Harmonizing Standards in Ghanaian Tertiary Education System: Challenges and Implication”. Spoke on the topic: “Free Senior High School and Quality University Education: The Role of the University Teacher” (October 2019). 

International

i. Resource Person: Britain, Africa and the Caribbean: Teaching the Truth organised by the Royal African Society on Jul 30 2020 at zoom.

ii. Moderator and Chairman: African American relations with Ghana One-Day Student Leadership Conference 2019-sponsored by Ramapo College of New Jersey and KNUST (19 March, 2019)

iii. Guest Speaker: “Changing Landscape of Mission Medicine and Hospitals in Africa up to the Twenty-First Century” Online Research Seminar Series – West African History organised by IFRA-Nigeria (May 6 2021) 

iv. Senior Editor: Cogent Arts and Humanities, History (2020 to present).

v. Academic Editor: Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science

vi. Article Editor: SAGE Open

vii. Editorial Board Member: African Journal of Development Studies (formerly AFFRIKA: Journal of Politics, Economics and Society (2020 to present)

viii. Collaborator: WASSCE History Textbook Project: Kings College, London; Arts Sciences Research (2016 to March 2018).

ix. Reviewer: BMC Public Health (Dec 2, 2020).

x. Reviewer: BMC Public Health (Feb 6, 2021).

xi. Reviewer: Journal of African and Asian Studies (Feb 8, 2021). 

xii. Reviewer: International Sociology (June 12, 2019).

xiii. Reviewer: Cogent Social Science (Aug 1, 2018).

xiv. Reviewer: Journal of West African History (June 25, 2018).

xv. Reviewer: Democratization (April 11, 2018).

xvi. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (August 24, 2018).

xvii. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (December 19, 2018). 

xviii. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (February 11, 2019).

xix. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (June 12, 2019).

xx. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (March 31, 2019).

xxi. Reviewer: Global Pediatric Health (April 18, 2019).

xxii. Reviewer: Women and Health (January 5, 2019).

xxiii. Reviewer: SAGE Open (October 17, 2018).

xxiv. Reviewer: SAGE Open (April 17, 2020).

xxv. Reviewer: SAGE Open (February 13, 2021). 

xxvi. Reviewer: Cogent Psychology (October 27, 2020).

xxvii. Reviewer: Economies (August 7, 2018). 

xxviii. Reviewer: African Journal of Development Studies (formerly AFFRIKA: Journal of Politics, Economics and Society (April 12, 2021)

xxix. Reviewer: African Journal of Development Studies (formerly AFFRIKA: Journal of Politics, Economics and Society (May 7, 2021) 

xxx. Reviewer: RIMCIS: International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences (May 24, 2020) (SD 58) xxxi. Reviewer: Christian Journal for Global Health (October 6, 2020) (SD 59)


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