Staff Profiles: School of Social Work
Dr Victor Chikadzi
Acting Director
Research interests
- Poverty Reduction Initiatives
- Social policy
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social Development
- Child protection
- Social protection
- Sustainable livelihoods
- Offender Rehabilitation and Reintegration
- Rural Development.
Dr Admire Chereni
Senior Lecturer
Research interests
- Child-sensitive social protection [Birth registration | child advocacy | child social exclusion]
- Child protection [research on leaving care, out-of-home care (ongoing) | birth registration]
- Migration and development [South-South migration | Forced-migration, Migration dynamics – transnational families, Implications of migration for child development, gender and patriarchy | Student migration | Migration data]
- Fathering & Male involvement in Reproduction and Sexual Health
- Social Work Field Instruction
Dr Patience Chinyenze
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Clinical social work
- Psychosocial support for vulnerable groups
- Palliative care & Bereavement
- Mental health and well being
- Groupwork & Community work
- Counselling
- Social development
Dr Itai Mafa
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Ethics
- Gender studies
- Research methods
- Community Health
- Critical social work
- Management and Administration
- Leadership
Dr Noel Garikai Muridzo
Lecturer
Research interests
- Corporate social responsibility
- Child Protection
- Social Policy
- Social protection
- International Social Work
- Social Work regulation
- Mental health
Mrs Linah Ruparanganda
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Research and Documentation
- People Management
- Project Planning and Management
- Database Design and Management
- Data Management and Analysis
- Community Work And Community Development
- Longitudinal Impact Monitoring and Evaluation Practitioner
Mrs R. Chavhi-Mlambo
Lecturer
Research interests
- Child Protection and Family Services
- Human Rights and Disability
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Refugees and Internally displaced persons.
- Food security and Social Policy
- Social Work Fields of Practice