There is very little research going on at our institutions of higher learning: Will lecturers publish or perish?

There is very little research going on at our institutions of higher learning, admit top academics in the country.

Terry Wambui, 26, is a PhD student at Kisii University, Nairobi campus, and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) where she teaches Development Studies. Wambui, who also runs a youth foundation, is a self-declared research lover. She plunged into active research in 2013 when she was 22, always finding time to carry out research for her postgraduate studies, amid her demanding jobs and social life commitments.

“I had just completed a six-month internship at the then Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports when the idea to pursue research in youth-related issues hit me,” says Wambui, the founder of Tunza Talanta Foundation, an organisation that promotes the social-economic welfare of young people living in informal settlements.