Role: Early Career Researcher

Shenge’s topic is: Ground-truthing of the civil society weather observations from the Whatsapp group “Weather chasers Malawi”. Shenge will investigate the opportunities to ground-truth civil society’s weather observations in Malawi by assessing the multiple purpose communication of the Whatsapp group “Weather chasers Malawi.” Shenge will identify the various uses, purposes and outcomes of the Whatsapp group, link the civil society’s weather observations to forecasting in Malawi and analyse the practicality of such Whatsapp group for hydrological and metrological science and governance.