Staff Profiles: Professors

Dr R. Muranda

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Collecting and recording children’s traditional songs. Digital music production in the 21st century. Exploring preservation of ethnic musical traditions through digital technology. Instrumental performance of mbira and western musical instruments. Live sound reinforcement techniques. Music and internet resources for music instruction. Performative music technologies. Recording, mixing, and mastering music. Transcription of traditional African music using notation software packages. Virtual teaching and learning resources in the 21st century.

Dr Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    Rural and urban development  Food security and agrarian reform Cooperatives and collective development  Development Finance  History of development in Africa Development Theory 

Dr Pedzisai Kowe

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    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 Tamisai Chipunza

Position: Lecturer

Research interests:

    Health Economics Development Economics

DR JONATHAN MREWA

Position: Researcher

Research Interests
    Monitoring and Evaluation Development work Social Work Disability education Disability Education Project management Child protection

Dr Augustine T Mataba

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    Strategic Management Business/Labour Law Human Resources Management  Intellectual Property Law Business model Innovation Strategic Human Resources Management

Dr Donald Peter Chimanikire

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Geopolitics Global Peace and Security; Diplomacy,  International Political Economy, Regional Economic integration and Development International Law and Diplomacy. Governance.

Dr. Shadreck Matindike

Position: Lecturer

Research interests:

Dr. Maxwell Haurovi

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Public Administration Local Governance and Public Service Delivery Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation Democracy and the Developmental State Social Security and Social Protection Devolution & Decentralisation Intergovernmental Relations Public Policy

Mrs Maureen Tshuma

Position: Lecturer

Research interests

    Gender and Development Public Health Issues Vulnerable Populations including AYLHIV HIV/AIDS Non Communicable Diseases: Cancers Population Displacement Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Linkages between health, poverty, risk and vulnerability with a particular interest in health systems development

Mr Taurai George Rebanowako    

Position: Lecturer

Research interests:

    Data Science and Business Intelligence  Knowledge Representation  Computer Security  Mobile Computing  Wireless Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modelling Image Processing and Deep Learning

Mr Absolom Mutavati

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    Music recording, Mixing and Mastering, Live sound reinforcement, Microphone techniques, Sound acoustics, Studio designs.

Mr Jonah Marawako

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Elections Conflict Transformation Foreign Policy

Miss Tatenda Yvonne Mupasu

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    International Relations Peace and Security  Geopolitics Elections and Electoral Systems  Foreign Policy African Politics Political Theory Democracy and Human Rights Regional Intergration International Politics
   

Mr Emmanuel Sakarombe

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Theories of International Relations Peace and Security Operations of International Organisations War studies International law Foreign policy and Election Management

Ms Valerie Rumbidzai Jeche

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Gender and Politics  Politics and Governance in Africa  Conflict Resolution 

Mrs Sharon R.T. Chilunjika

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Public Management Public Health Management E-government Digital Health

Ms Tanya Nyasha T. Moyo

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Human Settlements and Governance Rural and Urban Development Planning and Management Decentralization and Sub-national Service Delivery Ethics in Local Governance Resource Mobilisation and Financing for Sub-national Development

Nomatter Muringwa

Position: Laboratory Assistant

Research interests
    Food Chemistry  Food Safety

Terence Tachiona

Position: Research Fellow

Research Interests:

    Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computational Linguistics Data Science