By Fiona Ngarachu BRECcIA’s Kenya team organised virtual and face to face sessions under the BRECcIA 2020 hybrid policy summer school, as did our Malawian and Ghanaian counterparts. The Kenya summer school was organised with both face to face and virtual sessions, with virtual sessions covering issues around writing policy …
By Gertrude Owusu and Prosper Adiku The Science to Policy workshop was organised by the BRECcIA Ghana project team as part of its annual Summer School events for the year 2020, in Kamas. The workshop was aimed at interacting with key national level stakeholders involved in policy and decision making …
By Henry Hunga The Malawi 2020 policy Summer School was a success, and is now the second Summer School to have been held there. BRECcIA’s first Summer School was held in the second week of July 2019 in localities near Lilongwe, Malawi. The objective then was to train Early Career …
BRECcIA held its first Summer School in July in two villages in Malawi – Chinsamba and Chankhuntha – both close to Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. It brought together early career researchers (mainly PhD students and post-docs) from the wide range of disciplines and institutions within BRECcIA to provide experiential interdisciplinary training on …
Tendai Polite Chibarabada, WaterNet The BRECcIA Summer School was an unmeasurable experience that words cannot simply describe. For myself, it was the first time to meet all the team members which was really great to put faces to names. Malawi was the perfect location to conduct the Summer School in …
Henry Hunga The preparations towards the first Summer School started way back in January 2019. I had just joined the BRECcIA project team in Malawi and was still grasping the detail. This was like getting back into research after a considerable time in extension and outreach. Ideas kept floating on …
– Lessons learned from BRECcIA Summer School in Malawi Chengxiu Li, University of Southampton When the plane landed in Lilongwe airport at 12:20 on 7th July 2019, I was very excited but also nervous on my summer school journey organised by project BRECcIA from the University of Southampton and the …
