The Lessons from Lake Malawi team comprises researchers based in Malawi and Scotland, whose interests bridge historical, legal, environmental, and public health perspectives on fisheries and lakeshore communities grounded in Indigenous and Local Knowledges. 

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The work presented here is drawn from two funded research projects.

 

The first was the Lessons from Lake Malawi: British Colonialism, Marine Sciences, & Fisheries Governance in the Mid-Twentieth Century project. 

 

This ran from January 2022 to July 2023, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) “Hidden histories of environmental science: Acknowledging legacies of race, social injustice and exclusion to inform the future” programme [AH/W009099/1]. 

 

The second is the Colonial Currents, Contemporary Countercurrents: Historical Legacies and Collaborative Futures in Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa's Transnational Fisheries project. 

 

This runs from May 2026 to April 2028, and is funded by The British Academy’s International Interdisciplinary Research Projects Award (KF26\100825). 

 

To read more about these projects, please use the links above.