Staff Profiles: Professors
Professor Chipo Hungwe
Position: Executive Dean
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Ageing; Disability; Gender; Migration; Urban agriculture; Survival strategies; Work
Dr Piwai Tshuma
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
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Preparation of Metal-Organic Frameworks with functional groups for heterogeneous catalysis.
Dr Anias Mutekwa
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
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Literature, gender and identity.
Coloniality and decoloniality in literature.
Zimbabwean and African Literature.
Ecocriticism
Literary theory and Criticism
Dr Julia Mutambara
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research interests
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Positive Psychology
Developmental psychology
Health psychology
Trauma healing and coping
Women`s mental health
Bereavement
Implementation Science
Dr Leon Poshai
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Public Policy Analysis
Digital Governance
Public Administration
Dr Augustine T Mataba
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Strategic Management
Business/Labour Law
Human Resources Management
Intellectual Property Law
Business model Innovation
Strategic Human Resources Management
Dr Francis Muromo
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests
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Rural Development, development induced displacements and dynamics behind the sugarcane out grower model inherited from the colonial era.
DR NOAH KUPETA
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Cultural Studies and Political Communication,
Memory Studies,
Digital and Electronic Broadcasting
Media Education & Andragogy Training Approaches
Indigenous Languages in Journalism
Dr Takunda Maodza
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
Media and Politics, Data Journalism, Investigative Journalism
Dr Precious Dube
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Applied Linguistics
gender studies
Climate change
Multilingualism
Second language Acquisition
Communication
Dr. Sheunesu Mandizvidza
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Interface between history and literature
(Auto)biography
Life writing
Academic and Professional Communication
Land literature
Memory Studies
Dr Pedzisai Kowe
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Urban development, planning and management
Spatial interaction modelling, gravity models, transport geography and network analysis
Geographic information science;
Remote sensing of urban green spaces;
Spatial statistics, landscape ecology and vegetation fragmentation mapping and analysing in urban landscapes;
Urban climate, urban heat island mitigation;
Dr Winmore Kusena
Position: RESEARCH MANAGER
Research Areas:
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Aspects of Human Geography
Water Governance
Sustainable household livelihood
Environmental Assessment & Management
Ms Nency Munyuki
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Agronomy,
Sustainable Agriculture,
Soil fertility
Plant nutrition
Mr Scott Mamimine
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
Civil Procedure, Commercial Law and Human Rights Law
MR R. ZHOU
Position: Staff Development Fellow
Research Areas:
Structural Designs, Water and Sanitation
Lindani Mpinami
Position: Assistant lecturer
Research Interests:
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Cultural studies
language development
Climate change
translation studies
gender studies
Limukani T Dube
Position:
Research Interests:
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Development of marginalised languages
sociolinguistics
identity and onomastics