Janestic Mwende TWIKIRIZE, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda.
She holds a PhD in Social Work and Social Development. Dr Twikirize
served as the Vice President of the Association of Schools of Social
Work in Africa (ASSWA) and as a board member of the International
Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) from 2012 to 2018. She is a
member of the editorial board of the journal International Social
Work. She is the East Africa Regional Coordinator of PROSOWO, a
six-member institutional academic partnership project to professionalise
social work in East Africa. She has served as a Visiting Lecturer at
Gothenburg University, Sweden, and University of Stavanger, Norway. Her
research areas and published works focus on social work in Africa,
indigenisation of social work, gender and child rights.
