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Impacts of COVID-19 economically, emotionally and socially
Florence Mwaba is a lecturer at the University of Zambia and a PhD student researching hematology and infectious diseases of humans and animals. She shares her experiences of research during …
Researchers during COVID-19, ‘fall forward’ and not ‘fall back’
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 …
COVID-19 with many puzzles
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 …
COVID-19: The reality for a Zambian graduate student
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 …
COVID-19 and fragile countries
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 …
COVID-19, a double-edged sword!
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 …
Whither to with COVID-19? The agony of a Zimbabwean graduate candidate
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 …
Fieldwork paused but opportunities for online learning
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 …
New norms, long lockdown
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 …
7 tips for writing an introduction to a paper
You have done all your background reading and identified some interesting past research to set the context for your research but how do you present it? Writing an introduction to …