Dr Admire CHERENI (Ph.D.)
Curriculum Vitae
Born on:
1 July 1980 in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
Resides at:
Number 1399 Sugarbush Drive, Bluffhill.
Mobile Contacts (South Africa): +27 (0) 76 199 3954 I Mobile Contacts (Zimbabwe):+263 (0)
782664083
Email: admirechereni@gmail.com
RELEVANT WORK HISTORY
Accomplished the following Qualifications:
Ph.D. Social Work, MSc Social Ecology, Bachelor of Social Work Honours
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RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2014 [Oct – current]
Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE), Mashonaland
Central, Zimbabwe. Social Work Department & Peace and
Governance Department – Lecturer (Full Time, Probation)
Duties and expected deliverables include:
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Facilitating learning at under-graduate level through teaching & examining
undergraduate Social Work modules – “Introduction to Social Work”, “Introduction to
social anthropology,” “Disaster Management, “Socio-economic Development I”, and
“Socio-economic Development II”.
Facilitating learning at post-graduate levels through teaching Master of Science in Peace
and Governance module – “Culture and conflict”.
Contributing to BUSE’s research profile through supervising Master of Science in Peace
and Governance Students
Contributing to BUSE’s research profile through supervising 26 Bachelor of Social Work
Honours Students.
Establishing collaborative the university with industrial, commercial and public
organisation.
Serving as Faculty representative in the Public Lectures Committee
In the Public Lectures Committee, liaising with leading experts, politicians and grassroots
representatives to deliver lectures & organising public lectures
Serving as the Faculty representative in the Library Committee where I work in teamdriven initiatives to meet the information needs of the University through fund-raising,
collaborations & sourcing of texts & other resources
Serving as alternate Head of Department of Social Work and in that capacity, overseeing
administrative, teaching & learning & other functions of the Department.
2012 [Nov to Oct 2014]
Centre for Anthropological Research (CfAR), University of
Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa – Research Fellow
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Initiating and sustaining collaborations in research and dissemination of findings.
Contributing to team-driven research proposals at CfAR
Leading research projects and project components as assigned by the Director or Project
Lead.
Developing proposals for research and capacity building in the areas of research
application.
Publishing at least three articles per year in peer-reviewed journal articles accredited by
the Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa.
2011 [Oct - Oct 2012]
Centre for Anthropological Research (CfAR), University of
Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa – Research
Specialist (Full-time)
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Conducting data analysis in a team-driven, DFID-funded world-wide systematic review
research project on micro-finance.
Disseminating research findings from research projects including the DFID-funded
systematic review on micro-finance.
Coordinating data collection and analysis activities in the Collaboration for Environmental
Evidence Research and Capacity Building Programme designed to map priorities for
systematic review for environmental management.
Contributing to team-driven research proposals at CfAR and implementing and leading
project components as assigned by the Director or Project Lead.
Convening and facilitating seminars for Master and Doctoral students at the Centre for
Anthropological Research (CfAR); advising research students on qualitative research
methodologies and related aspects; disseminating research and popularising CfAR
through participating at conferences, workshops and seminars, and initiating strategic
partnerships with external organisations.
2008 [Jul –Sept 2012
Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, South
Doctoral Candidate & Student
Duties and expected deliverables include:
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During the first 24 months, I worked full time on the doctoral research degree
2005 [Jan – Jun 2008] Ministry of Justice, Community Service Rehabilitation Programme,
Zimbabwe [Harare] – Community Service Officer [Social Work
Specialist] (Full-time)
Duties and expected deliverables Include:
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Conducting casework with convicted adult offenders, including assessing their suitability
of a non-jail community service sentence, and compiling pre-sentencing reports in order
to advice Magistrates as to whether an offender deserves a non-custodial sentence.
In the case of child offenders, conducting an investigation into the child’s family history,
psychosocial conditions as well as other evaluations.
Conducting risk assessment to ascertain whether the offender poses a threat to the public
if given a non-custodial sentence.
Managing and enforcing community service orders made by the courts & supervising
offenders doing community service at public institutions.
Designing and delivering specialist interventions to support personal change of the
offender’s attitudes and behaviours, while linking the offender to further resources
where relevant.
Providing specialist reports in court and attending court to testify about the contents of
the report.
Liaising with heads of public institutions where offenders work un-paid hours and
organising Greater Harare Community Service Provincial Stakeholder meetings.
The work involved a lot of interviews, report writing, meticulous record keeping and
community engagement.
Contributing to the on-going improvements to the management systems of Zimbabwe’s
community service rehabilitation programme in Harare including the stakeholder
participation system
SUMMARY OF DEGREE QUALIFICATIONS
Doctorate in Social Work (Research): 2008 to 2012 at the Department of Social Work, University
of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Title of Thesis: Zimbabwean Economic Migrants in Johannesburg: Transnationality and its
Implications for Social Policy.
Status:
Completed with a Pass
Master of Science Social Ecology (Course work & Research): 2005 to 2007 at the Centre for
Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Title of Thesis: Institutions, institutional linkages and sustainable water resources management:
A case of Zimbabwe’s Mazowe Catchment.
Status:
Completed with Merit (Cum Laude).
Bachelor of Social Work Honours (Course work & Research): 2000 to 2004 at the School of Social
Work, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Relevant Modules include “Research Methods”; “Project Planning and
Management”.
Status:
Completed with an Upper Second Class.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
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Certificate of Training and Service (Post-graduate Writing Fellow): 2013 at the University of
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Status:
Training and service completed.
Certificate of Training (Institute on Global Environmental Change): 2007 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft,
The Netherlands.
Status:
Training compeleted.
Certificate of Attendance (Course on Wetlands Ecology and Managenent): 2007 at HOORC,
University of Botswana, Botswana.
Status:
Training completed.
Cerificate of Registration (General Social Care Council, No. 1128804): United Kingdom.
Certificate of Registration (Council of Social Workers, No. 0717/15): Zimbabwe.
CURRENT RESEARCH & OTHER RELEVANT EXPERTISE
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A UNICEF-funded project entitled, “Birth Registration and Child-Sensitive Social
Protection: A case of Bindura” (USD9000).
A project funded by the University of Johannesburg entitled, “Advocacy in Zimbabwe’s
Civil Society: Discourse, Politics and Development Practice” (USD 9300).
I review journal manuscripts for internationally renowned journals including International
Social Work Journal and Migration Letters, Migration Letters, Crtical and Radical Social
Work.
I review and assess project proposals for Danida Fellowship Centre.
I coach students on aspects of research and research writing and academics writing.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Chereni, A. (2014). A methodological approach and conceptual tools for studying migrant
belongings in African cities: A case of Zimbabweans in Johannesburg. Forum: Qualitative
Social Research, Vol. 15 Art. 6. Accessible at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114fqs140163
2. Chereni, A. (2014). Doing fieldwork with transnational families in an unstructured
environment: Issues and challenges for beneficent research. International Social Work.
Doi: 10.1177/0020872813508575
3. Chereni, A. (2014). “The more things change the more they stay the same”: Decisionmaking in Zimbabwean transnational families. Migration Letters, 11(3), 341-252.
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4. Chereni, A. (2014). A methodological approach and conceptual tools for studying migrant
belongings in African cities: A case of Zimbabweans in Johannesburg. Historical Social
Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 39(4), 293-328
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Chereni, A. (2014). Positionality and collaboration in fieldwork: Insights from research
with co-nationals living abroad. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 15(3), Art. 11,
Accessible at http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1403111
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Chereni, A. (2014). Counting the Costs: Reflections on Personal Vulnerability in Debates
on the Migration-Development Nexus. BUWA! A Journal on African Women's Experiences,
46-49.
7. Chereni, A., & Palmary, I. (2010). Social development and migration in Southern Africa:
Directions for further research in the region. The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher,
22(1), 1-16.
8. Chereni, A. (2007). The problem of institutional fit in integrated water resources
management: A case of Zimbabwe’s Mazowe Catchment. Physics and Chemistry of the
Earth, 32, 1246-1256.
9. Chereni, A. (2015). Fathering and gender transformation in Zimbabwean transnational
families. Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
10. Chereni, A. (2015). Advocacy in the South African social welfare sector: Current social
work research and possible future directions. International Social Work. DOI:
10.1177/0020872813508575.
11. Chereni, A. (In print). “You become two in one”: Women’s representations of
responsibility and emotional vulnerability in Zimbabwean father-away families.
International Social Work.
Peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in Review
1. Chereni, A. (Submitted in 2014). “Within the borders but not really in South Africa”:
Narratives of belonging, home and return among Zimbabweans in Johannesburg.
Afrika Focus. Article in review.
MONOGRAPHS & TECHNICAL REPORTS
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Stewart, R., Van Rooyen, C., Korth M., Chereni, A., Da Silva, N., & De Wet T. (2012). Do
micro-credit, micro-savings and micro-leasing serve as effective financial inclusion
interventions enabling poor people, and especially women, to engage in meaningful
economic opportunities in Low and Middle Income Countries. EPPI Centre, Institute of
Education. Retrieve from: http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/Output/191007/Default.aspx
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2. Chereni, A., & Mahati, S. (2014). South Africa’s response to orphaned and vulnerable
children (OVC). A technical report to be published as an E-book, prepared for Partnership
for Child Development, NEPAD, and Imperial College, United Kingdom.
3. Chereni, A., & Mahati, S. (2014). South Africa’s response to orphaned and vulnerable
children (OVC). A summary of the above technical report to be published as a policy brief,
prepared for Partnership for Child Development, NEPAD, and Imperial College, United
Kingdom. Available at: http://hgsf-global.org/en/component/docman/doc_details/406extended-review-situation-analysis-of-south-africas-response-to-orphans-andvulnerable-children
4. Phaswana, E., & Chereni, A. (2013). A review of Legislation, Policies and Institutions
related to Youth Development in South Africa. A technical input report to the 20-year
Review being led by The Presidency, South Africa.
MOST RECENT CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PARTICPATIONS
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British Council Workshop: Violence against women and children in diverse contexts,
Johannesburg, South Africa. Paper Presentation: “Implications of intra-family dynamics in
migrant families for policy discourses on migration and development.” 3-6 March 2015.
I.N.T.E.G.R.A.T.I.O.N 2.0 Conference in Migration Studies, Bremen, Germany. Poster
presentation: ‘“My home church”: Zimbabwean migrants’ practices of remaking home in
a context of movement.” 22nd to 25th February 2012.
Third Student Conference of the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Scholarship in
Migration Studies – “Settling into Motion”; Berlin, Germany; Paper Presentation: “Within
the Borders But not Really in South Africa”: Home and Belonging among Zimbabwean
Transnational Migrants in Johannesburg.” 27th April to 2nd May 2011.
Migration and the Global City Conference, 2010 Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada; Migration in southern Africa: Paper Presentation: “What a perspective of migrant
transnationalism can make visible.”28th to 31st October 2010.
Global South Workshop 5, The Graduate Institute, Geneva; Paper presentation:
“Approaches and tools for studying migrant belongings in African cities: A case of
Zimbabweans in Johannesburg.” 4th to 8th October, 2010.
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REFEREES
Mr Noah Mudenda
Relationship: Professional, Former Collage Mate.
Designation & contact details:
Mr Noah Mudenda
REGISTRAR/CEO
Council of Social Workers
129 Rhodesville Avenue Highlands
Harare
Tel: +263 4 794119
Email: registrarcswzim@gmail.com
Dr. T. Chakarisa-Nhenga (PhD)
Relationship: Professional
Designation & Contact Details
Coordinator, Child-Sensitive Social Policy
Programme
Women’s University in Africa
No. 188 Sam Nujoma St
Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
Phone: 263 4 332131/2/5
Cell: +263 775 530 992
Email: tchakarisa@wua.ac.zw;
cssp@wua.ac.zw
Prof. Edwell Kaseke (PhD)
Relationship:
Professional,
Mentor.
Designation & contact details:
Professor of Social Work
Head, Department of Social Work
University of the Witwatersrand
Umthombo Building, Basement,
Office No. U-SW8, East Campus
Tel: + 27 (0)11 7174 477
Email: Edwell.Kaseke@wits.ac.za