Dadirai is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research of the University of Malawi (CSR) where she also coordinates the in house Seminars. She is also a 2018 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Research Fellow under the “Enhancing Capacity to Apply Research Evidence (CARE) for youth engagement in agribusiness and rural economic activities in Africa”, sponsored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). She has a Master of Arts degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from the University of Malawi. 

She has attended various trainings including the 2021 CODATA RDA Research Data Science Summer School on Open Science and Responsible Conduct of Research, Introduction to Unix Shell, Programming for Analysis, Git, Research Data Management, Author Carpentry, Data Visualisation, Information Security, Machine Learning and Computational Infrastructures. Other trainings she has attended include: Computation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Malawi, University of Oxford and UNDP Malawi (2020), Research and Grants Managements, SARIMA, Online (2020), Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and learning (MEAL) training, CSR (2019), ODK for mobile data collection/ programming, MEASURE Evaluation (2018), Policy Briefing and Scientific Writing, IITA Nigeria (2018), Research Methodology and Data Analysis, IITA Nigeria (2018) and the Advanced Excel Training, Airtel Malawi/TECHNO BRAIN (2015).

Academic Outputs

1. Dadirai Mkombe. The Economic Impacts of Covid-19 in Malawi: A Scoping Review. International Conference on Covid-19 under the theme: " Unpacking the Science, Economics and Politics of COVID-19” organised by the Great Zimbabwe University. 29^th -30th July 2021. Online.

2. Alex Hughes, Emma Roe, Elvis Wambaya, Dadirai Mkombe, Dr Abhalah Ziraba and Alister Munthali. Changing Food Systems in Kenya and Malawi and the Challenge of Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance. Global-NAMRIP Virtual Conference. 10th June 2021, Online.

3. Dadirai Mkombe, Elvis Wambiya, Alister Munthali, Abdhalah Ziraba, Alexandra Hughes and Emma Roe. Policy and Regulatory Environment for Antimicrobial Resistance Mitigation in the Poultry Industry: A Scoping Review for Kenya and Malawi. GW4 Multidisciplinary Approaches to AMR: Bench to Bedside and Beyond, AMR Symposium. 30th November 2020 to 4th December 2020, Online.

4. Elvis Wambiya, Dadirai Mkombe, Abdhalah Ziraba, Alister Munthali, Alexandra Hughes and Emma Roe. Changing Food Systems, the poultry sector, and antimicrobial resistance in sub-saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. GW4 Multidisciplinary Approaches to AMR: Bench to Bedside and Beyond, AMR Symposium. 30th November 2020 to 4th December 2020, Online.

5. Dadirai Mkombe , Adane Hirpa Tufa , Arega D. Alene , Julius Manda , Shiferaw Feleke , Tahirou Abdoulaye & Victor Manyong (2020): The effects of foreign direct investment on youth unemployment in the Southern African Development Community, Development Southern Africa: https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2020.1796598

6. Dadirai MKombe. Youth Unemployment in the southern African Development Community: What Role Does Foreign Direct Investment Play? Policy Brief (2020), care.iita.org.

7. Dadirai Mkombe , Adane Hirpa Tufa , Arega D. Alene , Julius Manda , Shiferaw Feleke, Tahirou Abdoulaye & Victor Manyong (2019): The effects of foreign direct investment on youth unemployment in the Southern African Development Community. Oral symposium, part of the 6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists, 23rd – 26th September 2019. Abuja, Nigeria.