Department of Politics and International Studies

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Department
Department of Politics and International Studies
Qualifications
Innocent holds an MSc in African Studies from University of Oxford.
Subject
Politics
Email address
694173@soas.ac.u
Thesis title
Youth, Politics and Participation in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Highfield Suburb, Harare
Internal Supervisors
Dr Alastair Fraser

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Innocent holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford. 

The Oxford course, hinged on an interdisciplinary approach combining political science and history, enhanced his research and policy analysis, including the politics of researching and writing on Africa. Additionally, he has a strong foundation in development and economics as he has studied for an MSc in Development Studies and a BSc in Agricultural Economics. 

Further qualifications include a Post-graduate Diploma in Children, Youth and Development from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Netherlands. He also holds a professional qualification in Monitoring and Evaluation, as he attained a Post Graduate Executive Certificate in Programme and Project Monitoring and Evaluation from the University of Zimbabwe.  

His doctoral thesis explores different forms of youth political participation in two urban case locations to assess the extent of (dis)engagement, violence, and civil action and to understand what drives varying political attitudes and behaviour over time. The thesis will help to understand the rationale behind individual and group choices to mobilise politically and to engage with political parties and other governance structures and processes or not to do so and to explain how these rationales change over time. 

Innocent has worked as a researcher with the World Bank Group, with about seven years of experience supporting cross-cutting fields that include Poverty, Agriculture, Governance, Social Development and Disaster Risk Management.  Innocent once worked as a Research and Policy Advisor at Pact Zimbabwe, an international donor and capacity development organisation that provides financial and technical support to CSOs in Zimbabwe. 

As a result, he gained expertise in delivering weekly political and electoral analysis for international development partners and using this data to assess programmatic performance by CSO partners, including achievements, factors impeding progress and determining the effectiveness and efficiencies of programs given the prevailing fluid political environment. 

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  • African Politics
  • Youth
  • Governance
  • Elections
  • Social Development
  • Development Economics

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Email
694173@soas.ac.u

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