Staff Profiles: Professors

Prof Jephias Matunhu

Position: Executive Director

Research Interests :
    Sustainable Rural Development Climate change

Prof Andrew Tichaenzana Manyawu

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests : 
    Critical discourse analysis (religious, political, and pedagogical discourses) Language curriculum

Dr Ephraim Vhutuza

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests: 
    Drama, Theatre African Literature

Mr Richard Duve

Position: Acting Campus Director : Kwekwe Campus

Ms Petronella Katekwe

Position: Chairperson

Research Interests :
    Liberation Heritage, Intangible Heritage and Memory Studies, Records and Archives Administration

Prof Advice Viriri (PhD)

Position: Campus Director- Zvishavane Campus

Research interests               Film and Theatre Arts  and African literature, especially, Zimbabwean literature by revealing how Pungwe, an oral institution, finds  permanent residence  in the narrative interstices of  both the Shona  and English novels.

Prof Laurine Chikoko

Position: Associate Professor

Research Interests
    Financial Economics Macroeconomics and Development Finance

Prof Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Autobiography and identities, Gender and nationalism, Postcoloniality and Bakhtinian dialogism in African literature.

Professor William Lungisani Chigidi

Position: Senior Language Researcher-Shona

Research interests
    Indigenous knowledge systems Literature Oral literature African culture. Detective fiction.

Mr Martin Charumbira

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research interests
    Public sector Economics,  Poverty and HIV/AIDS,  Trade and Development and Economic Models and Policy Analysis

Dr Richard Muranda

Position: Lecturer

Research interests
    Recording, Mixing and Mastering audio, Live sound reinforcement, Microphone techniques, Technology for music instruction and music education, Keyboard and Mbira performance, Musical sound and acoustics, Studio designs,

Dr Claudio Chipendo

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    African Music and Dance

Dr Farai Ncube

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Industrial Relations  Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy Corporate Governance Comparative Industrial Relations Strategic Human Resource Management

Mr. Isaac Machafa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Ethnomusicology, Anthropology

Ms Vimbai Chamisa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Popular music, Applied Ethnomusicology, Historical musicology

Mrs Tendai Shoko

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Music education, music performance

Mrs Vonai Chirasha

Position: Lecturer

Research Interest: 
    Emotional Intelligence, Human Resource Development, Human Resource Policy & Practice, Training & Development, Organisational Behaviour HIV & AIDS at workplace.

Mr Mpumelelo Moyo

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Church History, Church and Politics, Spirituality, Religion and Education, Practical Theology.

Ms Primrose Mawire

Position: Lecturer

Research Interest:  
    African Literature, Postcoloniality, Nationalism, Identity, Gender and Childhood discourses

Mr Alfred Mafuka

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Change Management, Operations Management