Ms Celina Kafute Awala

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.

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

• De Villiers, S., Christensen, Å., Tjipetekera, C., Delgado, G., Mwando, S., Nghitevelekwa, R., ... & Katjiua, M. (2019). Land governance in Namibia. In Land Governance in Southern Africa Symposium, Windhoek: http://landsymposium.nust.na/sites/default/files/2019-08/Land%20Governance%20in%20Namibia%203-4%20September%202019.pdf
• Mabakeng, M. R., CHIGBU, U. E., DE VILLIERS, S., AWALA, C., & CHRISTENSEN, A. Supporting Capacity Development in Land Administration in Namibia: The NUST Experience. https://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2021/papers/ts02.1/TS02.1_mabakeng_de_villiers_et_al_11034.pdf

Newspaper articles

• https://www.namibian.com.na/6215611/archive-read/Geospatial-Data-Sharing-Crucial-for-Digital-Transformation
• https://www.namibian.com.na/188867/archive-read/Towards-a-Spatially-Enabled-Namibia

Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Celina-Awala

Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-zDMAXQAAAAJ&hl=en