Rising Scholars News

Eric Ngang is a social environmentalist from Cameroon, currently pursuing a PhD in law at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research area is environmental law with a special interest …

Oswald Zion is a Community Health Professional from Nigeria. He reveals some of the questions that the COVID-19 is bringing to his research and discusses the importance of social science …

Lumbuka Kaunda is a neuroscience graduate student at the University of Zambia. She shares the emotional impact that the unfolding news of the COVID-19 pandemic has had on her and …

The fifth in our series of researcher challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic comes from Courage C Dzvukamanja in Zimbabwe, a PhD Student at Africa University College of Business, Peace, Leadership and …

In our fourth post in the series of the impact of COVID-19 on researchers, Chiedza Angela Hari, an environmental management researcher from Zimbabwe, shares the positives and negatives of the …

More Panganayi is a graduate candidate at the Centre for Peace, Business and Leadership at Africa University, Zimbabwe, with research interests in peace, human security, good governance, African politics and …

The second post in our series about researcher experiences in light of COVID-19 comes from Mildred Zulu, a lecturer, researcher and PhD student from the University of Zambia with research …

In this series, postgraduate students and researchers from around the world share the new challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing for their research and give advice to other researchers …

Samuel Yigzaw, Adetoun Oyelude, Al-Kassim Hassan Mohammed and Atebeh Lekah are four participants from AuthorAID’s recent MOOC on research communication. In this post, they share some of the useful lessons …

Guest post by Dr Geraldine Matolla, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Eldoret, Kenya