A Senior Lecturer with the Department of Communication Studies, University of Cape Coast, Dr. Wincharles Coker says passion should be the basis for Scholarly research and publications.
According to the Rhetoric Theory and Culture lecturer, researchers must prioritize passion over money and promotion in the pursuit of academic research.
He made this remark in a presentation at a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) program organized by the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), UCC branch for members of the association.
The initiative forms part of the association’s plans to strategically help members to develop great competencies in their various specialized areas of endeavor in the University’s administration.
Dr. Coker charged university administrators and all academics to be driven by a passion for solving an identified problem in their research publications than the quest for promotion and financial benefits.
He suggested saying “using some design, such as action research phenomenology or what I call the researcher as an instrument design or workplace ethnography to unravel and grapple with these problems, with a view to solving them.”
Speaking on the theme: Enhancing Professional Practice through Research Scholarly Publications and Technical Reports; Publishing Relevant Research as an Administrator, Dr. Coker indicated that people are identified by their publications.
To him, publications do not necessarily have to be for academics but, everyone must publish.
“…because you are literate, you can write, you are literate, you can speak. And therefore, people are identified through their publication. How will it feel to work in a particular place for X number of years and nobody knows what you have done in the workspace, because you’ve not written anything about that particular space you occupied for X number of years? I think that is complete injustice to yourself and the people you once served,” he continued.
Dr. Wincharles Coker therefore called on all University Administrators to have love for writing through publications.
The president of GAUA UCC branch, Felix Adu-Poku, in an interview with ATLFM NEWS, said the Continuous Professional Development program is geared towards equipping the administrators to sharpen their research skills and to boost their confidence to continue their scholarly research and publications.
According to him, the program is to help the administrators to come to terms with what they are to do in their promotions and their continuous administration of research in their work and decision-making.
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Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
