The Department of History at the University of Cape Coast has launched its departmental Post-Graduate Research Commons that will provide a working space and resource to assist post-graduate students in their research.
The launch also saw the reopening of the Department’s refurbished reading room for undergraduates which is purposed to provide space and a workstation to assist undergraduates in their assignments and research.
The Head of the History Department, Prof. De-Valera Botchway launched the two facilities and stressed that they will support academic work and provide the right tools needed for quality research in the department and in the University as a whole.
Speaking with ATLFM NEWS at the sidelines of the event, Prof Botchway said “The research commons has been established to help our graduates, that is, our masters and Ph.D. students to have an exclusive space that will permit them to meet, interact, share knowledge in a comfortable mood, sit, to share drinks and be able to produce knowledge as such books, articles, thesis. So yes I’m absolutely in support of knowledge production.”
On his part, the provost for the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Prof. Francis Eric Amuquandoh, highlighting the need for research, indicated that research helps move the frontier of knowledge forward and helps impact society.
He appealed to all who will use the facilities to use them wisely so that others will also benefit from it to enhance proper research.
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Source: Richard Osei Korankye & Abigail Adu/ATLFMNEWS
