Dr. Ireen Manase Kabembo

Dr. Ireen Manase Kabembo
Lecturer
Researcher
Social Work and Sociology
Email
ireen.kabembo@unza.ac.zm
Research Profiles
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Bio

Lecturer, consultant and researcher at the University of Zambia, Department of Social Work and Sociology. She has a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Lingnan University in Hong Kong, a holder of a Master’s degree in Social Structure and Social Work from Gazi University in Turkey, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Zambia. She is the current Vice-President for the Social Workers' Association of Zambia. Dr. Kabembo is a Practice Researcher with research interests and experience in Disability and Mental Health; Gender and Social Inclusion; Social Policy; Social Protection; Child Protection and Safeguarding; Case Management for children, adolescents, and their families; Family Caregiving; Substance Use Disorders; Community Change and Development; Psychosocial Counselling and care; Climate Change; and Urban Food Value Chains. Dr. Kabembo also has experience and capacities in stakeholder engagements and actor mobilisation processes.


Publications

Publications

Chanda, P., Chirwa, M., Mwale, A. T., Nakazwe, K. C., Kabembo, I. M., & Nkole, B. (2024). Perceived social support and health care spending as moderators in the association of traditional bullying perpetration with traditional bullying and cyberbullying victimisation among adolescents in 27 European countries: A multilevel cross-national study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 21(7), 863.

Kabembo, I. M. (2024). Forgone healthcare for medically vulnerable groups during the pandemic era: experiences of family caregivers of young adults with substance use disorders in Zambia. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1250608.

KABEMBO, I. M. (2024). Lived experiences, perceptions, and caregiving trajectories of family caregivers of youth with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in Zambia.

Kabembo, I. (2023, June). Who Will Take Care of My Child When I Die? a Skeptical Engagement with Family Caregivers of Youth with Substance Use Disorders in Zambia. In XX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies.

Research interests

Research Interests

  1. Disability and Mental Health,
  2. Social Stratification,
  3. Social Protection,
  4. Gender and Development
  5. Governance of Food Loss and Waste
  6. Social Policy
  7. Qualitative Social Research.


Projects and Grants

In 2018 Develop modules and conduct training of trainers (tot) for community development assistants, teaching staff & community health assistants, tutors in case management – Save the Children International

With Patrick Chanda and Mundia Libati, bid and won a consultancy (worth K218,000) for Save the Children International (the Agency) to develop modules and conduct training of trainers (TOT) for Community Development Assistants (CDA) Teaching Staff & Community Health Assistants (CHA) Tutors in Case Management for Vulnerable Children, Adolescents and families affected by HIV and AIDS from the period.