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/Professor Chipo Hungwe
Professor Chipo Hungwe

Position: Executive Dean

Department: Community Studies
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QUALIFICATIONS:

  • PhD Sociology (UNISA)
  • MSc Sociology and Social Anthropology (UZ)
  • BSc Sociology (UZ)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Ageing
  • Gender
  • Migration
  • Urban agriculture
  • Survival strategies
  • Work

 

AWARDS

  • Women Corporate Directors Visionary and Inspirational Women in Zimbabwe Award (Nov 2022) by the Women Corporate Directors Network Zimbabwe (WCDNZ)
  • The Lifetime Human Resources Special Contribution Award (Nov 2021) by the Blackbelt Human Capital Development Institute (BHCDI)

 

CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS

Principal Investigator on the topic: “The impact of COVID-19 on social/family life, personal assistance/care and access to key services among women with disabilities in Zimbabwe“. The research is Funded by Diakonie ACT, Austria.

     

    PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPER PUBLICATIONS

  • Hungwe, C. 2017. Of crocodiles, magumaguma, hyenas, and malayitsha: Zimbabweans crossing the Limpopo in search of a better life in South Africa at The Migration Conference, Harokopio University Athens, Greece August 23-26 2017. The paper is published as Chapter 32 of The Migration Conference 2017 Conference proceedings by Transnational Press London, pages 363-372, ISBN: 1910781541, 9781910781548). https://www.tplondon.com/product/the-migration-conference-2017/.
  • Kasayira, J.M., Chipandambira, K. S. and Hungwe, C. 2007. Stressors faced by university students and their coping strategies: a case study of midlands state university students in Zimbabwe. 37 SEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference FIA-22 10-13 October, 2007. Milwaukee, WI. 1-4244-1084-3/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2007.4417807.

 

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

  • Hungwe, C. 2021. “Here and there: COVID:19 and Zimbabwe’s indignation against its returnees. A paper  presented at the Sixth International Conference on Hate Studies: Justice and Equity: Challenging Hate and Inspiring Hope, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, USA 4-6, November 2021.
  • Hungwe, C. 2019. The role of urban agriculture in ensuring food security and social inclusion in the city: A study of grandparent Headed Households in Bulawayo Zimbabwe. A paper presented at the 2nd International workshop of the Network for urban agriculture, Landscape Justice and Migrants Inclusion: Practices and strategies of integration (URBAMI), Southern Sun Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 29 October 2019.
  • Hungwe, C. 2018. The precarious lives of Zimbabwean migrant workers in Johannesburg. Presented at the 18th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) in Seoul, South Korea, July 23-27, 2018.
  • Hungwe, C. 2017. Of crocodiles, magumaguma, hyenas, and malayitsha: Zimbabweans crossing the Limpopo in search of a better life in South Africa at The Migration Conference, Harokopio University Athens, Greece August 23-26, 2017. 
  • Hungwe, C. 2013. Profiles of self employed Zimbabwean migrants in Tembisa and Kempton Park: challenges and opportunities. A paper presented at the 12th Social Sciences Research Seminar Series at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe on 16 October 2013.
  • Hungwe, C. and Gelderblom, D. 2013. Going Egoli: the migration experience of recent Zimbabwean migrants to Kempton Park, South Africa. A paper presented at the XIX South African Sociological Association (SASA) conference at UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 June -3 July 2013.
  • Kasayira, J.M., Chipandambira, K. S. and Hungwe, C. 2007. Stressors faced by university students and their coping strategies: a case study of midlands state university students in Zimbabwe. 37 SEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference FIA-22 10-13 October, 2007. Milwaukee, WI. 1-4244-1084-3/07.

 

NON-PEER REVIEWED PAPERS

Hungwe, C. 2022. Turning adversity to advantage? Everyday struggles of Zimbabwean commercial sex workers. WomenBeing International Feminist Research Magazine Issue 2; 30-35.  https://issuu.com/womenbeingmag/docs/wb_magazine_issue_2/s/15053453.

Hungwe, C. 2006. Urban Agriculture As A Survival Strategy: An Analysis Of The Activities Of Bulawayo And Gweru Urban Farmers (Zimbabwe) Published By City Farmer, Canada, February.

 

   

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