Staff Profiles: Professors

Dr Nogget Matope

Position: Acting Deputy Director Senior Research Fellow

 Research Interests:

    Gender issues Gender empowerment Gender- based violence Gender disability.

Professor Grace Mugumbate

Position: Pro Vice Chancellor: Research Innovation and Industrialisation.

Dr Vincent Chakunda

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Intergovernmental Relations, Local Government Administration, Comparative Local Government Systems, Traditional Leadership and Local Governance

Dr. Wonder Maguraushe

Position: Senior Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Applied Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Music performance, Marimba performance Music Technology Music Education

Dr Beauty Dzawanda

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Sustainable livelihoods and Community development Informal Cross Border Trading and sustainable development Environmental Issues that affect sustainability

Dr Charles Musarurwa

Position: Lecturer in Geography Education

Research Interests:

    Geography and Environmental Education, GIS and ICTs in Education, Disaster Risk Reduction, Inclusive Education, Climate Change Adaptation in Marginal Environments Indigenous Knowledge Systems Education for Sustainable development

Dr Fainos Chokera

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Relationship marketing and Customer relationship management International Marketing/International Business Post harvest Marketin/Agricultural Marketing (Value addition) Quality Management Consumer Behaviour

Dr Terence Tapiwa Muzorewa

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

    Rural and urban development  Food security and agrarian reform Cooperatives and collective development  Development Finance  History of development in Africa Development Theory 

Dr Tamisai Chipunza

Position: Lecturer

Research interests:

    Health Economics Development Economics

DR JONATHAN MREWA

Position: Researcher

Research Interests
    Monitoring and Evaluation Development work Social Work Disability education Disability Education Project management Child protection

Mr Peace Mukwara

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    African Theatre, Film and Television Identities and Performance Trends The Intersection of Cultural Productions, Media, and Politics Advertising, Copywriting, and Branding

Ms Pimpernel Garanganga

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Medicinal Chemistry Natural Products Chemistry Drug discovery and development Indigenous medicinal plants pharmaceuticals

Ms. Adele Mcilo

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests
    Youth Development Higher Education Gender Issues Politics and Governance

MISS SHARON MASINIRE

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:

    Corporate governance Employee engagement Human capital development Business law Entreprenuership 

Mrs Maureen Tshuma

Position: Lecturer

Research interests

    Gender and Development Public Health Issues Vulnerable Populations including AYLHIV HIV/AIDS Non Communicable Diseases: Cancers Population Displacement Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Linkages between health, poverty, risk and vulnerability with a particular interest in health systems development

Mr Taurai George Rebanowako

Position: Lecturer

Research interests:
    Data Science and Business Intelligence  Knowledge Representation  Computer Security  Mobile Computing  Wireless Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modelling Image Processing and Deep Learning

Mr Absolom Mutavati

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests

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

Mr Jonah Marawako

Position: Lecturer

Research Interests:
    Elections Conflict Transformation Foreign Policy

Nomatter Muringwa

Position: Technician

Research interests
    Food Chemistry  Food Safety

Terence Tachiona

Position: Research Fellow

Research Interests:

    Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computational Linguistics Data Science