Dr. I. T. Mahiya - Dean of the Faculty of Social & Gender Transformative Sciences

Dr I.T. Mahiya

Education and Qualifications

2016                PhD in Sociology, Rhodes University

2010                MSc in Sociology and Anthropology, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

2008                BSc Honours in Sociology, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Overview

Dr Innocent T. Mahiya is the Dean for the Faculty of Gender and Transformative Sciences.  He is a Sociologist with over 9 years of experience in teaching, supervision and examination of MSc and BSc dissertations in Anthropology and Sociology. His research and teaching interests are in rural development, research methods and gender. He is well grounded in rural development and food security issues among communal areas having spent three years reading for a PhD in the same area. One of the key dimensions of Dr. Mahiya’s PhD focuses on food security through a rights based approach among small scale farmers. Dr Mahiya has done researches and published in international journals. He has also done funded research with local and international organisations. His current research work is on the impact of mobile money on society, adoption of innovation platforms in Zimbabwe as well as food security in rural areas, violence against children.

Selected Published Materials

1. a) Mahiya I.T. (2011) Meanings that residents of Budiriro attach on Cholera Illness.
2. b) Mahiya I.T. and Gukurume S. (2015), Managing, negotiating, and converting “currency” in daily life in a multicurrency environment of Zimbabwe. IMTFI, University of California, USA.
3. c) Mahiya I.T (2016), Transforming small scale communal farmers through adopting innovation platforms. A case of Hwedza District. ACBF Knowledge Book Series.
4. d) Mahiya I.T and Murombo G. (2016), An exploratory study on the social norms aspects that underpin violence against children in bush boarding. In Zimbabwe Child Monitor, Ending Violence Against Children, Zimbabwe.
5. e) Mahiya I.T (2018), Agricultural Production systems of small scale farmers in Hwedza in the context of innovation platforms. Routledge, London and New York
6. f) Mahiya I.T. and Gukurume S. (2015), Managing, negotiating, and converting “currency” in daily life in a multicurrency environment of Zimbabwe. IMTFI, University of California, USA.
7. g) Mahiya I.T. (2016), Urban youth unemployment in the context of a dollarised economy in Zimbabwe. Commonwealth Youth and Development, Volume 14 Issue 1 pp 67-116