Imelda Icheji Lawrence Udoh
EMAIL: icheji@gmail.com
PHONE: +2348152378129
ADDRESS: Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Singing, sewing
POST HELD: None yet in the Academy MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2013
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: None yet in the Academy
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
SPECIALTIES: Inter-language Phonetics/Phonology
APPOINTMENTS: None yet in the Academy
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: 1. Review and development of the teaching of Language Documentation at SOAS, UNIUYO and AAUA, (sponsored by British Council), completed, 2010/2011.
2. Prime Minister’s Initiative Connect and Collaborative Programme Delivery Funding, 2010/2011 (Sponsored by British Council) Principal Nigerian Partner, completed.
3. Towards a Generic Text-To-Speech Application for African Tone Languages, 2010-2012, (sponsored by STEP-B/World Bank, 2010) Team Member.
4. Abidjan-Bielefeld-Uyo Introduction to Language Documentation (ABUILD) Project (2005-2010) Team Member.
5. TETFund IBRF Grant on “Linguistic Vitality and Endangerment: A UNESCO-scale Survey of the Akwa Ibom State Languages”, (2018)
COMMUNITY SERVICE: 1. Pioneer Member, Governing Council of the Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, 2015 – date.
2. Member, Technical Committee on Nigerian Language Policy, 2018 – date.
3. Member, Technical Committee for the Development of a National Reading Framework (NRF), 2018 – to date.
4. Co-coordinator, Language Documentation Institute, NERDC, Sheda, September, 2018 (with Professor Harrison Adéníyì).
5. Chairman, Ad Hoc National Universities’ Commission Accreditation Panel to evaluate undergraduate programmes in the Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, November, 2017.
6. Member, Ad Hoc National Universities’ Commission Accreditation Panel to evaluate undergraduate programmes in the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, June 2017.
7. Member, Ad Hoc National Universities’ Commission Accreditation Panel to evaluate undergraduate programmes in the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, November, 2016.
8. Vice President, Linguistic Association of Nigeria, 2016 – date.
9. National Secretary, Linguistic Association of Nigeria, LAN, 2004 – 2008.
10. Patron, St. Vincent de Paul Youths’ Conference, St John’s Quasi Parish, Uyo, since 2001.
11. President, Association of Akwa Ibom State Permanent Secretaries’ Wives, 1996-1998.
12. President, Board of Trustees, Fruitful Widows’ Initiative, since 2008;
13. Secretary – General, Ibom Jewels Nigeria, 2010 – date.
14. Secretary, Intercessors for Nigeria, Akwa Ibom State, 2014 – date;
15. Secretary – General, Parents’ Delight Forum, 2006 – 2014.
Biography
Imelda Udoh received her BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Calabar in 1983, 1986, and 1998. She works in the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Uyo. She was HOD between 1993 and 2013; Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts 2010-2012; Deputy Director, School of Continuing Education from 2015 – 2016. She has been an External Examiner and Assessor in many Nigerian and oversea Universities. She was a Research Visitor to SOAS, London in 1996, a Research Scholar to the UCL, London in 1999, a Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar to the UC, Berkeley, from 2001-2002. She has done extensive research on the Cross River languages of Nigeria. She has been a part of several projects like the E-MELD, Michigan State University; the Nigerian Languages Project; and the PMI2 Connect Delivery Project of the British Council for 2011. She has taken part in several NUC accreditation exercises, where she served as Chairman/Member. She was Secretary of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria and the current Vice President. She was a member of the Governing Council of the University of Uyo, from 2015 – 2017, as well as a pioneering member of the Governing Council of the Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, from 2015 – 2019. She is a DAAD alumnus and a life member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.
