Kambidima Wotela
Kambidima Wotela studied demography and population studies for all his degrees. He is a recipient of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation post-doctoral fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation doctoral scholarship, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for his masters’ studies, and the Government of Zambia Bursaries for his undergraduate studies. Kambidima’s facilitation, teaching, and research supervision is based on Prof Sugata Mitra’s approaches and systems thinking principles. He is currently facilitating systems thinking, monitoring and evaluation, as well as research, evaluation, analytical, and quantitative methods at the WITS Graduate School of Governance. He is also supervising masters and doctoral research students in his School. He is also a facilitator on the WITS University-wide post-graduate support, an initiative that facilitates postgraduate research to all WITS students. He has extended this support to other institutions such as Nelson Mandela University, Tshwane University of Technology, University of Fort Hare, University of Zambia, and University of Zululand. Prof. Wotela is currently pursuing two strands of research. First, researching and research reporting, that is, structured approaches to (i.) research conceptualisation, (ii.) theoretical interrogation, (iii.) empirical interrogation, (iv.) empirical implementation and its documentation. This research strand provides for his research students to produce high quality research reports some of which he has co-published with them in various outlets. Second, linking as well as contextualising monitoring and evaluation within development, public policy, leadership, and governance which he has published in accredited journals. He is also his School’s Academic Director, an Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal (AEJ), and an editorial committee member of the Administratio publica Journal. In his spare time, he likes do-it-yourself handy jobs and gardening as well as watching cricket, motor rally, and Formula 1. He does watch football, though for public relations only.