Research Focus Areas
Faculty Of Agriculture Environment And Food Systems
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT AND FOOD SYSTEMS |
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Agricultural Economics |
Agribusiness Development; Natural Resources Economics; Rural Development. |
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Animal Science |
Ruminant and Monogastric Nutrition; Diary Science and Technology; Public Health. |
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Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering |
Irrigations and Drainage Engineering; Environmental Systems Engineering; Land, Water and Environmental Management; Post-Harvest, Science and Technology; Food Processing; Stored Products Entomology; Systems Analysis and Simulations Modelling; Food Biotechnology Functional Foods; Bioprocess and Fermentation Technology; Agricultural Mechanization; Farming Systems Analysis; Restoration Ecology; Ecohydrology; Climate Change Adaptation; Pesticides and the Environment; Bio Pesticides; Biodiversity Conservation and Management. |
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Crop Science |
Biodiversity ; Farming Systems and Agricultural Development |
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Soil Science |
Post-Harvest Science and Technology; Pesticides and the Environment; Stored Product Entomology; Land Use and Evaluation; Natural Resources Management. |
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FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES |
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African Languages & Literature |
Literature and Cultural Studies; Onomastics; Discourse Analysis; Popular/Cultural Studies; Theories of Literature; Oral Literature; Languages and Gender; Literature; Popular Music; Children’s Literature; Gender Studies; Language Planning; Interpreting and Language Planning; Policy and Management; Dialects and Orthography; Language Change; Comparative Bantu; Lexicography; Corpus Linguistics; Translation. |
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Economic History |
Agrarian Studies; Environmental History; Water/Irrigation Studies; Labour Studies; Migration and Gender History; Mining; Social and Economic Change; Agribusiness; Urban History. |
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English |
African World Studies; Pan African Culture; Second Language Acquisition; Language; Literature; Literature and Gender. |
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History |
Spatial Archaeology; Enthnoarchaeology; Cultural Tourism; Farming Communities; Heritage Management ; Archaeological Site Management; Pre History of Southern Africa; Archaeological Theory; Rock Art; Conservation of Artistic Expressions; Liberation War; War and Strategic Studies; Socio-environmental History; Peace Education; Security Migration; Labour Migration; Political History; Belonging; Violence; Gender in History. |
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Modern Languages |
French and Francophone Literatures; Queer and Gender Studies; Onomastics; Comparative Literature. |
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Linguistics |
Syntax and its Interfaces with Semantics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Phonology; Speech Impairments; Sign Language; Morphology; Semantics; Psycholinguistics; Phonetics; Syntax; Sociolinguistics and its Interfaces with Syntax; Language and Gender; Discourse Studies; Corpus Linguistics; Translation and Interpretation; Sign Language Issues. |
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Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy |
African Traditional Religion; Pentecostalism; World Religions; Religion and Ethics; Phenomenology of Religion; Women in Religion; Old Testament; Philosophical Ethics; Logic; Philosophy of Education; History of Philosophy; African Philosophy; Classical Studies; Religious and Ethical Issues; Ecology; Human Rights; Gender; Sexuality; Interreligious Dialogue. |
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Theatre Arts |
African Cultural Studies; Performance Studies; Television and Identity Studies; Film; Representation; Scenography; Dance; Music; Disability Studies; Gender and Performance; Politics; Democracy and Performance; Youth; HIV and Sexuality; Masculinity Visual Studies; Stagecraft and Design; Ritual Studies. |
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FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES |
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Anatomy |
Anatomy; Neurosurgery; Health Economics. |
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Clinical Pharmacology |
Clinical Pharmacokinetics; Clinical Toxicology; Pharmacogenetics; Drug Utilisation; Pharmacogenomics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Drug Safety; Human Genetics; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Pharmacotheraputics/ARVs. |
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Community Medicine |
Biostatistics; Public Health; Occupational Health; Public Health Medicine; Health Financing; Evaluation and Management. |
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Chemical Pathology |
Lipids; Metabolic Diseases; Cancer Diseases; Liver and GIT Diseases; Clinical Enzymology; Plasma Protein Disorder; Biological Reference Values; Laboratory Management. |
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Dentistry |
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. |
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Immunology |
Immunovirogenetics of HIV/AIDS and TB; Signal Transduction and Skin Cancers; Immunology; Virology; Clinical Immunology; Clinical Sciences; Dermatological; Malign. |
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Medical Microbiology |
Bacteriology; Mycology; Parasitology; Molecular Biology. |
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Medical Laboratory Sciences |
Infectious Diseases; Medical Microbiology; Clinical Epidemiology; Medical Diagnostics; Clinical Biochemistry. |
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Medicine |
HIV- Infectious Disease; Cardiology; Cancer; HIV/AIDS. |
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Nursing Science |
Community Health; Maternal Child Health. |
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
Andrology; Reproductive Epidemiology; Molecular Diagnostics. |
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Ophthalmology |
Ophthalmology. |
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Pharmacy |
Therapeutics; Medicinal Chemistry; Medicinal Plants; Applied Toxicology. |
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Paediatrics and Child Health |
Paediatrics Infectious Diseases. |
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Radiology |
Radiation Oncology; Radiation Effects and Protection and DRLS. |
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Surgery |
Plastics; Nuerosurgery; Urology. |
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION |
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Adult Education |
Adult Literacy; Rural Development and Training; Gender and Management; Adult Participation non-participation in Learning Programmes; Non-formal Education. |
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Curriculum and Arts Education |
Literature in English – Prose, Poetry and Drama; Shona Literature; Gender Studies; Children’s Literature; The Teaching of English; Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism; Curriculum Planning and Evaluation; Curriculum Studies and Educational Psychology; Curriculum Analysis; ESL Classroom Discourse; Analysis of Social Conversation; Onomastics; Folkore; Indigenous Knowledge; Biblical Studies; Religious Education. |
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Educational Administration |
Leadership and Supervision of Education Personnel; Measurement and Evaluation; Economics of Education; Educational Business Administration; Quality Management in Education; Educational Organisational Development; Project Management and Evaluation; Gender Issues in Education; Educational Planning and Development; Policy Studies in Education; Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness. |
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Educational Foundations |
Psychometrics; Educational Psychology; Research Statistics and Music; Philosophy and Philosophy of Education; Indigenous Philosophies and Knowledge Systems; Indigenous Philosophies of Education; Citizenship Education; Human Rights Education; Philosophy for Children; Disability Rights; Politics and Policy Analysis; Disability and (Inclusive) Development; Inclusive Education (Early Childhood to Higher Education); Disability in Relation to Gender, Religion and Economic Empowerment; Postcolonial Theory; Media and HIV/AIDS; Disability and Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Community Based Rehabilitation; Emancipatory Disability Research. |
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Science and Mathematics Education |
Mathematics; Learning and Instruction of School Mathematics and Mathematical Problem Solving Processes; Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Contexts for Developing Mathematical Concepts and Thinking; Mathematics Teacher Classroom Practices and Approaches; Mathematics Curriculum Materials Development (Including Teaching/Learning Software); Mathematics Learning Assessment; Mathematics Teaching/Learning Effectiveness. |
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Teacher Education |
Curriculum; Teacher Education; Distance and Open Learning Supervision and Evaluation; Institutional Development; Distance and Open Learning Systems; Early Childhood Education; Child Development Research; Music and Culture; Music Education. |
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Technical Education |
Design and Technology; Teacher Education; Distance Education; Research and Development; Product Development and Evaluation. |
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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT |
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Civil Engineering |
Structural Engineering; Computer-aided Analysis/Design; Water Infrastructure; Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering; Water and Wastewater Engineering; Applied Water Quality Management; Water Resources Management and Hydrology; Traffic and Transport Engineering; Renewable Energy. |
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Electrical Engineering |
Power Engineering; Renewable Energy |
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Metallurgical Engineering |
Project Development; Energy Utilisation; Biochemical and Chemical Processing; Fertilizer Production; Heat and Mass Transmission Minerals Processing; Chemical Energy. |
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FACULTY OF LAW
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Public Law Private Law Procedural Law |
Constitutional Law; Labour Law; Corporate Law; Banking Law; Tax Law; International Human Rights Law; International Law; Human Rights Law; Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law. |
| Women’s Law |
Women and Access to Justice; Women and Access to Socio-Economic Rights; Women and Issues of Discrimination. |
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FACULTY OF SCIENCE |
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Chemistry |
Organic Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Food Safety Chemistry; Neuro Chemistry; Green Chemistry; Nuclear Chemistry; Atmospheric Chemistry; Flavour Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Material Chemistry; Electro Chemistry. |
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Geography and Environmental Science |
Geographical Information Systems (GISc); Earth Observation; Global Navigation Systems (GNS); Environmental Systems Analysis and Monitoring; Spatial Ecology; Spatial Statistics; The Human Environment; Precision Agriculture; Spatial Epidemiology. |
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Institute of Food Nutrition and Food Science |
Product Development; Food Safety; Nutrition. |
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Biochemistry |
Nutritional Biochemistry; Biochemical Pharmacology; Biotechnology; Immunology; Nutritional Biochemistry; Parasite Biochemistry; Lectin Biochemistry; Regenerative Biomedicine. |
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Geology |
Economic Geology; Medical Geology; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; Petrology. |
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Physics |
Agrometeorology; Agrometeorological Instrumentation for Precision Agriculture; Biosystems Engineering; Bioscience Engineering; Materials Science; Renewable Energy; Nanotechnology and Nanoscience; Materials Characterisation; Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change; Climate Modelling, Meteorology, Atmospheric Science/Physics; Cloud Microphysics; Numerical Weather Prediction; Applied Optics and Photonics; Microcontroller-based Monitoring Systems; Electronics and Telecommunications. |
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Mathematics |
Mathematical Modelling; Pure Mathematics; Graph Theory. |
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Computer Science |
Database Systems; Modelling of Mobile Phone Solutions (Placement of Base Stations and Solution of Calling Packages). |
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Biological Sciences |
Botany; Taxonomy and Applied; Medical and Veterinary Entomology; Natural Resource Management; Conversation Biology; General and Applied Entomology; Entomophagy/Edible Insects; Insect Pollinators; Natural Resource Management; Aquatic Ecology; Limnology; Aquaculture; Fisheries; Ethnobotany;Savanna Ecology; Ecosystem Services and Social Ecology (including Participatory Methods); Community Forestry and Agroforestry; Plant Natural Products; Microbiology; Plant Physiology and Ecology; Wildlife and Rangelands Management and Molecular Biology; Fish Health and Parasitology. |
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Statistics |
Estimation Theory; Actuarial Statistics; Quality Control, Biometrics, Time Series, Multi Variate Statistics. |
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FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES |
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| CASS | Policy Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Management and Governance. |
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Centre for Population Studies |
Reproductive Health; Population and Development Mitigation; Health Intervention Programmes; Gender and Population Policies; Migration; Mortality; Fertility; HIV and AIDS Intervention and Evaluation; Population and Environment; Population and Contemporary Problems; Child Malnutrition and Family Planning; Population Projections. |
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Economics |
Monetary and Financial Economics; Debt; Regional Integration; Labour Economics; Industrial Economics; International Economics; Applied Econometrics; Agricultural Marketing; Agricultural Policy; Agricultural Development and Policy; Applied Microeconomics; Development Economics, Small Enterprise Development and Local Economic Development; Corruption Economics; International Trade. |
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Political and Administrative Studies |
International Relations; Politics and Governance in Africa; Gender; International Trade; International Relations and Foreign Policy; Public Finance; Budgeting; Institutional Governance; Public Policy Analysis; Public Sector Reforms; Political Philosophy; National Governments; International Strategic Studies; Politics and Governance; Civil Society; Climate Change; Sino-Africa Relations; Chinese Studies; Foreign Policy; Public Administration; Public Policy; Public Policy Development; Political Science; Asian Studies. |
| Sociology | Urban Poverty; Forced Immigration; Rural Development; Policy; Urban Livelihood. |
| Psychology | Developmental Psychology; Health Psychology. |
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FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCES |
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Clinical Veterinary Studies |
Veterinary Epidemiology; Veterinary Public Health; Herd Health in Particular Mastitis and Fertility; Ruminant Medicine. |
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Paraclinical Veterinary Studies |
Veterinary Parasitology; Veterinary Bacteriology/Mycology. |