Rising Scholars News
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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 …