Professor Tsitsi Chataika

Tsitsi Chataika is an Associate Professor of inclusive education and disability inclusion in the Department of Educational Foundations, University of Zimbabwe, and a Research and Innovation Manager at the Faculty of Education. She is a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK, and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is also a United Nations Disability Expert Panel Team Member and sits in various inter/national boards as a disability and inclusive education expert. Tsitsi has conducted research and consultancy work in several African countries, Malaysia and the UK. She advocates for inclusive education and disability inclusion so that no learner is left behind. Her research interests revolve around disability and how it intersects with education, childhood studies, development, gender, health, social inclusion, safeguarding, religion, livelihoods, policy, programming, and more. Her many publications include the 2019 Outstanding Global Taylor & Francis Award Winner in the Social Sciences, ‘The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism.’