Staff Profiles: Professors

Professor (Fellow) Dr G Chikowore

Position: Associate Professor

Research Interests:

    Transformation, regional integration, local communities, international aid development cooperation forestry digital technology green economy.

Dr Piwai Tshuma

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

    Preparation of Metal-Organic Frameworks with functional groups for heterogeneous catalysis.

Dr Anias Mutekwa

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

    Literature,  gender and identity. Coloniality and decoloniality in literature. Zimbabwean and African Literature. Ecocriticism Literary theory and Criticism

Dr Julia Mutambara

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research interests

    Positive Psychology Developmental psychology Health psychology Trauma healing and coping Women`s mental health Bereavement Implementation Science

Dr Francis Muromo

Position: Research Fellow

Research Interests

    Rural Development, development induced displacements and dynamics behind the sugarcane out grower model inherited from the colonial era.

Dr Takunda Maodza

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

Media and Politics, Data Journalism, Investigative Journalism 

Dr Precious Dube

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Applied Linguistics gender studies Climate change Multilingualism Second language Acquisition Communication

Dr. Sheunesu Mandizvidza

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Interface between history and literature (Auto)biography Life writing Academic and Professional Communication Land literature Memory Studies

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. S. Matindike

Position: Lecturer

Research interests (21 research publications to date):

Dr Winmore Kusena

Position: RESEARCH MANAGER

Research Areas:

    Aspects of Human Geography Water Governance Sustainable household livelihood Environmental Assessment & Management

Dr Mellisa Brenda Sagandira

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:  
    Pharmaceutical drug synthesis Organic synthesis Continuous flow chemistry
 

Mr Scott Mamimine

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law and Human Rights Law

Mrs M Nemaura

Position: Lecturer

Research interests: 

    Electrochemistry Environmental remediation Material chemistry Industrial Chemistry

Mr Absolom Mutavati

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

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

Mr Coaster Mabanga

Position: Lecturer

Research interests: 
    Nanomaterial synthesis Electrochemistry Sensing technologies
Energy storage

Lindani Mpinami

Position: Assistant lecturer

Research Interests:
    Cultural studies language development Climate change  translation studies gender studies

Mr Kure Godfrey

Position: Field Technician

Limukani T Dube

Position:

Research Interests:
    Development of marginalised languages sociolinguistics identity and onomastics