Staff Profiles: Professors

Prof E Chauraya

Position:

Research Interests:
    Gender Issues in society Gender issues in the curriculum Curriculum Development issues Gender and Political instability

Prof Jephias Matunhu

Position: Executive Director

Research Interests :
    Sustainable Rural Development Climate change

Dr Claudio Chipendo

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests:
    African Music and Dance

Prof Andrew Tichaenzana Manyawu

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests : 
    Critical discourse analysis (religious, political, and pedagogical discourses) Language curriculum

Dr Ephraim Vhutuza

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests: 
    Drama, Theatre African Literature

Mr Richard Duve

Position: Acting Campus Director : Kwekwe Campus

Ms Petronella Katekwe

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests :
    Liberation Heritage, Intangible Heritage and Memory Studies, Records and Archives Administration

Professor William Lungisani Chigidi

Position: Professor

Research interests
    Indigenous knowledge systems Literature Oral literature African culture. Detective fiction.

Dr Winniefridah Matsa

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Gender and culture, Gender and environment, Gender and education, Gender and women, Gender and Migration as well as Sociological issues. 

Dr. Anna Gudyanga

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Gender Issues HIV/AIDS Education Curriculum Issues in Science Education Education and Transformation Socialization in Child and Adolescent Development.

Dr L. M Museva

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Adult Education University Community Engagement

Dr B. Muromo

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Media and religion, Media & Politics, Media & democracy (political communication, regulation etc), Peace and security, Social media, Broadcasting and Gender

Dr Tariro Ndawana

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Radio studies, media and gender, media regulation, media and politics, media and religion, media reception studies

Dr Richard Muranda

Position: Lecturer

Research interests
    Recording, Mixing and Mastering audio, Live sound reinforcement, Microphone techniques, Technology for music instruction and music education, Keyboard and Mbira performance, Musical sound and acoustics, Studio designs,

Ms Kudzai Matsika

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests: 
    Gender and Development, Community Participation, Politics Constitutionalisation of Local Governments

Mr. Isaac Machafa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Ethnomusicology, Anthropology

Ms Vimbai Chamisa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Popular music, Applied Ethnomusicology, Historical musicology

Mrs Tendai Shoko

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Music education, music performance

Ms Primrose Mawire

Position: Lecturer

Research Interest:  
    African Literature, Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Identity, Gender and Childhood discourses

Mr Hove John

Position: Technician

Research Interests
     Geographic Information System  Remote Sensing  LULC modelling for Natural Resource Management Flood modelling for Disaster Risk Management  Geographic Data Science Analysis in R, SPSS, Jamovi  GIS Cloud Computing techniques in JavaScript, Python and R