Staff Profiles: Professors
Dr Terence Mashingaidze
Position: Campus Director - MSU Harare Campus
Research Interests:
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Early & modern sub-Saharan African history;
Early & modern World History;
Health and healing in Africa;
Women and gender in Africa;
Environmental history;
African-American history.
Dr Willard Mugadza
Position: Chairperson Private Law
Research Interests
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Public procurement law,
Anti-corruption law,
International economic law,
International trade law, AfCFTA
Administrative law and public international law.
Decoloniality
Jurisprudence
African governance systems and democracy
Dr Robson Mandishekwa
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research areas:
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Economics
Internal Displacement
Happiness economics
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. 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
Dr Naome Rajah
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Local Governance,
E-Government,
Public administration,
Environmental Management,
Local Government Administration,
Land Reform, Human Settlements and Governance,
Service Delivery,
Rural and Urban Development,
Project Management,
Human Rights and Governance,
Inclusive Service Delivery,
Strategic Planning.
Dr Samuel Simbarashe Furusa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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eHealth
Computer Security
Big Data Analytics
Cloud Computing
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
Miss Cynthia Gauya
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Behavioral Science
Digital HR Transformation
Industrial Relations & Labor Dynamics
Gender & the world of work
Mr Absolom Mutavati
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Music recording,
Mixing and Mastering,
Live sound reinforcement,
Microphone techniques,
Sound acoustics,
Studio designs.
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
Amon Mudenda
Position: Researcher - Tonga
Research Interests
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Onomastics
Tonga morphology
Tonga culture and gender
Education and culture
