Category: Sistory
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Sistory Ep. 8
Tessa Barry, PhD in Agriculture Extension with a focus on Agri-Entrepreneurship, Gender and Food Security – The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago – 2013 – 2018I became a doctoral candidate at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad, in September of 2013. This was one…
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Sistory Ep. 7
Mumbi Maria Wachira, PhD in Management (Accounting), Institute of Public Finance, Fiscal Law and Law and Economics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2018I was a doctoral candidate at the University of St. Gallen between 2015 and 2018. While I would like to say that my decision to study abroad was planned in advance, it was…
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Sistory Ep. 6
Locardia Shayamunda, PhD in Silviculture and Rural Development at the faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, 2020Working for an International Development Agency, there were many questions regarding implementation of projects, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability that could not be answered at workshops, seminars, and meetings. I then felt such questions would best be…
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Sistory Ep. 5
Azza Mustafa, PhD in Anthropology at BIGSAS – University of Bayreuth, 2021In this article, I want to reflect on my PhD experience of doing research abroad. I will be focusing on: How I chose my research topic and how I ended up doing research on Africa in Germany, what my main challenges were regarding doing…
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Sistory Ep. 4
Dr. Su Lyn Corcoran, PhD in Education – Street-connected young people and inclusive education, University of Manchester, 2016My journey through higher education can be described as full of stops and starts, with adventures into teaching and education in between. This is partly because I am interested in so many things (one of the advantages of an ADD*…
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Sistory Ep. 3
Rachel Muchira, PhD in Linguistics – Didactics of German as a Foreign Language, Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig, 2019I graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree in German language and English Literature from Kenyatta University and thereafter pursued an M.A in German Studies at the University of Nairobi. I then joined the Moi University faculty as an Assistant Lecturer for…
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Sistory Ep. 2
Rukia Bakari, PhD Women, Peace and Security, Faculty of History, Arts and Area Studies – Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, 2017-2021I relocated with my family to Dakar, Senegal, from Nairobi, Kenya in 2011. Being an Anglophone speaker, it was a challenge to settle in a Francophone environment. Looking for work with my limited working French…
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Sistory Ep. 1
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, PhD Global Studies, Uni Leipzig 2012-18For my Master thesis in the dual-diploma Erasmus Mundus Global Studies (EMGS) program, which I did in Roskilde (Denmark) and Wroclaw (Poland), I had written about cooperation between the states of Mozambique and Brazil (my birthplace). The idea had stemmed from interacting over the summer in Geneva…
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