Prof. Dr. Bassey Edem Antia

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsApplied Linguistics, Computer Linguistics,Public Heatlh, Healthcare Research, Social and Occupational Medicine
KeywordsContrapuntal reading, Decolonisation, Apartheid South Africa, Applied linguistics, School textbooks of history
Honours and awards

2024: Rated B1 researcher, National Research Foundation, South Africa

2017: Award for national excellence in teaching and learning of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa/Centre on Higher Education

2016: Eugen Wüster prize for outstanding achievement in research and teaching in terminology and multilingualism

2006: Georg-Forster Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, tenable at the Department of International Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Bielefeld, Germany

2002: Fellow of the Association of French-speaking Universities (AUF) for research stay tenable at the Department of Translation and Linguistics, Université de Montréal (Canada). 2002 (May – August).

1999: International INFOTERM award for outstanding achievement in applied research and development in the field of terminology. Awarded for excellent doctoral dissertation. Co-sponsors: European Commission (within the framework of its programme on Multilingual Information Society) and the European Association for Terminology

1999: Prize for excellent doctoral dissertation of the University Society of Westphalia and Lippe

1994: DAAD PhD Scholarship tenable at the University of Bielefeld

Current contact address

CountrySouth Africa
CityCape Town
InstitutionUniversity of the Western Cape
InstituteDepartment of Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Oliver RazumArbeitsgruppe 3: Epidemiologie und International Public Health, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Ulrich LaaserArbeitsgruppe 3: Epidemiologie und International Public Health, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Karin VogtAbteilung Englisch, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2006

Programme(s)

2005Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme