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Teresa Mastin PhD

Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs at Michigan State University, Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University.

Research interests: Health Communication, Media Advocacy, Content Analysis, Sustained Dialogue, Mass Communication.

Teresa Mastin is Michigan State University’s Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for faculty and academic staff affairs. In this role she is responsible for envisioning, leading and implementing the university’s strategic commitment and priority to advance faculty and academic staff success in addition to fostering an academic climate of respect, care, diversity, equity and inclusion at the university.

Previous to this role, Mastin served as the interim dean of MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences, or ComArtSci. While in that role, she focused on fostering a college culture of communication, connection and celebration; preparing the ComArtSci landscape for the smooth onboarding of its incoming dean; and encouraging reflection on what it means to be a 21st-century land-grant institution. Prior to stepping into the role of interim dean, Mastin served as a professor and chairperson for the Department of Advertising and Public Relations in ComArtSci. She earned her doctorate in mass media from MSU, her master’s in public relations from California State University, Fullerton, and her bachelor’s in theology/liberal arts from Ambassador College.

Associate Professor and Head of Distance Education Department, School of Continuing and Distance Education, College of Education

Research interests: Adult learning, Open Distance Learning, Inclusive Education

Samuel Amponsah is an Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working at all levels of education in Ghana and South Africa. He holds a Doctor of Education (DEd) degree in curriculum studies from the University of South Africa. Amponsah currently heads the University of Ghana Distance Education Department. His skills and expertise are anchored in: Teaching and Learning, Pedagogy and Education, E-learning, Collaborative learning, Lifelong Learning, Distance Learning and Online Learning.

Website: https://scde.ug.edu.gh/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4303-4863

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel-Amponsah-3

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-amponsah-a0a255a1/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NwBUD_MAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: samponsah@ug.edu.gh

Prof Pineteh E. Angu

Associate Professor and Head, Academic Literacy, University of Pretoria, SA

Research interests: Academic Literacies and Narrative Studies, migrant narratives, multilingualism, academic literacies, African transnational migration, xenophobia and social exclusion as well as language and communication.

Before joining the University of Pretoria, Prof Angu was a permanent academic staff member at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, where he coordinated language and communication support across the Faculty of Informatics and Design. Prior to his appointment as Language Coordinator, he lectured Advanced Communication Skills, Language and Communication, English for Public Relations and Research Methodology. At CPUT, Prof Angu served on several faculty and institutional committees including Senate Language Committee, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty Ethics Committee, and Faculty Board Executive. He also served on conference organising committees notably African Languages Association of South Africa (ALASA) and Education Association of South Africa (EASA). As the Faculty Language Coordinator and member of the Senate Language Committee, he played a key role in implementing the University’s Language

Responsibilities: As the Director of the Unit for Academic Literacy, Prof Angu is responsible for strategic planning as well as management of permanent and temporary staff, finances, teaching and learning, research and administrative processes. He is responsible for developing academic materials and coordinating academic modules offered by the Unit.

Research Highlights: Prof Angu is a member of the editorial board of Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management and African Human Mobility Review. He is also a peer reviewer for Studies in Higher Education, Computer Assisted Language Learning and Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Contact details: pineteh.angu@up.ac.za

Sub-Themes

but are not limited to:

A. Communication for empowerment and sustainable development in institutions and organizations

1.    Media
2.    Marginalized groups
3.    Cultural groups
4.    Religion
5.    Politics
6.    Social
7.    Gender
8.    Education
9.    Health

B. Contemporary and emerging methodological issues in academic and professional communication research

1. Research methodologies in academic and professional communication
2. Ethical issues in academic and professional communication

C. Interdisciplinary perspectives in academic and professional communication

1.    Business and Entrepreneurship
2.    Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences
3.    Health and Medicine
4.    Science and Engineering

D. Contemporary issues in language education and applied linguistics

1.    Language Planning and Policy
2.    Leadership issues
3.    Evaluation and Assessment
4.    Outcome-based Learning
5.    Teaching/Learning Theories and Models
6.    Educational Transitions
7.    Linguistic Identities (Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, and trans-language)
8.    English for Academic Purposes
9.    English for Specific Purposes
10.    Knowledge-based economy
11.    Indigenous knowledge

E. Discourse perspectives in academic and professional communication

1.    Persona
2.    Identity
3.    Ideologies
4.    Power
5.    Representation

F. ICT in the academic and professional space

1.    Blended teaching and e-Learning
2.    Mobile technologies and applications
3.    Social media in academic and professional communication
4.    Technology and teacher education
5.    Multimodality, Multiliteracies
6.    New media technologies and emerging literacies
7.    Information literacies
8.    Artificial intelligence in academic and professional contexts

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