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The perks of remote documentation
In the latest in our series of blog posts from researchers about the effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on their research, Sairana Ahsan, a public health professional in Bangladesh, discusses the ...
Read more... | CommentsThings to think about if you are invited to join a journal editorial board
Recently a member of the AuthorAID community asked INASP's Sian Harris for advice about responding to an invitation to join the editorial board of a journal. She shares her response here.
Read more... | CommentsFake news and misinformation in the COVID-19 era
Adaora C. Obuezie from Nigeria is a Librarian, an Educator and a PhD student of Library and Information Science. She is concerned with the indiscriminate peddling of fake news and misinformation ...
Read more... | CommentsA Congratulations—and a Reminder of a Resource
Greetings again. Some of you may know AuthorAID community member Thomas Annesley. Dr. Annesley is now professor emeritus of clinical chemistry at the University of Michigan, USA. Since 2007 ...
Read more... | CommentsFrom fighting misinformation to self-improvement during COVID-19
Umar Faruk Apord Karim is a nutritionist from Ghana. He discusses the importance of fighting misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic. He also writes about taking the opportunity to learn new ...
Read more... | CommentsImpacts 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 ...
Read more... | CommentsResearchers 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 ...
Read more... | CommentsCOVID-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 ...
Read more... | CommentsCOVID-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 ...
Read more... | CommentsCOVID-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 ...
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