Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Management and Leadership Studies Department at the University of Malawi in Malawi. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Business and Management from the University of Manchester, UK, a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Leeds, UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Malawi, Malawi. Tiyesere has over 19 years of research and teaching in Human Resource Management and Public Administration and is specifically interested in Gender and governance related aspects. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at GETSPA, Tiyesere is investigating the intersection of austerity, social policies and men and women’s work in the health sector, drawing on experiences from Malawi, Senegal, and Ghana.