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/Dr Noel Garikai Muridzo
Dr Noel Garikai Muridzo
Dr Noel Garikai Muridzo

Position: Executive Director

Department: School of Social Work
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Qualifications:  

  • Dip Social Work (University of Zimbabwe)
  • Bachelor of Social Work (University of Zimbabwe)
  • Master of Social Work (University of Zimbabwe)
  • Doctor of Philosophy Social Work (University of Witwatersrand)

Research interests

  • Child sexual abuse
  • Child Protection
  • International Social Work
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Protection

Selected Publications 

  • Muzingili, T., Chidyausiku, W., Taruvinga, R., Chikwaiwa, B. K., & Muridzo, N. G. (2026). Challenges Facing African Social Work Researchers in Integrating Indigenous Research Ethics: Towards Ethical Reconstitution Through Decolonial Cooperation. Global Social Welfare, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-026-00466-1
  • Muzingili, T., Takavarasha, F. N., Muridzo, N. G., & Chikwaiwa, B. K. (2026). Embodied social work in Zimbabwe: the body as a sensory tool in frontline practice. Social Work Education, 1-23. DOI:10.1080/02615479.2026.2681899
  • Dudzai, C., Mugumbate, R., Keevers, L., & Muridzo, N. G. (2026). The Rural Natural Environment is a Teacher: Embedding Global South Rural Communities’ Environmental Experiences in Social Work Education. Global Social Welfare, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-026-00462-5
  • Dudzai, C., Mugumbate, R., Keevers, L., Muridzo, N. G., Magocha, J. C., & Matanga, A. A. (2026). Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Decolonisation of Development: Ecological Moral Agency in Rural Zimbabwe. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 39(2), 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-026-09979-3
  • Ndima, A., Sobantu, M., Muridzo, N. G., & Sukulao, T. (2026). Housing challenges encountered by single mothers heading households in Tyutyu Village, Bhisho Eastern Cape, South Africa. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 62(1), 153–170. https://doi.org/10.15270/62-1-1373
  • Sukulao, T., Tshugulu, A.N., Muridzo, N.G. et al.Community strategies for navigating food insecurity   in ward 10, Mudzi District, North Eastern Zimbabwe. Discover Food 5, 439 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44187-025-00726-7
  • Makosa, I., Sukulao, T., Tshugulu, A., Muridzo, N., Chisango, T., & Simbine, S. (2025). Socio- economic factors contributing to juvenile delinquency in Zimbabwe: A social work persipective. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 61(3), 477-501.
  • Muridzo, N. G., & Kurevakwesu, W. (2025). Celebrating 40 issues of the JSDA and Midlands State University’s silver jubilee: Looking at some of the developmental problems in Southern Africa. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 40(1), i-vi. DOI: 4314/jsda.v40i1.1
  • Sukulao, T., Kurevakwesu, W., Tshugulu, A. N., Matanga, A. A., & Muridzo, N. G. (2025). Perceived causes and consequences of food insecurity in rural Zimbabwe: Using a decolonised methodology. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 40(1), 27-61. DOI: 10.4314/jsda.v40i1.3
  • Kurevakwesu, W., T. Mabeza, T., Masungwa, D., Matanga, A. A., Chirangwanda, K., Mavuka, A., & Muridzo, N. G. (2025). Re-entry of Teenage Mothers into Zimbabwe’s Education System: Implications for Social Work and Policy. The International Journal of Community and Social Development. DOI: 1177/25166026241310030
  • Muridzo, N.G, Hungwe, C & Chadambuka, P. (2025). Access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities by women with disabilities in Zimbabwe’s Harare Metropolitan Province during COVID-19. Disability & Society, 40(7), 1897-1916. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2411527
  • Mupedziswa,R., Muridzo, N.G. & Simbine, S.L. (2025). School Social Work in Sub-Saharan:  Africa: Issues, Challenges & Prospects, Rheinfelden, IFSW
  • Maushe, F., Kurevakwesu, W., Muridzo, N. G., Chigondo, E. E., & Mashambanhaka, A. T. (2025). Chapter Ten Child Marriages in Zimbabwe: Interrogating Culture, girls’ rights, and HIV and AIDS in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West Province. In Isaac Mutelo, Joyline Gwara, & Monica Nyachowe  (eds). Thinking Children’s Rights in Africa: Emerging Issues. Brompton, ATF Africa. 171 -180
  • Muridzo, N. G., & Mukurazhizha, R. M. (2025). Imagined Life of Transnational Zimbabwe Social Workers in England.  In Panagiotis Pentaris, Janet Walker (eds). The Routledge International Handbook of Global Social Work.London. Taylor and Francis. DOI:10.4324/9781003507710-21
  • Simbine, S.L., Muridzo, N.G. & Mupedziswa,R.(2025). Inclusive School Social Work in sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on Children with Disabilities. In Rodreck Mupedziswa, Noel Garikai Muridzo & Samuel Lisenga Simbine (eds) School Social Work in Sub- Saharan:  Africa: Issues, Challenges & Prospects, Rheinfelden, IFSW. Pp 131 – 144.
  • Muridzo, N., Chikadzi, V & Kaseke, E. (2018).Challenges faced by Professionals working in Child Sexual Abuse Multi sectorial forums: A Case of the Victim Friendly System Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 55 (4), 452- 468.          doi.http://dx.doi.org/10.15270/54-4.672
  • Muridzo, N., Chikadzi, V & Kaseke, E. (2018). Challenges faced by Child sexual abuse survivours with disabilities utilising available intervention strategies: A case of the Victim Friendly System in Zimbabwe. Journal of Human Rights & Social Work 3 (191– 201) Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-018-0068-1

Positions held

  • Reserch Fellow, Department of Social Work and Community Development University of Johanesburg 
  • Vice President International Federation of Social Workers  ( 2016 -2020)
  • Regional President, International Federation of Social Workers, Africa Region ( 2016 – 2024)
  • Regional Vice President/ Member At Large,   International Federation of Social Workers, Africa Region ( 2014 – 2016 )
  • President,  National Association of Social Workers Zimbabwe (2011 – 2015)

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