Ntombifuthi Nzimande

Dr Ntombifuthi Nzimande is a lecturer within the Department of Geography at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. She received her Bachelors of Social Sciences in Geography and Environmental Management, Bachelor of Science (Honours), and Masters of Science qualifications from UKZN, and her Doctoral in Earth Sciences from the University of Szeged (summa cum laude). Ntombifuthi has recently completed her studies in Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education also from UKZN. Her research interests are multidisciplinary - cutting across geography, environmental education, disaster management.  She is currently based at the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA) at the University of Nairobi, as an ARUA/Carnegie-Mastercard Early Career Research Fellow. 

She has steadily grown her research productivity while consolidating a multidisciplinary niche that weaves indigenous and local knowledges (LIKS), green campuses and urban studies in the Global South. Specifically, I examine how local perceptions and geospatial evidence inform the design of resilient and socially just communities, a focus reflected in her research and in the postgraduate students she supervise. Therefore, in an effort of maintaining coherence while being flexible and focused on my niche statement above, I consistently publish and supervise research within the following sub-themes.

Dr Nzimande’s work appears in reputable outlets such as Cogent Social Sciences, SAGE Open, the Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, the Hungarian Geographical Bulletin amongst other, while also having reviewed for local and international journals including Land, the Hungarian Geographical Bulletin and the Journal of Geography Education in Africa.