Dr. Shadreck Matindike
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Shadreck Matindike is a young and dynamic Post-doctoral Researcher at Nelson Mandela University in the Department of Development Studies within the School of Economics, Development and Tourism. He pursued BCom Honours Degree in Economics, BSc Special Honours degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Post graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education, MCom Degree in Economics, MSc Agricultural Informatics & Data Analytics, and a PhD in Development Studies. Shadreck is an emerging multidisciplinary researcher with research interests encompassing development finance & financial inclusion, entrepreneurship (including rural entrepreneurship), cooperatives and cooperating behavior, agriculture, informatics & data analytics, climate issues, gender issues, devolution and public policy and social science research methods. His research skills are enhanced by experience as a Research Intern with UNDP Economics Department, lecturing in universities as well as organizing and coordinating projects for Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET)’s Young Scholars Initiative Cooperatives Working Group.
Selected Post doctoral Fellowship Activities done so far:
Publishing: Focusing on Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship with a bias towards cross cutting issues like cooperatives and digitalization, more than 5 articles were published and several under review.
Teaching: Have taught the following modules – DEVE502 Advanced Development Policy (master’s level), DEV302 Development Policy (undergraduate level) and EIP402 Enterprise Development and Finance (Post graduate diploma level)
Research supervision: 1 PhD student, 2 MA students and 2 Honours students
Selected Conferences and Seminars:
Co-organized and Participated in the following international events:
1. ICA-YSI Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA CCR EU in Leuven, July 10-15, 2023, Leuven, Belgium [In person]
2. Young Scholars Co-operative Law Summer School, August 20-30, 2023, Pula, Croatia [In person]
3. Young Cooperative Leaders and Scholars Symposium, October 1-7, 2023, Washington, United States of America [In person]