Overview

Melody Kuziwa Jombe is a Deputy Program Director for Business School: WYA With Year Abroad and Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Exeter Business School.  Melody brings a wide range of knowledge from corporate business having worked in FMCG, Media and Market research industries. Before joining Exeter, Melody was an academic reviewer for Southern New Hampshire (Gem Hub), an initiative that focuses on expanding tertiary education to the most vulnerable and under resourced groups.

Melody is currently a PhD candidate with the University of Pretoria. Her doctoral thesis incorporates a critical incident technique in identifying the causal attributions of venture distress.

100 Black Women Professors Now Programme (2023) Cohort

Nationality: Zimbabwean 

X handle: @thee_academicK

Qualifications

BBA (UNISA), BCom Hons cum laude (UNISA), MPhil Strategic Management ( University of Pretoria), PhD Candidate Business Management (University of Pretoria)

Links

• LinkedIn profile

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Research

Research interests

•   Turnaround management
•   Restructuring
•  Organisational Change

Publications: Direct and Indirect Impacts of Business  Rescue on Employment

Research projects

Currently working on causal attribution of venture distress using a Critical Incident Technique.

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External Engagement and Impact

Media Coverage

BBC Devon Interviews: BBC Interview: https://t.co/BzIWTt4YUc 

Women’s Higher Education Network (WHEN)100 Black Women Professors NOW Program 100 BWPN: Academic Cohort (mykajabi.com)

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Teaching

BEM 3060- Managing Entrepreneurially

BEMM 116- Principles of International Business

Modules

2023/24

• BEMM116 - Principles of International Business

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