Benard Ungadi Akala

To become an educational researcher capable of using research to make decisions and also a human resource manager and coordinator, capable of managing and coordinating. Dedication and commitment to helping and working with others for the benefit of the need. All these talent will be achieved through further training and working.

Pursuing full-time role that presents professional challenges and leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise.

• Research Journal of Educational Studies and Review
• Social Sciences & Humanities Open

• Trained and taught hundreds of trainees and students who are now participating in economic activities. Assisted honours and masters’ students to write educational research proposals.
• Managed and coordinated supervision of student's research projects and teaching practices.
• Carried out research and wrote research reports that were significant to diverse and numerous educational policy managers – see RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS page 3

• How can doctoral supervision be improved? Views from doctoral students in two faculties of education at South African universities., https://www.journals.ac.za/sajhe/article/view/5290, 2023
• Inclusivity and the remote doctorate supervision experience of a student with disability in a South African university., https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/ajote/article/view/7285/6891, 2023
• BRAIN TUMOUR: Telling the surgical experience laughingly., https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCX2Q2HZ, 2022
• Challenges in Doctoral Supervision in South African Universities., https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Challenges+in+Doctoral+Supervision+in+South+African+Universities&btnG=, 2021
• Pedagogies in doctoral education in South African universities. A PhD research project in the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg., https://www.proquest.com/openview/39a7185c09ee943eb5ea17d4348d1599/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y, 2020
• “I Was Just Done with Calculations…. I Realized That I Like Working with People” Understanding Why Women Abandon Careers in Mathematics., https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1079515, 2015
• “They can’t even agree!” Student conversations about ‘complexity/intricacies/variety’ in supervisor views of the PhD., https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC182, 2015
• Factors affecting resource centres in implementation of English curriculum: A case study of Uasin Gishu District., 2004
• An Investigation into the Extent to Which Job Enrichment Model of Motivation is Applicable at Moi University. A Study of Administrative Assistants in Moi University., 2002

• Collaborated with team of 2 in the researching and writing of a research paper.
• Achieved completing tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
• Supervised more than 20 students as a research supervisor.