Staff Profiles: Professors
Dr Robson Mandishekwa
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research areas:
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Economics
Internal Displacement
Happiness economics
Dr Leon Poshai
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Public Policy Analysis
Digital Governance
Public Administration
Dr. Maxwell Haurovi
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Public Administration
Democracy and the Developmental State
Welfare State, Social Security and Social Protection
Public Policy
Ethics and professionalisation of Public Management
Dr Innocent Pahla
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Biological control options, agents, predators, parasitoids, and plant-insect pest interactions and biopesticides (botanical pesticides).
Sustainable production systems
Dr. Vincent Jenjekwa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Sociolinguistics
Onomastics
Linguistic Landscapes
Language Planning and Policy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Language in Education
Academic and Professional Communication
Dr. Tevedzerai Gijimah
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Discourse analysis
Sociolinguistics
Afrocentric Studies
Language politics
Media discourse
Dr. Vimbai M. Matiza
Position: Senior Lecturer/ A/ Chairperson
Research Interests:
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Oral Literature
Language and Cultural issues
Onomastics
Politics and Gender discourses
Discourse analysis
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.
Mrs Victoria S Masere
Position: Lecturer
Research interests:
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Public Finance
Agricultural Economics
Climate Change
Family Economics
Macroeconomics
Develoment Economics
Industrial Economics
Mr. J. Masimba
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Human Settlements and Governance
Local Economic Development
Rural and Urban Development
Social Media and Citizen Participation
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
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