This is an extension of my April blog contribution ‘The ongoing tale of finishing up my PhD’. Even though I found the research and write-up of my PhD thesis enjoyable and its challenges eventually vitalising, the experience was overshadowed by the ardu…
If you think about it, people are achieving all time the time. They are just not always achieving ‘what they set their minds to’. This is so me! Go on and do this, then that, achieve! Achieve! Achieve! That is all I ever think. How about taking a secon…
I have been reading a book called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, written by Yuval Noah Harari. As the title suggests, the author paints a picture of typical human behaviour, skill, and intelligence through time. During the period in which human…
Can you recall the last time you listened to a presentation or lecture for two and a half hours, and still wished it could last longer? Honestly… I cannot either. After Albert Einstein’s two-and-a-half-hour presentation during his tour in Japan, the au…
I was walking with my dog this morning and listening to one of Simon Sinek’s podcasts. Among the amazing things he usually says, he described the most profound thing. When he was on a mission worrying about himself and only him, concerned about his cha…
I was on a phone call the other day and my aunt jokingly asked me the question – “why don’t you and your colleagues there in pharmacology find the cure to this COVID-19 pandemic?” Well, I giggled a little, but her question was justified to an extent. T…
Student teacher relationship: unlocking students’ potential We often think of ourselves through a binary lens. We think of ourselves as a group on the other side of the fence to another discrete group. Unaware, we create imaginary fences to separate ou…
My past blog posts have covered the topics of the lengthy wait for my PhD outcome, having to undergo the process of revising and resubmitting my thesis, and the challenges in looking for work after submission. I want to use this month’s blog talk…
I was asked by my supervisor Prof. Jen Fitchett to present at the University College London (UCL)- University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) climate workshop during May 2021. I was excited because she had planned for me to demonstrate to a live audience h…
Posted from The Conversation Africa Authored by Prof Willie Chinyamurindi, SAYAS Co-Chair 2021 Connecting African universities to high speed internet can help drive the development of digital skills and capabilities. This would also benefit s…
