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| - Inability to travel to attend required duties or conferences - Reduced physical interaction so some things are not effectively handled |
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| 1. Laboratories were closed for over a year, 2. Movement has been limited during this period 3. Face to face meeting with supervisors and mentors has been next to impossible 4. Fear, fatigue, psychological trauma have been a serious problem |
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| A lot of time was lost during lockdown which hindered data collection |
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| Academic wise |
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| Access to funding, meeting for research and proposal writing limited/prohibited, field data collection face to face impossible |
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| Access to supervisors was greatly affected and therefore made no progress with my thesis |
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| Access to the field for some research activities. |
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| Activities were so closed mean that we were at home no job |
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| Affected me healthwise |
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| All research and training institutions were closed. Research funds were not disbursed instead they were re- distributed to fighting covid 19 pandemic. Some lead researchers were affected directly and indirectly. Some researchers lost jobs |
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| Alot was missed out as I couldn't interact with colleagues well |
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| As a community development officer meetings /workshops are paramount which is not the case with C19 |
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| As a self-sponsored student, it has been difficult prioritizing fee payment and other needs as commodities have become expensive due to the pandemic. This has caused laxity in continuing with my research work Also, the data collection process |
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| As a teacher I was not working there failed to have basic needs of living. Some schools were closed which made me loose the job |
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| At the master's level we were obliged to take the courses online |
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| B |
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| Because it helps |
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| Because of it Im yet to submit |
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| Busy |
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| COVID-19 forced people to work from home while for me as a mother of the family, it is almost impossible to work from home. |
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| COVID-19 forced us to work from home where research facilities (office settings, internet connection, etc.) are not efficient. Moreover, discussing with research team online is far different from physical meeting, especially for technical resea |
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| COVID-19 has affected both my personal life especially child care arrangements given the long periods of children at home/doing virtual learning Covid has also restricted movements affecting research activities by: 1. Increasing research cost |
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| Cannot access University labs, lack of money, too much work being given to be done at home. |
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| Cash flow challenges, interruption, slow adaptation of technology |
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| Challenge to meet the supervisor challenges in data collection means of transport |
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| Closed institutions |
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| Closed schools I was not able to collect the data |
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| Closeness with Supervisors was affected |
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| Closure of all learning institutions slowed down the process delaying completion of studies |
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| Closure of learning institution thus completion of studied taking long |
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| Closure pf schools/colleges. Delay i curriculum coverage. Mental stress due to uncertainties around Covid 19 |
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| Closures of academic institutions disrupted the process of learning for a while |
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| Completion of my bachelor's was delayed by 7 months to 1 year because of Covid19 |
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| Could not start the my first year first semester |
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| Couldn't finish my research on time. Family and studies had to be balanced which became a big challenge |
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| Covid 19 affected my ability to secure employment |
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| Covid 19 pandemic has slowed my progress in attaining PHD as it has brought about reduction in interaction with my supervisors, face to face cut off has brought about misunderstanding as what you are directed to do in writing is hectic than whe |
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| Covid seriously affected my work and hence affecting my income |
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| Covid-19 it was affected our job in different ways like postponing our goal and stop working in different sectors |
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| Covid-19 restriction affect field data collection |
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| Data collection was late due to pandemic. |
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| Defenses have been delayed |
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| Delay in academic year |
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| Delay in defending thesis because of lack of opportunity to meet supervisors with tight schedules |
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| Delay in finishing courses in masters degree enrolment and lack of promotion at workplace. |
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| Delay in meeting my study targets |
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| Delay in studies, no employments, high taxes and thus debts, |
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| Delay in travel for laboratory work |
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| Delayed |
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| Delayed coverage of class work,hence delayed thesis submission dates |
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| Delayed institutional functionality and transition from analogue to digital platforms use |
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| Delayed my completion of masters program from last year to May, this year. |
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| Delayed my thesis defense |
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| Delayed research |
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| Delayed research since school was closed for almost 1 year |
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| Delaying my studies of masters |
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| Delays |
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| Delays caused by lockdowns |
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| Delays in approvals and in implementation of research and review of thesis |
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| Delays in data collection due to restrictions in holding meetings. |
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| Delays in data collection, changes in data collection process with methodological and financial implications, restrictions in travels to be with supervisors for face-to-face interaction. |
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| Delays in enrollment |
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| Delays in ethical clearance and field data collection |
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| Delays to submit manuscripts for publication. |
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| Deminished income hence lack of fees for tuition |
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| Difficulties with data collection |
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| Disrupted normal way of doing business |
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| Domestic disturbance or many home (family) responsibilities. |
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| Due to failure meeting the targeted population at a specific time |
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| Due to level of engagements and interactions being limited |
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| Due to the lockdown, I couldn't meet with my supervisor and yet zoom sessions could not be of so much help at the start. Due to the sickness, I couldn't progress at the same rate following admission in hospital |
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| Due to the lockdown, I was occupied by children and somehow depressed |
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| During COVID the supervisors could not accept face to face meetings.The universities had no policies for online defenses and presentations |
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| During COVID-19 studies were paused. This has made me to fail finish on time |
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| During Covid Pandemic many changes took place where every teaching was shifted from face to face to online. This took time and getting feedback on our work and other university services to become slow. This affected negatively our progress . |
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| During Covid-19 everything changed, including the model of studying, and access to different services and eventually these changes in different sectors transitively affected my research to some extent |
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| During lockdown : -No or little space to concentrate on academic work -More attention to children, older people and spouse care - Poor access to internet - Quarantine/isolation - Economics crisis at home - Less motivation for academic a |
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| During the covid pandemic period, neither research nor lessons were working at the normal pace. We must stay at home without internet, neither collaborators. |
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| During the lockdown, University Faculty and staff would not do research |
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| During the pandemic period all oral/ physical presentation were post pond for a whole year up to when online presentations was introduced. |
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| During the period of pendemic, we sometimes didn't go to work |
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| Everything was delayed because of covid 19, including lab works, physical meeting with supervisors,... |
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| Everything was done online which was new way of life many of the people and this affected us alot .it took a long time to adapt to the online platform and this delayed the finish of thesis. |
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| Fear of covid - 10 lecturing |
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| Few opportunities for employment |
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| Field research affected |
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| Fieldwork was hindered due to travel restrictions. |
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| Financially and delays if my projects |
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| Funding opportunities for research have become scarce |
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| Funding reduced |
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| Got laid off from work hence struggling to pay tuition |
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| Graduation postponed |
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| Hard Working at home without facilities like internet |
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| Having been released from school during the pandemic, my research which required human interaction was delayed. |
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| Hinderance to have budget to finish what has been started |
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| Hindrance on collection of data |
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| I have wasted almost a whole year and have been changed to a community far from the University. Travelling has been very tough and internet has been a nightmare |
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| I I Closed my business |
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| I Tried getting job opportunities but i was not able to do so because many campanies preferred reducing the number of staffs rather than increasing. My family have been struggling to self sponsor my education, so as to support them i had to fi |
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| I am stuck in my career progression. |
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| I am working from home and my young children are being home schooled during the pandemic. I have 2 day jobs i.e. my work (which has become a full day series of online meetings) and I still must attend to household responsibilities. The result i |
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| I can't my students face to face and only a few manage to access online platform |
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| I contract COVID-19, I isolate myself. This delayed the development of my research proposal |
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| I could not access the field since there was travel bans |
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| I couldn't get permission to go to the field during the height of the pandemic |
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| I did my research at a time Covid broke out, this affected my data collection, discussions, survey, and consultant with my supervisor |
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| I did not completed timely my study |
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| I don't have a good network at home, so I was not able to complete my online work and submit timely |
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| I failed to collect data on time and some months the university was closed so i will be late to submit my dissertation |
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| I got sick and have not fully recovered |
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| I had a school feeding project, Just before i started feeding pupils schools were closed in order to minimize chances of contracting COVID, hence my biscuits were spoiled and rendered unfit for human consumption. This loss was not covered by m |
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| I had to attend courses on line I had to postpone my data collection for my PHD I have extended my time for PhD. |
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| I had to conduct some surveys but couldn't because I was not able to get in contact with people I need |
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| I had to halt and movement was restricted |
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| I had to wait 2 years for my work to stabilize and also wait for the education system to be opened |
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| I had to work from home |
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| I have been delayed in the courses in my program |
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| I have delayed in my research since I was dealing with secondary students and at that moment schools were closed. |
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| I have delayed to collect data |
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| I lost my job |
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| I should go to collect and analyse data in China but until now It is difficult to get a chinese visa Entry. |
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| I spend more time at home where it is very difficult to work from. |
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| I stopped my studies at University |
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| I was at a stage of collecting data, as there was a lockdown where all institutions were working from home, i did not manage to collect data at time |
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| I was carrying out my data collection which was interfered with because of Covid because it was to be done I hospitals |
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| I was doing my PhD. It was not easy to travel to meet my supervisor and in the beginning it was not easy to work online..it took time hence I delayed to complete. In addition kids were at home and it was not easy to combine home chores and my P |
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| I was not able to collect data for my research project due to school closure imposed by the covid |
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| I was once under quarantine and I missed some class activities. but also limitations of travel and meetings somehow limited discussions yet internet costs have not been easily affordable |
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| I was personally infected and ruined not only financially, but also psychologically, and emotionally. |
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| I was preparing to visit Sweden, KTH for some months to learn advanced analysis techniques and the all mission collapsed completely |
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| I was supposed to submit my thes by the end of year 2020 but due to covid-19, I finished my research and writing my thesis in 2022. |
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| I was to required to study from home |
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| I wasn't able to finish my Masters degree in time because of delays in my research work specifically data collection. I was not able to access the University lab was water sample analysis because the univerty was closed down. |
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| I work as a researcher, so during the pandemic, all our project research activities had to stop, which affected the expected deliverables. This also had an impact in conference presentations, publications, grant opportunities which in general h |
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| Il attaque l'économie du pays |
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| Impact of COVID-19 on work. 1. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on work across the world. Here are some of the ways in which it has affected work: 2 Remote work: Many companies have had to transition to remote work t |
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| In 2019, I had got a scholarship,to study from abroad but when Covid 19 came in, my Visa was counseled which was very bad and by name I would have completed my master program |
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| In employment leading to collapse of economy |
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| Interruptions of physical classes. |
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| Inwas affected directly by covid, lost finances |
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| It affected me indirectly. |
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| It affected my finances rendering me unable to complete my studies in time |
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| It affected my studies because it extended the duration of studying my masters studies that were expected to end in 2020 but due to Vivid -19 until now I didn't graduate |
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| It has affected collaborative work. |
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| It has affected when I could complete course work since the University was once closed hence can't access some materials, online earnings were a bit complicated and hence finished my first year late.Meaning I won't graduate as expected |
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| It has been difficult to get additional funding. Some patients have defaulted from care. |
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| It has exerted extra pressure on me as a lady in terms if child and family care. As a result I am slow in achieving certain targets |
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| It hindered in data collection thus set me back in my analysis as I failed to reach the required number of participants |
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| It made me lose my retainment at work |
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| It made me stay without furthering my education for months |
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| It requires a shift to online teching and learnimg, which is a challenge to many, both learners and faculty members |
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| It resulted to delayed PhD field work |
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| It slowed down our studies as well as face to face interactions with the lecturers who are the supervisors |
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| It slowed researches down, reduced people's ability to meet deadlines, |
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| It was not easy to meet the supervisor personally |
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| It was really hard to balance both professional and social life due to low income |
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| Job opportunities became scarce constraining my ability to finance my self sponsored Masters degree studies |
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| LEARNING INSTITUTIONS CLOSED FOR ALMOST A YEAR AND IT WAS CHALLENGING FOR SUBMISSION OF THESIS, FEW EFFORTS WERE MADE LATE FOR ONLINE PRESENTATIONS THAT WERE MARRED WITH CHALLENGES AS IT WAS A NEW APPROACH. |
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| LOCKDOWN AND CESSATION OF MOVEMENT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER AFFECTED DATA COLLECTION |
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| Lack of internet coverage in some region has proved a challenge in learning and teaching |
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| Lectures were postponed |
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| Limitation in movement for purposes of field work and meetings |
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| Limited mobility means lesser and lesser sample collection, high cost of necessary needs for research. Available funding and publishing is strongly biased to COVID-19 related manuscripts while other areas of specialization receives little atte |
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| Limited movement, financial strain and |
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| Lock down |
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| Lock down has slowed progress of activities Working at home is also almost impossible with household responsibilities and children care giving |
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| Lock down has stopped all filed activities Social distancing has slowed and prolonged data collection and relatively expenses has increased due to Covid-19 prevention |
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| Lock down, reduced movement, so seeking out supervisors became difficult! |
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| Lockdown |
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| Lockdown affected movement to other parts of the country to carry on with research. |
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| Lockdown affected traveling hence difficult to conduct research |
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| Lockdown and the related closure of transport in the country delayed my data collection activities |
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| Lockdown restricted my interactions with the supervisors hence delay in finalisation of research |
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| Lost job and had to look for alternative fund sources |
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| Many institutions were shut down,students could not continue with their reasearches |
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| Many project has not been executed, |
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| More |
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| Most of our research was meant to be face to face but due to the covid19, we have not been able to do the face to face. Working remotely was not very easy either |
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| Movement of material, equipment and labour was seriously affected resulting in delays. |
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| Movement restrictions |
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| Much dependence on Terchnoloogy |
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| My progress is slowed by the uncertainty of the season. |
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| My studies have been suspended, no access to traffic |
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| My study is being conducted in schools and due to COVID 19 schools were closed |
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| My supervisor was infected and he has been ill upto date. We stopped learning for a period of one year and laboratory activities were highly affected thus making our progress be slowered |
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| My wife lost her job and I was obliged to take care of all family expenses. More to that it looks like I have Phycological disorder due to COVID19 endless. |
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| My work involves shipping samples to South Africa but due to Covid-19 situation I had to look for a laboratory in Kenya which took long. He cost is also high compared to the original plan of shipping |
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| N/A |
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| NO OPPURTINITES FOR PRESENTATION, DELAYED DATA COLLECTION |
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| No |
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| No Time to meet and discuss with my supervisor |
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| No funds for research due pandemic. |
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| No money |
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| No physical lectures |
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| No students to supervise. |
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| Nolonger working |
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| Not a thesis, but for my paper to be completed and published. I was sharing the authorship with my colleagues in Denmark |
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| Not able to carry out lab practical: not able to meet mentors and mentees; |
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| Not able to complete my masters degree at the required timeline. |
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| Online studies |
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| Online studying has been a challenge |
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| Our country experienced total pockdown for two years |
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| Postphoned data collection when schools were closed due to the perdemic |
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| Promotion interviews have been suspended Teaching disrupted Cannot attend international conferences and workshops |
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| Reduced access to public academic resources and office infrastructure, delayed my progress in research and publication |
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| Reduced income of the University, and led to salary cuts |
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| Research activities which are dynamic and need interaction with people within and outside the country slowed down |
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| Research and dada collection delay |
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| Research and funding opportunities are few |
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| Research practicals were delayed affecting the timeline/deadline for submission |
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| Research progress,going to collect the informations in country,the money to spend in bying the material of protection,the program for publication are affectée by Covid pandemic |
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| Restricted movement for data collections |
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| Restriction in movement affected fieldwork; working from home affected benchwork. |
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| Restriction to research work |
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| Restrictions in movement |
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| Restrictions of movement made it difficult to access my supervisor, learning/research materials (Library). I did depend on field work/data collection, proposal and research writings for my upkeep, fees and with the Covid-19 it was difficult. |
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| Salaries were reduced student numbers went down as a result I couldn't manage to pay my phd fees let alone eat |
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| Scheduling for meetings with supervisors is challenge |
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| Schools in our university were officially closed. There were no ongoing lessons online because we had not prepared ourselves on how to conduct our lessons online. |
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| Schools were closed for long |
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| Schools were closed hence delayed meeting my supervisor |
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| Sicknesses |
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| Since 2020, we have not been able to travel to school, we learnt online only but if we were able to travel and interact physically with other students and lecturers will have been easy to work together and be able to get clarifications where yo |
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| Since all flights were grounded I waited a whole year for my reagents consinment to reach me for my lab analysis. Then one of the machines needed repairs from an external engineer who could not fly into the country because Tanzania has been red |
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| Since am self sponsored ,resources-funds became scarce and therefore progress has been rather slow |
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| Since there are restrictions in association, research process has also slowed down. Donor funding has also been negatively affected. |
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| Slow delivery of reagents due to transport restrictions on import from abroad |
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| Slow educational process |
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| Slowed down participants recruitment process hence affected timelines for completing projects |
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| Slowed down studies due to lock down and no school attendance |
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| Slowed down work, affected funding opportunities, lost much time, lost many lives |
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| Slowed it down |
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| Slowed processes at the university. Have had more work related to COVID-19 to do at my place of work hence leaving little time for the PhD work. |
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| Slower progression in research and publications and progression of post graduate students due to the pandemic |
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| Some of the expected grants which I would get hired were stopped or pending because of the pandemic. |
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| Some time the college was closed therefore no progress was done |
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| Started data collection in February 2020, stopped due to Covid-19 in March 2020 then resumed in October 2020 with some disturbance of lockdown |
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| Stopping of activities |
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| Stopping working venue |
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| Study time was reduced,, movement to research areas hampered,,, social freedom to interact with respondents reduced. Generally the quantity of time dedicated for studies was negatively reduced. With most modules rashly studied |
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| Supervisors not being digital |
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| Supervisors worked from home and it was difficult meeting them for a follow up and advice. |
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| Taken more years to accomplish my studies |
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| Taking time to adopt to online learning |
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| The Covid 19 pandemic affected the way of operation in such a way that I had to learn on how to work virtually on line with my students. |
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| The COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions have affected the progress of my Ph.D. studies in several ways. I was unable to return to my host university due to travel restrictions. During the lockdown, I was unable to access facilities such as g |
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| The application process for admission took longer than expected due to online working conditions |
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| The biggest challenge was finances and supervisors failed to create enough time to read my work and so they failed to guide me through the specified time for my masters programme |
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| The first phase of Covid 19, slowed my progress as it was not easy to meet with my supervisors on physical encounters for discussion. |
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| The learning stopped for the period that the pandemic was discovered |
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| The lock down affected research activities stalled progress |
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| The mentorship and supervision is now online and there has been delayed data collection and some laxity |
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| The move to online platforms has greatly increased the workload. |
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| The pandemic came with restrictions on movements hence interaction with people to collect data was hindered more so for countries whose technology and internet connection are not yet advance to allow for online means of data collection. |
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| The pandemic interrupted all the proposed timelines for my research work with my University also closing for a few months. Borders closed and projected exchange programs were canceled. Resources meant for research work delayed to be delivered a |
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| The periods when the kids were out of school were very stressful. It was hard to keep them constructively busy while working at the same time. Also the mental stress and anxiety about the virus has been too much |
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| The publication peer review process has been delayed, affecting my requirements for completing my studies |
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| The time planed for data collection, there was a rock down in my country. School were closed. I was obliged to delay until school reopen and lock down end. |
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| There was a luck of project progress and loses as well |
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| There was a problem in traveling especially to the study site |
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| There was limited interaction with the lecturers |
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| There was no enough time |
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| There was no good working environment |
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| There was no learning during the time and online learning was a challenge due to some technical issues |
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| There was suspension of academic activities during the peak of CoVID-19 outbreak. This affected my PhD research time plan |
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| Three years back to back with out leave |
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| Time has been wasted. No ease of movement |
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| Time spent off work has delayed my research activities. Working from home meant spending more time doing domestic work than keeping up with writing or research work. |
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| Time wise |
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| Travel regulations limiting us to explore new laboratory opportunities |
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| Unable to meet with supervisors physically for effective mentorship and guidance. |
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| Vision conference |
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| Was not paid |
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| We could not travel for data collection. Also, the defence and presentation were not done physically, the online presentation has many limitations, especially to least-developed countries as ours. |
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| We had to delay the start of a project |
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| When COVID-19 arrived schools have been closed for more than 2 months |
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| With the lock down it became difficult to go to the field and to the lab. Also with the children schooling from home, it was difficult to do much work |
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| Work disruption |
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| Work-wise, salary reviews have not been done since the onset of the pandemic |
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| Working from home has been a challenge. |
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| Working from home, paid half salary |
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| Workload reduced |
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| Yes |
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| Yes because we don't have enough skills and practice from University |
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| availability of research facilities affected by COVID-19 |
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| badly because it stops my studies |
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| become unemployed |
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| closure of institutions and lock downs |
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| closure of learning institutions delayed clearance, data collection and completion |
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| closure of research labs and industries affected work plans |
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| completion of course work delayed |
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| delayed data collection as schools were closed |
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| difficult |
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| difficult to work from the home environment |
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| difficulties in in-person interactions for data collection |
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| during the covid restrictions, I couldn't work from home with children and husband around. |
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| extension of deadlines,missing workshops and using online lecturers mostly |
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| few financial support, difficult for moving from a country to another |
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| it affected sources of income hence there ws no money for research |
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| lack of funds |
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| lock down and access to resource materials |
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| lockdown effects |
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| low supervisor student engagement and contact |
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| no physical interactions like it used to be |
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| no studies were conducted. |
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| prolonged my research and access to supervisors |
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| quality, physical consultation, movements |
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| schools were closed and we were not working |
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| staying at home meant having less time to be away from home and therefore had to use more time attending to my family and accompished less of my formal work |
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| supervision was not good and even collecting data was hard during COVID 19 |
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| there are alot of restriction being introduced |
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| took break for one yr hence delayed completion, could not carry research as designed coz of travel restrictions |
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| unavailability of resources |
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| was scared travelling going to cyber, meeting the supervisor |
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| work days have been reduced due to lockdowns and the working hours have reduced |
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
