Professor Hammond, Christiana

Christiana Hammond is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics. Professor Hammond has published widely on identity studies, pragmatics and intercultural communication including studies on politeness, metadiscourse, genre analysis, online dating, onomastics, cyber throlling and hate speech, and cultural shock and navigation process among others. She has served as a plenary and has presented scholarly papers at local and international conferences. Her academic publications include book chapters, chapters in edited Her publications could be accessed from these academic networks: ORCID, Researchgate, SAGE, and Academia.com among others. She is also a gender advocate and a Public Speaker.

Her doctoral thesis primarily examined how speakers of some selected Ghanaian languages construct their identities in a multi-cultural higher educational institution (HEI) in Ghana. The study revealed that speakers of the selected Ghanaian languages construct two main kinds of identities: public and private and both strands are constructed in identification processes including proximity to a particular culture, massive local presence, hegemonic outlook, de-ethicisation, identity negotiation and self-branding in virtual spaces among others.

She has worked on a number of projects for her country including being a member of a team tasked to conduct a situational analysis and curriculum mapping of educational materials in basic schools in Ghana to determine the prevalence of the ESD indicators and the 2030 SDG Learning Objectives in Ghana’s Education Policy Documents and Curriculum respectively. The project is sponsored by the Global School Programme, Millennium Promise Alliance (UNESCO) and the Ministry of Education, Ghana. She is currently a member of a team from the University of Education, Winneba-Ghana working the C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) project on Solid Waste Source Separation and Composting for Behavioural Change in the city of Accra. This CFF project is implemented by GIZ, and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and funded by the Government of the United Kingdom (FCDO), the German  Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the  Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).