Academic Research Centre

Leading in quality research

Research Training

Research
Training

Doctoral Thesis Support

Doctoral Thesis
Support

Commissioned Research

Commissioned
Research

Research Journal

Research
Journal


Meet Our Team

OUR TEAM

Prof Charles Nherera

Prof Charles Nherera

Founder & Executive Director

Founding Vice Chancellor of the Chinhoyi University of Technology and former Pro Vice Chancellor of the Women's University in Africa. Full-time Professor at the University of Zimbabwe.
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Dr Tendai Nhenga-Chakarisa

Dr Tendai Nhenga-Chakarisa

Co-Founder & Non-Executive Deputy Director

Director of the Child Rights Research Centre and Senior Lecturer at Africa University (an AU-UNICEF joint venture).
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Comm Andrew Chigovera

Comm Andrew Chigovera

Legal Advisory Board Member

Chairperson of the Governing Council of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS). Active consultant and trainer. Former Attorney General.
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Prof Peter Dzvimbo

Prof Peter Dzvimbo

Academic Advisory Board Member

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Research) at the Vaal University of Technology in South Africa. Founding Executive Dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa
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Dr Muir Houston

Dr Muir Houston

Academic Advisory Board Member

Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and a member of the SJPLE Research Group at the University of Glasgow. Chair of the College of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee.
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Prof Francis Machingura

Prof Francis Machingura

Academic Advisory Board Member

Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Religious Education at the University of Zimbabwe. Chairperson of the Department of Curriculum and Arts Education.
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Prof Peter Mbati

Prof Peter Mbati

Academic Advisory Board Member

Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Quality Assurance at Botho University in Botswana. Serves on the Executive Boards of RUFORUM and the AAU. Chairs the Higher Education and Leadership Management programme of Universities South Africa.
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Prof Prisca Mugabe

Prof Prisca Mugabe

Academic Advisory Board Member

Associate Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Animal Production, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe. Principal investigator of research projects funded by IDRC, British Council/DfID, CIDA, CIRAD and ACIAR.
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Prof Michael Osborne

Prof Michael Osborne

Academic Advisory Board Member

Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning at the University of Glasgow and Director of Research within the School of Education.
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Prof Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

Prof Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

Academic Advisory Board Member

Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor at North-West University in South Africa.
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Prof Russell Rimmer

Prof Russell Rimmer

Academic Advisory Board Member

Emeritus Professor, Queen Margaret University. Former Associate Dean at QMU, Head of Division and Professor at University of West of Scotland, Director of the UWS Executive MBA programme, and Deputy Head of School of Computing and Mathematics at Deakin University in Australia.
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ABOUT ARC

Background

The Academic Research Centre (ARC) arises from observations made by the Founders, Professor Nherera and Dr Chakarisa over a period of time, regarding the growing need to enhance academic research capacity across all disciplines in Zimbabwe, the whole Southern Africa Development Community Region and indeed internationally. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, it is widely acknowledged that with the exception of South Africa, research output is relatively low, as evident from the limited number of publications by scholars in comparison to output from other global regions. Yet, research has become necessary in the increasingly competitive knowledge based global economy in which policies and development strategies need to be backed by empirical and other research evidence. The need to develop high level local research capacity has become more and more apparent in both the public and private sectors. Post-graduate qualifications have become the normal requirement in middle to senior level work situations which are growing in complexity and competitiveness. In Zimbabwe for instance, all academic staff in universities are required to hold or at least to be well on their way towards acquiring a minimum of Doctoral qualifications by 2020. Given the current low proportion of holders of such qualifications in almost all universities in the country, hundreds of lecturers have embarked on their Doctoral studies through local institutions or foreign ones. The current capacity of local universities to enroll Doctoral candidates is far lower than the demand exerted by this call for higher qualifications. Consequently, many aspiring candidates fail to enroll while a lot of those enrolled either locally or with foreign institutions do not seem to get adequate research training and supervisory support, resulting in many of them taking unnecessarily long to complete their studies. The ARC therefore endeavours to contribute towards the enhancement of research capacity at all levels and get involved in contributing towards research based policies and strategies in Zimbabwe, the SADC Region, Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. It aims to achieve this through either undertaking research projects in response to calls for proposals or by capacitating potential researchers, including the development of a bigger pool of Doctoral qualification holders.

Vision

The Vision of the Academic Research Centre is to be an international leading centre in interdisciplinary academic research.

Mission

The Mission of the Academic Research Centre is to become an international centre of excellence in interdisciplinary academic research and scholarship that impacts on policy and practice. The Centre endeavours to provide top-class research training to help accelerate the completion rates of Doctoral candidates and assist academics and other scholars increase their output of quality research and other scholarly publications.

Objectives

  • Provide postgraduate research support
  • Facilitate application for registration and supervision
  • Facilitate applications for scholarships and research grants
  • Undertake research
  • Facilitate Ethics approval
  • Manage researches projects
  • Run research conferences, research training workshops and seminars
  • Establish a postgraduate research drop-in centre
  • Publish and disseminate research output
  • Undertake and facilitate collaborative research
  • Facilitation of foreign researchers applications to carry out local researches
  • Run public lectures
  • Training in research-based policy formulation and analysis
  • Publish policy briefs

Other objects of general public utility:

  • The Academic Research Centre (ARC) publishes an open access interdisciplinary research journal known as the Journal of Interdisciplinary Academic Research (JIAR) to promote scholarship across all disciplines and promote academic and professional collaboration to provide wholesome research based solutions for public utility.
  • Research training provided by ARC is intended to enhance scholarship across disciplines and provide research based policy briefs that demystify research output for policy-makers, development partners and targeted beneficiaries.
  • To undertake any other activity incidental to the above activities but which are not inconsistent with the above objects.