Thursday 7 January 2021

2011-2020: Ten Years Research Review

 2011-2020 Research Review by Sesan Michael JOHNSON


With all modesty and Thanksgiving, my research trajectories in the last ten years cut across the following research and training institutions among others:


1. French Institute for Research in Africa, IFRA Ibadan as Research Fellow. Where I co-authored a research article on Debunking the Myths on Violence in Nigeria. I have also been part of many research training under the auspices of IFRA.


2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA - winning the 2018 Brian Bertoti - International Scholarship Award for Innovation in Historical Scholarship in the History of Public Health.


3. The Royal College of Physicians of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK emerging as one of the three finalists for 2019 McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research. I gave an Award Talk on Cholera as an epidemic in Ibadan, Nigeria.


4. University of Manchester, UK. On June 28 2019,  served as a panelist and gave a talk on a paper titled "Ibadan Water Bodies as Carriers and Transmitters of Disease: Historicising Cholera Epidemics in Ibadan, 1970-1996" during a conference tagged as  "Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean, Science, Medicine and Technology".


5. Oxford-Ife Conference (Oxford University and Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria). In 2016, alongside other early career scholars I gave a talk on a Call for History of Medicine Research in Nigeria.


6. Cambridge University. In September 2016, I actively participated in the Cambridge Schools Conference held at Homerton College.


7. Toyin Fálọlá International Conference (TOFAC) held at Redeemer University, Ede, Nigeria where I presented three history papers.


8. Toyin Fálọlá @ 60 Conference held at University of Ibadan in 2018 where I presented a paper on History of Science in Africa.


9. Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. I presented Term Papers and Research Proposals at the Department of History.

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