Fellow in Focus: Professor Bassey Edem Antia in Conversation with Professor Lorna Carson

Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Bassey Edem Antia (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) in conversation with Professor Lorna Carson (School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD). 

Bassey Edem Antia is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has an extensive network of collaborators globally and is a mentor to graduate students and early career academics in several countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Uganda, Germany, Vietnam and the USA. He also advises Vice-Chancellors and other university leaders across Africa.

He is a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation, South Africa. He has received a number of awards, including the Eugen Wüster prize for outstanding achievement in research and teaching in terminology and multilingualism (2017); Award for excellence in teaching and learning of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa/Centre on Higher Education (2017); Institutional teaching excellence award of the University of the Western Cape (2017); Teaching excellence award of the Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape (2017).

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