Oludayo Tade, a criminologist and sociologist who teaches at the University of Ibadan, has won the 2021 Science Communication Award.

A statement on Wednesday in Ibadan said the Conversation Africa, a research-based communication outfit based in South Africa, presented the award.

The award is the Conversation Africa’s second annual West Africa Science Communication Awards, an event that honours researchers and partner universities based on the number of contributions and readership generated by their research.

Mr Tade, who had won the inaugural award in 2020 for making the highest contributions to science communications, also retained the same position in 2021.

In the statement, Adejuwon Soyinka, the West Africa regional editor of Conversation Africa, explained that the organisation was already in partnership with 73 institutions.

Mr Soyinka added that the organisation had embarked on training to ensure that research findings are communicated to policy actors and non-academic audiences to impact society beyond the academic community.

“Our mission is to mainstream the voices of scientists and support science communication activities. We do this by working with academics and researchers, who themselves write and provide fact/evidence/research-based analytical articles on various societal issues and articles about their research findings as well,” said Mr Soyinka.

Also, the duo of Feyisitan Ijimakinwa and Janet Ogundairo won the most read article from the University of Ibadan.

The statement further disclosed that Lanre Ikuteyijo and Akin Akinyemi of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Osun, were awarded the most contribution and most-read piece, respectively.

Scholars from the University of Lagos, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, University of Ghana Legon and the University of Cape Coast were also awarded.

(NAN)