Celina Kafute Awala

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Staff Details

Office Location: 
Land Management Building, Room 4
Biography: 

Celina joined the Department of Land and Property Sciences in 2014 as a lecturer. She holds a Bachelor of Technology Land Management (Land Information Systems) from Polytechnic of Namibia obtained in 2006, a Master of Science Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation: Governance and Spatial Information Management from University of Twente, Faculty ITC in the Netherlands in 2010 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from Namibia University of Science and Technology in 2017. Celina is currently pursuing a PhD in Spatial Sciences with the Namibia University of Science and Technology.

Qualifications

  • M.Sc. Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation: Governance and Spatial Information Management (Uni.Twente-ITC)
  • PgCert. HE (NUST)
  • B.Tech. Land Management (NUST)

Research Focus Areas

  • Governance and Spatial Data Management
  • Land reform and administration
  • Applications of geospatial data and technologies

Courses Currently Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Land Tenure Management
  • Land Policies and Institutions
  • Governance and Spatial Information Management
  • Information Systems Law
  • Coordinated and supervised undergraduate research projects
  • Work Integrated Learning

Postgraduate

  • Supervised Honors Mini-thesis

Community Development Activities

  • Member of the National Land Cover Classification Standards and Alternative Team Leader for the Built Environment land cover class, Namibia Statistics Agency (present)
  • Tutorial staff on the Summer School "Environmental and Remote Sensing Data Analysis via Geospatial Technologies in Research and Teaching.  Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (present)

Selected Publications

Non peer-reviewed articles

Newspaper articles

Social Media links

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