Research Areas

Gender and Education,Inclusive Education,Evaluation of Education policies and programs/Interventions,Access, Quality and Relevance of Education, Teacher Education and Professional Development,

Profile

Mrs. Lizzie W. Chiwaula holds a Master’s Degree in International studies focusing on Education development and Management obtained from the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan in 2008 and a Bachelor’s degree in Education with credit from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College in 1999. She has been a Research Fellow at the University of Malawi’s Centre for Educational Research and Training (CERT) since 2005. While working as a research Fellow, she has held the position of Acting Deputy Director for CERT between 2012 and 2014. She has vast experience in designing and conducting both quantitative and qualitative research and consultancy projects in education. She has worked with different international and local organizations, international institutions of higher learning such as University of Stirling, University Sussex and University of London of the UK and Hiroshima University of Japan. In higher education, her research focused on the evaluation of World Banks’ skills development project in Malawi and access to higher education through diploma programs. In primary and secondary education, she has conducted evaluations of education interventions on the National Numeracy programme, National Reading programme, Child Friendly schooling, school meals programme, Nutrition and access to primary school and other research on Education and Covid-19, Inclusive education, school dropout, school grants, pupil absenteeism, Learner Cantered Education (LCE), Monitoring Learning Achievements, Scale-up of Education interventions and Girls education among others. She has also worked as a World Bank Short-Term Education consultant in different projects including the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project (MESIP) and Equity and Quality Learning at Secondary Education (EQUALS) projects in 2017/18. She has also worked as a World Bank research consultant the for the higher education skills development and the Malawi Public Expenditure Review in education. She is currently a member of the National Committee on Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (NCRSH), under the National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) and also member of the board of trustees for a local Non-Governmental Organization called Creative Centre for Community Mobilization (CRECCOM).

Publications

• Journal Article
  Chiwaula L.W., Kadzamira E.S. & Meke E.S. (2021) The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Education in Malawi: Exploring Policy Responses and Practices, Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Vol.24-2, 2021, pp.61-76. CICE Hiroshima University. (2021)
  https://cice.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/05-Lizzie-W.-Chiwaula.pdf

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• Journal Article
  Chikhungu L., Kadzamila E., Chiwaula L., & Meke E. (2020) Tackling girls dropping out of school in Malawi: Is improving household socio-economic status the solution? International Journal of Educational Research 103 (2020) 101578 (2020)
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883035519325728

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• Journal Article
  Nampota D. & Chiwaula L. (2013) Exploring the processes and outputs of school grants: the case for Direct Support to Schools in Malawi. Journal of International Cooperation and Development, 15 (3) 205-220. (2013)
  https://cice.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/publications/15-3/15-3-12.pdf

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• Journal Article
  Kunje D., & Chiwaula L. (2010) Action Research for human development and progress in primary schools in Zomba, Malawi. Malawi Journal of Education and Development, 3, 15-33. (2010)
  

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