MPhil/DPhil Supervisors

SUPERVISOR’S DATABASE

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

Professor Gideon Zhou

• Public Finance
• Budgeting
• Institutional Governance
• Public Policy analysis
• Public Sector Reforms

• Policy, Rural Development
• Poverty Reduction and Social development
• Social Protection, Research Methods (Qualitative)
• Human Rights and Social Justice
• Social Work
• Social Justice

Professor Innocent Chirisa

• Rural and Urban Housing Policy and Delivery
• Urban Informality and Land Management
• Ideologies of Planning
• Environmental Planning and Management
• Urban Policy and Planning
• Peri-urban Planning and Management
• Systems Thinking for Rural and Urban Planning
• Environmental Health and Anaesthetics

Dr Gwatirera Javangwe

• Forensic Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Community Psychology
• Transport and Traffic Psychology
• Environmental Psychology
• Health Psychology

Dr S Mhizha

• HIV/Aids, Mental Health, Cancer, health and psychological aspects
• Public Health Psychology including Psychology and Traditional Medicine
• Community Psychology
• Sport psychology
• Leaning and Behaviour
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychology of Religion
• Psychology of Eyewitness
• Identification Evidence

• Government and Politics in Zimbabwe
• International security theory and practice
• Comparative security and peacebuilding
• Contemporary strategic thought

• Social Policy
• Sexuality
• Climate Change
• Rural Development
• Gerentology

• Human Resources Management
• Public sector management
• Governance
• Public sector development

• Political economy
• International economic relations
• Decolonization
• leftist studies
• Youth
• Higher educational transformation

• Public administration and democratic governance
• Devolution and Decentralisation
• Local Government Management
• Public Sector Management Reforms, programme evaluation
• public finance management
• public procurement
• corruption
• institutional building
• public policy

• Sociology of everyday life in Africa spaces focusing on livelihoods,
• agrarian studies,
• social identities,
• sport and gender

• Migration and Family Studies
• Gender and Development
• Rural and Urban livelihoods
• Food and security
• Resilience Building

• Health
• Gender and Sexuality

Dr S Muqayi

• International Relations & Political Science,
• Global Political Economy
• Foreign Policy & Diplomacy, Politics
• Governance in Africa
• Regional Integration

Dr Pius Shungudzapera Nyambara

• Agrarian Studies
• Environmental History
• African Slavery and Comparative Slavery

Professor Charity Manyeruke

• International Relations
• Politics and Governance in Africa
• Gender
• International Trade

Dr A Matamanda

Prof W Musakwa

Professor Marvelous M Mhloyi

• Fertility and Family Planning
• Reproductive Health
• Health Intervention Programmes
• Population and Development
• Gender and Population Policies
• HIV and AIDS Intervention and Evaluation

Prof Stanzia Moyo

• Sexual Reproductive Health Issues
• Family Planning
• Reproductive Health (male, adolescents, women, youths)
• Gender-based violence
• Morbidity and Mortality (cancer, diabetes, hypertension, HIV and AIDS),
• Demographic Methods and Analysis,
• Gender and Migration.

• Sociology & Anthropology of Health &Illness
• Cultural Tourism
• Alternative Health Care
• Political Sociology
• Sociology of Law

Professor Billy Billard Mukamuri

• Environmental and Natural Resource Management
• Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Monitoring
• Social Innovation and Institutional Analysis
• Scenario Planning
• Socio-Economic Surveys
• Stakeholder Mapping or Analysis/power/interest and influence matrices
• Social Impact Assessments
• Environmental Impact Assessments and Safeguard
• Environmental and Social Engagement Plans
• Climate change, Resilience Building and
• Technology Adoption Studies

• Value Chain Analysis
• Use of ICT in Agricultural Development
• Agricultural Marketing
• Adoption and Development of Appropriate Technologies in Agriculture
• Climate Smart Agriculture
• Assessing Welfare and Economic Impacts Evaluation of Agricultural Programmes

Dr Tafadzwa Chevo

• Urban Sociology
• Livelihoods in Urban Areas
• Climate Change in Africa Cities
• Life course Studies and Qualitative Research

Professor Albert Makochekanwa

• International Economics
• Econometrics
• Economics and Social Science Issues

Dr Jackqeline Mutambara

• Agricultural Trade Theory
• Advanced Microeconomics
• Theory of Agriculture

Professor Kefasi Nyikahadzoi

• Institutions for Natural Resources Management
• Rural Development
• Issues in Rural Livelihoods
• Policy formulation

Dr B Mahembe

• Organisational Psychology
• Personnel Psychology
• Occupational Health and Welfare
• Strategic Management, Ethics and Leadership

Dr A Murwira

• Peacebuilding
• International Relations
• Political Science

• Urban and Regional Planning
• Transportation Planning
• Infrastructure and services
• Sustainable Human Settlements

• Child protection
• Social Protection
• Social Development
• Disaster Risk Management

Dr Wilbert Z Sadomba

• Policy Studies

• International Relations
• Foreign Policy

• Child protection
• Social Security
• Community Development
•  Livelihoods

• Livelihoods and Migration Studies
• Culture and Tourism Studies
• Qualitative Research Methodologies
• Gender
• Social Policy and Leadership Development

• Population and Development
• Aging
• Sexual
• Reproductive Health
• Health and Development

• Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Fertility
• Morbidity and mortality
• Migration
• Gender-Based Violence
• Gender and Population
• Gender and Economic Development.

• Climate Change Education Awareness and Training
• Youth Development
• Census Data Analysis
• Migration Profiles
• Reproductive Health