Just like a well-designed building, a society with equal representation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields can stand strong and withstand the test of time. Ask the person sitting next to you how many Malawian women in Architecture they know….Exactly! …

Raise your hand if your current profession is what you wanted to be when you were 16. Hand raised? Good for you. Even more incredible if you are a woman raised in Malawi. To be fair, people do often end up working in their childhood-professed careers. …

Yesss! It’s another day to celebrate women. We celebrated women in STEM, last month in February on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we will celebrate every woman today and we will celebrate women this entire month. Personally, every day is Women’s Day but globally, every year, the…

Malawian Women In Science you should know If you think this is another post blowing the trumpet of Malawian women in science on International Women’s Day (IWD) then you are absolutely right. I cannot think of a better way to highlight the day than with a celebration of remarkable women…

A couple of weeks ago Facebook was fined US$5 billion over the scandal with Cambridge Analytica where Facebook user data was accessed without user consent. Breaching privacy policies. Cambridge Analytica allegedly used this data to target millions of (US) Facebook users to ‘sway’ the controversial US election in which Donald…

Air pollution and health: The Malawian context Every year, air pollution kills seven million people worldwide , that’s more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV and Aids combined. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that four million people die each year from diseases caused by cooking-related air pollution and in 2016, household…

Academic research and policy making in Malawi For centuries, a seemingly obvious question has remained unanswered: what comes first, the egg or the chicken? But another chicken-egg scenario is taking shape: What comes first? policy or research? It is widespread practice in other countries to allocate funds to research and…