Staff Profiles: Professors
Dr Nogget Matope
Position: Deputy Director Senior Research Fellow
Nogget Matope is interested in participatory visual methodologies for generating evidence-based knowledge that supports social change. She employs methods such as memory work, participatory video, collage, drawings and photovoice , enabling communities to share experiences and perspectives in powerful ways.
Her supervisory interests include MPhil and DPhil candidates working in the areas of gender-based violence, social inclusion, gender and the environment. Nogget's research philosophy emphasises qualitative approaches. Areas of research interest include:
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Gender issues
Leadership and gender empowerment
Gender- based violence
Social inclusion
Policy and advocacy
Prof Efiritha Chauraya
Position: Executive Director
Research Interests:
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Gender Issues in society
Gender issues in the curriculum
Curriculum Development issues
Gender and Political instability
Dr Tirivashe Phillip Masere
Position: Acting Deputy Dean
Research Interests:
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Soil and Water Conservation
Water Quality
Water Supply and Sanitation
Climate Change and Adaptation
Climate Smart Agriculture
Small Scale Farming Research
Agricultural Extension and Rural Resource Management
Crop Simulation Modeling
Technology Adoption and Innovation in Small-Scale Farming Systems
Dr R. Muranda
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Digital music production in the 21st century
Instrumental performance of mbira and western musical instruments.
Live sound reinforcement techniques.
Recording, mixing, and mastering music.
Virtual teaching and learning resources in the 21st century.
AI and music teaching-learning
Dr Luxwell C Ngara
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Cyber Security
IT Governance
Information Security
Dr Francis Muromo
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests
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Rural Development, development induced displacements and dynamics behind the sugarcane out grower model inherited from the colonial era.
Dr Daniel Mawere
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests
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Gender justice in education;
Gender and research productivity;
Gender violence and gender and policy issues.
Dr. Tendai Chirimaunga
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests:
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Lexicography and Corpus Building
Orthography Development
Translation and Terminology Development
Language Policy & Planning
Linguistics & Language Research
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Mr Prosper Mbire
Position: Lecturer
Research Areas:
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Embedded Systems for Satellite communications
Systems Security
Real Time Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Pr. Eng. Laurence Maregedze
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Machine design
Computational engineering
Digital Twin
Energy engineering
Industrial process automation and optimization
Artificial intelligence
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Finite element method
Andragogy
Mr. Eric Manyonda
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Indigenous institutions & Peace/climate change & Peace
Artificial intelligence & Peace
Research methods & Statistics
Governance, mobility & Trade
Mr Joburg Mahuyu
Position:
Research Interests
Research and consultancy in:
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Gender, Poverty and Inequality
Development Economics
Education, educational economics, Technical and Vocational Education (TVET)
Entrepreneurship
Environment and Climate Change
Ms Devotion Mahamba
Position: lecturer
Research Interests:
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Juvenile justice system
children and families' mental health
human rights
research
Indigenous knowledge systems
drug and substance use
Justice Muberekwa
Position: Technician
Research Interests:
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Biometry and Statistical Computing
Bioeconomic Systems Modelling
Behavioral Economics & Decision Science
