On the 6th
of April, the student supervisory team of ASSAR Ghana held an update meeting with
the ASSAR students ahead of the forthcoming ASSAR Regional West Africa Team
Meeting in Ghana schedule for the 28-29th April 2016.
The meeting
was held to receive updates on the progress of their work, and also share their
challenges and the identifiable gaps for shaping ASSAR Ghana’s future research
themes. It was also meant to allow the supervisors and the rest of the Team to
make suggestions that would enhance the students’ work.
All the ASSAR
students (4 Masters Students and 2 PhD Candidates) were present to give updates
on their work. Each student made about 15 minutes Power Point presentation
indicating the status of their research projects, preliminary findings and what
challenges were encountered in the course of the study.
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| Stephen Omari (PhD candidate) giving updates at the meeting |
The updates
revealed that all the Mphil students have completed data collection, completed
data analysis (or are near completing) while the PhD Candidates are currently
on field undertaking data collection.
Professor
Chris Gordon, the PI of the of the ASSAR project who is also a supervisor to a
number of the students in his general remarks to the students reiterated the
need for them to; complete their works and put together the initial draft by the end of April, and build confidence and improve their presentation skills.
 Professor Gordon explaining a point to the Mphil students |
The
students also enumerated a number of challenges they encounter during their
data collection activities. Some of these challenges as enumerated include but
are not limited to:
The
challenges and experiences in the field activities of students are expected to
be collated into a guideline or manual that would inform future ASSAR students
on some basic field and course requirements for the ASSAR project.
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| Group photo of participants at the meeting |
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