Staff Profile

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DL0WGI8AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4167-3052  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Social Work (Bindura University)
• Masters in Social Work (University of Zimbabwe)
• PhD Candidate (Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa)

Research Interests:

• Social Work Regulation
• Child Protection
• Social Welfare Policy
• Developmental Social Welfare
• Drug and substance use and misuse
• Mental Health
• African Social Work

Publications:

Kurevakwesu, W. 2023. United we stand and divided we fall: A call to action for the decolonisation of social work in Africa. International Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728231196364

Kurevakwesu, W., Masona, G., Mabeza, T. T., Zengeni, F.,& Chiweshe, C. C. 2023. Factors responsible for substance use among youths in urban areas and social work-related interventions. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2023.2212475 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Kurevakwesu, W., Mthethwa, E., Chirangwanda, K. & Mabeza, T. 2023. Parental perceptions on reintegration of pregnant girls or young mothers into the education system in Zimbabwe. Cogent Social Sciences, 9(1), 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2186564 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Kurevakwesu, W., Dzoma, F., Mundau, M., Magocha, J., Chizasa, S. and Takangovada, M. 2022. Towards the creation of a developmental welfare state in Zimbabwe: An inside perspective on the Department of Social Development. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 58(2). http://doi.org/10.15270/58-2-1037 (Stellenbosch University)

Kurevakwesu, W., Chikwaiwa, B. K., & Mandau, M. (2022). The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title. Qualitative Social Work, 22(2), 200–216. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250211061827 (SAGE)

Chineka, T. S. and Kurevakwesu, W. 2021. Challenges for child welfare and development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. African Journal of Social Work, 11(4). pp. 209-215 (National Association of Social Workers of Zimbabwe: NASW)

Kurevakwesu, W. 2021. COVID-19 and mental health services delivery at Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Zimbabwe: Lessons for psychiatric social work practice. International Social Work, 64(5). pp. 702-715. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211031973 (SAGE)

Kurevakwesu, W. 2021. Strategies of coping with the effects of HIV and AIDS in Chinamhora communal lands, Goromonzi Rural District, Zimbabwe. African Journal of AIDS Research, 20(1). pp. 70-78. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2021.1872665 (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)

Kurevakwesu, W. and Maushe, F. 2020. Towards Afrocentric social work: Plotting a new path for social work theory and practice in Africa through Ubuntu. African Journal of Social Work, 10(1). Special Issue on Ubuntu Social Work. pp. 30-35 (National Association of Social Workers of Zimbabwe: NASW)

Kurevakwesu, W. and Chizasa, S. 2020. Ubuntu and child welfare policy in Zimbabwe: A critical analysis of the National Orphan Care Policy’s Six-Tier System. African Journal of Social Work, 10(1). Special Issue on Ubuntu Social Work. pp. 89-94 (National Association of Social Workers of Zimbabwe: NASW)

Kurevakwesu, W. and Mukushi, A. 2018. Charitable work in a developing region: Why humanitarian work is mostly in the hands of foreign organizations in Africa. African Journal of Social Work, 8(1). pp. 56-62 (National Association of Social Workers of Zimbabwe: NASW)

Kurevakwesu, W. 2017. The social work profession in Zimbabwe: A critical approach on the position of social work on Zimbabwe’s development. Afro-Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 8(1). pp. 1-12  

Editorial Roles

Managing Editor –  Journal of Social Development in Africa (MSU School of Social Work)

Editorial Board Member – Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk journal (Stellenbosch University)

Assistant Editor – African Journal of Social Work (National Association of Social Workers – Zimbabwe)