Lecturer

Dr Thebeth Rufaro Masunda

Qualifications: Bachelor of Community and Development (Honours), Master of Development Studies and PhD in Development Studies from University of KwaZulu Natal (KZN).

Bio: Dr. Thebeth, Rufaro Masunda is the chairperson and a Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of Community and Social Development at the University of Zimbabwe. She holds a Bachelor of Community and Development (Honours), Master of Development Studies and PhD in Development Studies from University of KwaZulu Natal (KZN). She is the Programme Coordinator for the BSc Social Innovation and BSc Smart Technology Applications degree programme, as well as the University Wide Digital Skills and Student Life Skills modules. Her research interests are in Migration and Family Studies, Social and Economic Development, Education and Development. As an academic, development practitioner and researcher she does research in socio-economic welfare of the marginalised groups in society. She has conducted extensive research on migration between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Most her research focused on the effects of migration on migrants and their family members during the migration period.  Her studies also investigated remittance transfers and transnational lives of migrants. Dr Masunda’s research interests are in social innovation, family studies, poverty and inequality and the education and development nexus. Dr Masunda as Editorial Member for the UZ PRESS, FIIB Business Review, Journal of Public Policy in Africa (JOPPA), as well as an External Examiner of PhD dissertations at the Women’s University.

Research Interests: Socio-economic welfare of marginalised group, Migration and family Studies, Poverty and Inequality, Gender and Social Development

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Phone Number: +263 775789347

Publications and Research Profiles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=L5-IIFUAAAAJ