MUAST Pro Vice Chancellor

Personal Background

Professor Mpofu- Hamadziripi is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics with a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oslo, Norway. She has over 26 years of experience in university teaching, training, research and administration. Professor Mpofu-Hamadziripi has been the substantive Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology since July 2021. Prior to joining MUAST, she was the Director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Chinhoyi University of Technology (April 2011 – December 2019) and a Research Fellow at the University of Zimbabwe (April 2000 – March 2011). Professor Mpofu-Hamadziripi has over 35 publications in the form of books, dictionaries, journal papers and book chapters. She is an active collaborative researcher who has been awarded several externally funded research grants.

Professor Mpofu-Hamadziripi is the Deputy Chairperson of the Kushinga Phikelela Agricultural College Advisory Board and a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences - College of Social Sciences. She was recently appointed a Research Lead Consultant for the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) Project titled, Exploring the incentives for and barriers to conducting societally impactful research in the Southern African Development Community, July 2024 – May 2025. In addition, she is an Honorary Research Professor in the National Languages Institute of the Midlands State University. She is also a trained peer reviewer for the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE).