Tapuwa Mwedzi

Mphil/PhD student

Worcester Business School

Contact Details

email: mwet1_23@uni.worc.ac.uk
tel: 0744318900

Tapuwa Mwedzi is a full-time PhD student in the Worcester Business School at the University of Worcester.

Tapuwa’s main research interests are migration, entrepreneurship and minority groups including children, migrants, women, children and the LGBTQIA people. His PhD research concerns precarity amongst forced migrant entrepreneurs in the UK. He is conducting a mixed methods study into the vulnerabilities or insecurities experienced by forced migrant entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom. The aim of the study is to examine precarity as it is experienced by forced migrant entrepreneurs at different stages of the entrepreneurship journey. As part of the objectives, this study will also examine how the migrant entrepreneurs seek to manage the precarities and the support that they need to manage the precarities.

His supervisors are Dr Laila Kasem, Dr Catharine Ross and Dr Robin Bell. Prior to commencing his PhD, Tapuwa worked as a project coordinator for the Lungelo Women’s Organisation in South Africa where his work included women economic empowerment, running workshops with men, women, girls, boys and the LGBTQIA community to alter patriarchal attitudes that are at the core of gender inequalities and inequities. He also worked as a field instructor and part time lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Social Work and Community Development Department. He helped with the development of course content and taught modules such as Diverse Populations which have formed the foundation of his interest in minority groups and sub-groups.