Staff Profiles: Professors
Prof Jephias Matunhu
Position: Executive Director
Research Interests :
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Sustainable Rural Development
Climate change
Prof Andrew Tichaenzana Manyawu
Position: Chairperson
Research Interests :
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Critical discourse analysis (religious, political, and pedagogical discourses) Language curriculum
Ms Petronella Katekwe
Position: Chairperson
Research Interests :
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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
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Financial Economics
Macroeconomics and Development Finance
Prof Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Autobiography and identities,
Gender and nationalism,
Postcoloniality and Bakhtinian dialogism in African literature.
Professor William Lungisani Chigidi
Position: Senior Language Researcher-Shona
Research interests
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Indigenous knowledge systems
Literature
Oral literature
African culture.
Detective fiction.
Mr Martin Charumbira
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research interests
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Public sector Economics,
Poverty and HIV/AIDS,
Trade and Development and Economic Models and Policy Analysis
Dr Richard Muranda
Position: Lecturer
Research interests
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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 Farai Ncube
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Industrial Relations
Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy
Corporate Governance
Comparative Industrial Relations
Strategic Human Resource Management
Ms Vimbai Chamisa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Popular music,
Applied Ethnomusicology,
Historical musicology
Mrs Vonai Chirasha
Position: Lecturer
Research Interest:
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Emotional Intelligence,
Human Resource Development,
Human Resource Policy & Practice,
Training & Development,
Organisational Behaviour
HIV & AIDS at workplace.
Mr Mpumelelo Moyo
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Church History,
Church and Politics,
Spirituality,
Religion and Education,
Practical Theology.
Ms Primrose Mawire
Position: Lecturer
Research Interest:
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African Literature,
Postcoloniality,
Nationalism,
Identity,
Gender and Childhood discourses
