Dr. Edward Owusu has been promoted from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics by the Governing Council of the Sunyani Technical University. The approval and subsequent promotion was made during the Governing Council’s 23rd Regular Meeting held on Friday June 16, 2023.
The promotion takes retrospective effect, from January 1, 2022.
A statement signed by the Registrar, S.A. Obour, said the Governing Council and the Management of the University congratulated and wished Prof. Edward Owusu well on his promotion.
Dr. Owusu becomes the first academic to achieve an associate professorial rank in the Department of Communication Studies at Sunyani Technical University.
Prof. Owusu was promoted to the rank of Lecturer in 2014, and again promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer in 2017 by dint of hard work.
He has served on several ad hoc and standing committees of the university as Chairman and Member.
He has also held leadership roles as the Dean of School of Graduate Studies, Research and Development, and the Director for Quality Assurance and Academic Planning. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Communication Studies.
Prof. Owusu has 66 publications in peer-reviewed outlets to his credit. These include 51 journal articles, 5 book reviews, 3 books, 1 book chapter, 4 poems and 2 preprints.
Since he joined the university in 2012, he has deepened its visibility by presenting research papers at some domestic and international conferences held in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Prof. Owusu is an Editorial Board Member of several journals in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. He is a member of the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG, GH).
Prof. Owusu holds a Ph.D., an MPhil, and an MA in TESL from the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon. He also holds an MBA from KNUST, and a B.Ed. from the then-University of Education, Kumasi Campus (now AAMUSTED).
As an adjunct member of Girne American University, Cyprus; IDL-KNUST; and the Christian Service University College; Prof Owusu has supervised 1 Ph.D. thesis, 10 MPhil theses, 18 M.Sc. theses and over 60 first-degree project works.
Presently, he is the LOC Chairman for VCTUG’s Applied Research Conference of Technical Universities in Ghana (ARCTUG), which is held biennially, with the next edition (ARCTUG, 2024) scheduled for May 2024 to be hosted by the Sunyani Technical University.
As a gospel recording artiste, he has 2 albums and 7 singles to his credit. As a musician, he is the main keyboardist, worship leader, and the Music Pastor of WordSprings City Church, Kumasi.
Prof. Owusu is married with three children.
