Professor Emmanuel Chabata
Emmanuel Chabata is an Associate Professor of African Linguistics and is currently the Acting Executive Director and Academic Programmes Specialist in the Quality Assurance and Professional Development Directorate, University of Zimbabwe (UZ). He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oslo, Norway. He obtained a Master of Arts, a Bachelor of Arts Special Honours and a Bachelor of Arts General degree, all from the UZ. He joined the UZ as a Teaching Assistant in 1997, became a permanent Research Fellow in 2000, a Senior Research Fellow in 2012 and an Associate Research Professor in 2015. He became the Academic Programmes Specialist in 2020.
Whilst his current area of research and work is Quality Assurance, his other research interests lie in Lexicography, Terminology, Computational Linguistics, Translation, Onomastics and Language Planning and Policy where he has published widely. He has been a visiting scholar and external examiner at various local, regional and international universities, some of which include the Midlands State University, University of Botswana, University of Zambia, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Namibia, Tswane University of Technology, University of Pretoria, University of Witwatersrand, University of Zululand, University of Oslo, Renmin University of China and University of Wisconsin.
In his capacity as the Quality Assurance - Academic Programmes Specialist, and together with colleagues in the Directorate, he spearheaded preparations for accreditation of the UZ’s new academic programmes with ZIMCHE in 2020. He has facilitated at numerous quality assurance workshops within the UZ, some of which include programme development and module designing, induction of new lecturers, development of faculty standard operating procedures and Education 5.0 innovative teaching and learning methodologies. He has also participated in some of Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education activities and assignments.
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