Staff Profiles: Professors
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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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.
AI in teaching and learning of music
Dr Robson Mandishekwa
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research areas:
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Economics
Internal Displacement
Happiness economics
Dr. Vincent Jenjekwa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Sociolinguistics
Onomastics
Linguistic Landscapes
Language Planning and Policy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Language in Education
Academic and Professional Communication
Dr. Tevedzerai Gijimah
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Discourse analysis
Sociolinguistics
Afrocentric Studies
Language politics
Media discourse
Dr. Vimbai M. Matiza
Position: Senior Lecturer/ A/ Chairperson
Research Interests:
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Oral Literature
Language and Cultural issues
Onomastics
Politics and Gender discourses
Discourse analysis
Dr Charles K Changunda
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Drug design and development
Medicinal chemistry
Biocatalysts
Synthesis, hydrogenation and production of biofuels
Transition Metal cross-coupled transformations
Agrochemical and Value-Added Chemicals Research
Water Treatment
Dr Peace Mukwara
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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African Theatre, Film and Television Identities and Performance Trends
Environmental activism, decolonising environmental activism
The Intersection of Cultural Productions, Media, and Politics
Advertising, Copywriting, Graphic Design and Branding
Dr. Allan Tapiwa Maganga
Position: Research Fellow
Research Interests:
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African Studies
Ethnolinguistic Studies
Dr. Ngceboyakwethu Primrose Zinyama
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Drug discovery and development
Cheminformatics
Medicinal Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Mr Thamsanqa Maphosa
Position: Language Researcher
Research Interests:
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Translation
Language Policy and Planning
Ndebele Culture
Language and Education
Onomastics
Sinikiwe Mapangisana
Position: Language Researcher
Research Interests:
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Language and Gender
Speech Therapy
Language Planning and Policy
MR KUMBIRAI NICHOLAS MATINGO
Position: Assistant Lecturer / Staff Development Fellow
Research Interests:
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Spatial Dimensions of Public Health and Health Geography
Climate Change Impacts on Health
Spatial Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance
Applications of Geographic Information Science (GISc) for Sustainable Development
Earth Observation Technologies for Enhancing Livelihoods and Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (Space4SDGs)
Mr. Oscar Mujana
Position: Research Officer
Research Interests:
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International Political Economy (Multilateral Institutions; Economic Sanctions; Illicit Financial Flows; Debt)
Emerging Powers-BRICS Economies
Local governance
Digitalisation for public service delivery
Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (National and Local voluntary Reviews)
Mr Obert Manyasa
Position: Software Developer (ML/NLP)
Research Interests:
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Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Machine Learning & Deep Learning Engineering
Applied AI for Language Technologies
Software Project Management for AI/ML
Mr Zwidzai Chinyowa
Position: Researcher
Research Interests:
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Language and Technology
Computational Linguistics
Language Digitisation
Mr. Tendai Chirimaunga
Position: Researcher - ChiBarwe
Research Interests:
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phonology
morphology
lexicography
terminography
translation and interpretation
sociolinguistics
language policy and planning
indigenous knowledge systems
Amon Mudenda
Position: Researcher - Tonga
Research Interests
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Onomastics
Tonga morphology
Tonga culture and gender
Education and culture