On February 17, 2023, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) held a seminar for its senior members academic. The event was facilitated by the Centre for Capacity Building and Innovation, KNUST.

Prof. George M. Bob-Milliar, Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Studies and also Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, (CeCASt) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CoHSS), has been awarded a grant by the Danish Independent Research Fund. The Research Grant was awarded to fund a research project entitled Environmental Crime and Illegal Ecologies (ILLECO), led by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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The dean of the faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Eugenia Amporfu has commissioned the new faculty boardroom.

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The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) held a policy dialogue to discuss the strategic health purchasing in Ghana in December 2021. The dialogue sought to bring together major stakeholders in the delivery of health services as well as experts in academia and policy formulation. These major stakeholders were from the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, the National Health Insurance Agency, the Private Health Facilities of Ghana, and the Christian Health and Association of Ghana.

Four Social Scientists from the Faculty of Social Sciences have won research funds worth one hundred and seventeen thousand, nine hundred and fifty Ghana cedis (GHC 117,950.00) in total from the 6th KNUST Research Fund Awards (KReF). The four lecturers were among a total of twenty-nine successful applicants from the whole university.

Four Social Scientists from the Faculty of Social Sciences have won research funds worth one hundred and seventy-eight thousand, six hundred and forty-five Ghana cedis (GHC 117,950.00) in total from the 6th KNUST Research Fund Awards (KReF). The four lecturers were among a total of twenty-nine successful applicants from the whole university.

The London-based Royal African Society (RAS) has appointed Prof. George M. Bob-Milliar as the new editor for its flagship journal.  The “African Affairs” is the most prestigious and oldest African Studies journal. Prof. Bob-Milliar, an Associated Professor and the Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, becoming the second African/Ghanaian to edit the 120-year-old mainstream international journal which is published by Oxford University Press.