Dr Mercy Adzo Klugah is a Lecturer in the Department of General and Liberal Studies, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana, where she teaches African Studies.
EDUCATION
She had her tertiary education at the University of Ghana (Ph.D in African Studies) and the University of Cape Coast (M. Phil. in Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics; Bachelor of Education in Arts).
WORK EXPERIENCE
Prior to her appointment at UHAS, Dr Klugah served as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics, University of Cape Coast, for her National Service in 2009. She was later employed as a Senior Research Assistant from 2010 to 2015 in the same department. Following a request from the National Service Secretariat, Dr Klugah served as a Personal Assistant for the Chairman of the National Service Secretariat in 2010. Between 2017 and 2019, she was appointed Graduate Assistant at the Language, Literature and Drama Section of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon.
Dr Klugah was a Young LeidenASA Visiting PhD Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands, from September – November 2018. She is also a member of the Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG); the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA); and the West African Linguistics Association. She is also a freelance reviewer for journals including the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL), and the Ghana Journal of Linguistics.
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH OUTPUT
Her research interests span Ewe linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Language use in Healthcare Delivery; Landscape and Place Name Studies; and Language and Conflict Resolution. Working with primary data collected using ethnographic methods, Dr Mercy Klugah is concerned about how language encodes and reflects the culture and cognitive processes underlying the users’ conceptualisation of reality. In recent times she has researched topics such as ‘Investigating language Barriers in Healthcare’; ‘Language as a Socio-cultural Tool in Sustainable Development’; ‘Investigating Language Barriers in Psychiatric Care in Ghana; and Landscape Terms, Place Names and Spatial Language in Asogli Ewe’.